Sharjah / WAM A total of 50 projects worth AED 250 million were implemented by the Sharjah Department of Public Works (SDPW) across the emirate during the first quarter of 2017, including academic, maritime, environmental, edutainment , and infrastructure projects. The projects fit within the comprehensive developmental strategy adopted by the emirate of Sharjah as part of its vision for ...

  DUBAI / WAM The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) recently led a delegation of UAE business leaders to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to explore trade and investment opportunities within the country’s agricultural sector. Dubai Chamber organised the trade mission in partnership with the UAE Embassy in Uzbekistan, the Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the UAE, the Chamber ...

  DUBAI / WAM The Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA), will host a total of three photography courses for Dubai government employees as part of the organisation’s training programme coinciding with the seventh season of competition, titled, ‘The Moment’. The courses, hosted at the HIPA headquarters in Downtown Dubai, will take place during the ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Standard Chartered Bank has signed a partnership agreement with leading UAE-based business support provider Transguard Group, which will enable the bank to offer its corporate clients a smarter and more convenient cash solution, by integrating ‘smart’ cash deposit machines with Transguard’s cash in transit (CIT) services. Although efficient connectivity has helped online banking and other ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi National Insurance Company (ADNIC), one of the leading regional multi-line insurance providers for corporates and individuals, recently held a Service Leadership Workshop with world-renowned author and consultant Ron Kaufman to enhance customer service productivity at the firm. The Leadership Workshop, held at the Park Rotana in Abu Dhabi, was offered to all ...

  Bloomberg European Union governments threw down the gauntlet to the U.K. ahead of Brexit talks, listing demands Prime Minister Theresa May must satisfy before they will discuss the trade deal she wants and urging her to be more realistic in her expectations. Any doubts about the scale of the task facing Britain in withdrawing from the EU after four ...

  Bloomberg Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte joined China in pleading with the leaders of North Korea and the US to tone down their nuclear brinksmanship, even as he agreed with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that negotiations to end the standoff would be useless. “We have to caution everybody including those who’d give the advice to the two players because ...

  Bloomberg South African businessman Mathews Phosa said he accepted a nomination to stand as president of the ruling African National Congress. Phosa will challenge Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a former chairwoman of the African Union Commission, who are seen as the frontrunners to succeed President Jacob Zuma as the party’s leader at a conference in December. ...

  I was one very lucky kid, wrote retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn in a 2016 memoir about his bumpy childhood in a working-class Rhode Island family. “I was one of those nasty tough kids, hell-bent on breaking rules for the adrenaline rush and hardwired just enough to not care about the consequences.” Flynn described how he was arrested but ...

  For all the ground that traditional socialist parties have lost, the European Union remains a profoundly socialist organization that believes in strong worker rights at the expense of corporations — at least judging from its latest mission statement. The European Commission has presented the final version of the European Pillar of Social Rights, a document in which Commission President ...