ABU DHABI / WAM The number of Emirati female investors reached 220,000 by the end of the first half of 2018 and the number of shares they hold is about 3.5 billion with a market value of about AED20 billion. Whereas their total trading value (buy + sell) during the year 2017 was around AED5 billion and about AED1.8 billion ...

Dubai / WAM The Federal Government has launched, upon the recommendation of the National Programme for Happiness and Wellbeing and in coordination with the Federal Authority for Government Human Resources (FAHR), the “Back to School” policy, which aims to assist parents working for the government during the start of the new school year, by enabling them to accompany their children ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Customs has increased its efforts to cope with the increasing number of tourists and visitors into the country during Eid al-Adha period. Special arrangements in organising work shifts were made to facilitate trade and passenger traffic. Customer service centres worked 24/7 to ensure best and easiest passenger entry into the country. A total of 1,400 employees ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business International Expo Consults (IEC), organisers of ‘DEAL 2019’ show stated that 61% of the floor space for the upcoming Dubai Entertainment, Amusement, and Leisure (DEAL) 2018 show has already been sold out. DEAL 2019 in its 25th edition would be held from March 25 to 27, 2019 at the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC). With 7 ...

Dubai / WAM Building on the success of the inaugural class of Techstars Dubai in partnership with GINCO, Techstars, GINCO Investments, and Dubai Fut- ure Foundation’s Area 2071 initiative have invited entrepreneurs from around the world to apply to the second class of the accelerator until October 14. The second Dubai programme will continue to focus on businesses, which can ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Real Estate Institute (DREI), the educational arm of Dubai Land Department (DLD), announced the launch of the ‘Harvard Happy Cities’ programme, which will be held on November 11 and 12 at the Institute’s headquarters in DLD. Mahmoud El Burai, CEO of DREI, said, “We are pleased to work with the American-based Harvard School of Executive Education ...

Bloomberg One longstanding US ally still thinks North Korea poses an urgent nuclear threat. Another is steadily increasing economic ties with the regime. And Kim Jong-un is doing his best to exploit the divide. Less than three months after shaking Kim’s hand in Singapore, US President Donald Trump is confronting an increasingly fractured diplomatic landscape as his two key allies—Japan ...

Bloomberg The UK can still make a success of Brexit if it tumbles out of the European Union without a deal, Prime Minister Theresa May said, striking an upbeat tone as the clock ticks down on Britain’s departure from the bloc. Speaking to reporters on the plane as she headed to South Africa on a five-day visit to three African ...

Bloomberg A United Nations report says Myanmar’s top generals should be investigated and prosecuted for committing genocide and war crimes against the Muslim Rohingya minority, raising pressure on the international community to act against the country’s military and civilian government. The UN Human Rights Council-mandated fact-finding mission’s report found Myanmar’s security forces systematically murdered, tortured, sexually assaulted and enslaved civilians, ...

Bloomberg Russia is to hold its biggest military maneuvers since the height of the Cold War next month, mobilising about 300,000 troops and including the participation of thousands of soldiers from China, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said. The Vostok-2018 exercises in Russia’s eastern and central military districts—spanning from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific coast—from September 11-15 will involve almost ...