Sharjah / WAM Expo Center Sharjah announced a 7 percent increase in the number of visitors to the various exhibitions and events organised by the Centre during the first quarter of 2017, year on year, with more than 302,474 visitors to the various events and exhibitions coming from around the UAE and beyond. Saif Mohamed Al Midfa, CEO of Expo ...

Ajman / WAM Ajman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) participated in 20th Arab-German Business Forum, organised by the Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in cooperation with the Union of Arab Chambers of Commerce and the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) in Berlin. The forum was attended by Abdullah Al Muwaiji, Chairman of Ajman Chamber, ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Sandooq Al Watan, a national initiative launched by prominent Emirati businessmen to support research projects, has received AED12 million in contributions to help support its mission to build a sustainable knowledge economy as directed by the UAE leadership’s vision for the post-oil era. Of the AED12 million total, AED1 million was pledged by the National Corporation ...

SHARJAH / Emirates Business Sharjah FDI Office (Invest in Sharjah) – an investment entity operating under the Government of Sharjah – is targeting events in two of China’s fastest developing cities in a bid to increase the UAE’s business opportunities with the Far East. The organisation will be exhibiting at the 2017 World Forum for Foreign Direct Investment, which takes ...

DUBAI / WAM Ten new schools set to open in September will give greater choice to parents across all communities in Dubai, the educational quality assurance and regulatory authority of the Government of Dubai, has said. Knowledge and Human Development Authority, says that these schools will offer IB, UK, Indian, US, Canadian and French curricula, and are expected to meet ...

Sharjah / Emirates Business The strengthening of ties and the exchange of expertise with United States (US) bodies were the topics on the table at a high-level meeting conducted by Sharjah Department of Statistics and Community Development (DSCD). Taking place at Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the activity saw the Sharjah government department host a delegation from the US ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Miral’s subsidiary, Farah Experiences, held at Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, the second open day of its Ambassador Program, a training program focused on encouraging Emirati talent to grow in the travel and tourism sector. The open day welcomed 550 Emirati candidates seeking to join the Ambassador Program to gain knowledge and experience in this high ...

Bloomberg China buys more raw materials than any nation, but that doesn’t mean it always gets the best prices. So the government is altering domestic commodity exchanges to bring in more foreign investors and expand the country’s influence on global markets. Two decades of rapid economic growth have left the world’s biggest population consuming more food, energy and metals than ...

Bloomberg A residential plot in Singapore may fetch a record price for a government land sale, with a Chinese consortium putting in the highest bid at S$1 billion ($718 million). Logan Property (Singapore) Co. and Nanshan Group Singapore Co. submitted the highest bid in the Stirling Road land auction, according to a statement from the Urban Redevelopment Authority. The winning ...

Bloomberg Billionaire Beny Steinmetz’s mining company may be asked to pay as much as $1.2 billion to former partner Vale SA after choosing not to attend an arbitration hearing in London in a dispute over one of the world’s richest mineral assets, two people with knowledge of the case said. The decision by Steinmetz’s BSG Resources Ltd. to back out ...