Dubai / Emirates Business Travel is expected to peak this weekend for Emirates, as the airline expects yet another busy period with visitors passing through Terminal 3 ahead of the spring break holiday. The busiest time for departures will be on March 23 in the morning and continuing all day on March 24-25. With road works and infrastructure enhancements happening ...

Sharjah / Emirates Business Axis Bank, India’s third largest private sector bank, on Sunday opened a representative office in Sharjah. Vipul, Consul General of India in Dubai, inaugurated the representative office. The representative office in Sharjah is the third such Axis Bank office in the UAE after Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The new representative office will engage primarily in promoting ...

DUBAI / WAM The Gulf job market is set to grow at an average rate of nine percent this year, according to research conducted by GulfTalent, an online recruitment portal. The results are based on GulfTalent’s survey of over 1,100 CEOs and executive managers of firms across the GCC. According to survey findings, the biggest factor driving employment growth is ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside oil and gas, on Sunday announced that it recycled over 96 thousand tonnes of waste in 2017, up from over 77 thousand tonnes in 2016. Today is the first Global Recycling Day, which is being marked worldwide to encourage the economic ...

Dubai / Emirates Business A bespoke interior finishing company, Covering Concepts on Sunday announced the launch of their design studio at Dubai Design District with an aim to capture the growing GCC interior fit-out market, valued at approximately $18 billion. Covering Concepts will offer a wide range of premium flooring and wall design solution for both residential and commercial projects. ...

Dubai / Emirates Business International heavyweights in construction machinery will be in Dubai for one week only at The Big 5 Heavy next week, which will run from March 26 – 28 at the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC). With over 300 exhibitors from 30 countries including the biggest brands in the world in its launch edition, The Big 5 ...

Bloomberg Officials reported a high turnout among voters in Russian presidential elections that are expected to hand Vladimir Putin a mandate to rule until 2024 amid an escalating standoff with the West. Opposition activists complained of ballot fraud. The Central Election Commission said turnout across Russia was 59.6 percent at 7 pm in Moscow. The Tass news service reported that ...

Bloomberg Russia’s ambassador to the European Union suggested the nerve agent used to poison a former spy and his daughter may have come from a research lab in the UK and rejected accusations it was made in Russia, according to an interview to be broadcast by the BBC. Ambassador Vladimir Chizhov said in searching for the poison’s source, investigators need ...

Bloomberg Southeast Asian nations and Australia vowed to unite against protectionism, while also using a summit in Sydney to urge North Korea to denuclearise immediately. “We are committed to free and open markets,” the final communique from the first Australia-Asean Special Summit, held in Sydney, said on Sunday. They pledged to resist “all forms of protectionism.” Global markets were rattled ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump and his lawyer fired what may be the first shots in a showdown with Special Counsel Robert Mueller over the future of his investigation into Russian election meddling and Trump’s campaign. The president kept the pressure on early Sunday with a series of Twitter messages assailing Mueller’s investigation, former FBI Director James Comey, and Andrew McCabe, ...