Dubai / WAM Some 85 small and medium national companies from various business and service sectors in the UAE have participated in the 15th China International Small & Medium Enterprises Fair (CISMEF), which was hosted by Guangzhou, a city in China’s Guangdong Province. The UAE took part as the first Arabian partner of CISMEF with the largest pavilion covering an ...

Dubai / WAM The Dubai Future Academy launched “Insights of the Future”, an initiative that is set to carry out a series of crash course-type sessions, which focus on demystifying the latest technologies by allowing participants to gain a better understanding of various technological trends, enabling them to leverage their skills and better utilise these trends for our ever-changing future. ...

FUJAIRAH / WAM The UAE Armed Forces have continued preparations for the Military Show ‘Union Fortress 4’, which is scheduled to be held on February 2 at the Fujairah Corniche. The Union Fortress 4 will be implemented by main units of ground and air forces, in addition to the Presidential Guard. The aim of this show is to demonstrate the ...

Bloomberg Anwar Ibrahim has emerged as the winner in a district by-election, clearing the way for the formerly jailed leader to become the nation’s eighth prime minister. Anwar, 71, leader of the largest party in the ruling coalition, is set to be inaugurated on Monday after winning 71 percent of votes against six other candidates for a parliament seat, the ...

Bloomberg Moderate Party Leader Ulf Kristersson has urged his center-right coalition allies to help end Sweden’s political gridlock by joining him in a minority government ahead of a Tuesday deadline. Writing in a Facebook post, Kristersson said he had given the other three members of the Alliance a few days to consider whether they “can and want to” join the ...

Bloomberg UK and European Union officials are discussing a new proposal to solve the last major hurdle in Brexit talks and soothe the concerns of Prime Minister Theresa May’s Northern Irish allies, according to diplomats familiar with the situation. Talks are stuck on the issue of the Irish border and a guarantee, or so-called backstop clause in the divorce treaty, ...

Bloomberg Way behind in the opinion polls and struggling to shore up second-round support from other political parties, Fernando Haddad’s presidential campaign has reached crunch point. His Workers’ Party, or PT, had hoped that support for the candidate would start flooding in shortly after the results came out on Sunday night. But their expectation of a broad “democratic front” has ...

Bloomberg Five months after a democratic “velvet revolution” that ousted Armenia’s former rulers, an ex-president with close ties to the Kremlin says he’s returning to politics to challenge the new government. Robert Kocharyan, who’s facing possible imprisonment over the deaths of protesters at the end of his presidency a decade ago, criticized the “revolutionary romanticism” of the authorities under Prime ...

Dubai / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan issued Federal Decretal Law No. (9) of 2018 on public debt, to enable the federal government to issue sovereign bonds, and help the banking sector meet international liquidity rules as soon as they are issued. In addition, the law will enable banks operating in the state to purchase ...

Lisbon / WAM The Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), continued the activities of its official trade mission to Portugal by organising field visits to some of the leading commercial and industrial enterprises in Lisbon, in order to review opportunities of joint cooperation, industrial integration and review best practices. The trade mission also concluded its visit to Portugal with ...