Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business UAE is ranked no. 1 for the highest Fiber to the Home (FTTH) penetration in 2016 among all its global counterparts, according to the leading industry body FTTH Council. The council published its annual report recently that highlighted UAE with a coverage of 93.7 percent compared to countries such as Qatar (87.9 percent), Singapore ...

  Sharjah / Emirates Business As part of its strategy to provide the region’s leading sustainable tourist destinations, the Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq), has begun implementing the stunning Kalba Kingfisher Lodge, its latest ground-breaking eco-tourism project, in collaboration with the Sharjah Environment and Protected Areas Authority (EPAA). Shurooq said that the five-star hospitability project, featuring a tented camp ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE has been ranked as one of the world’s largest donor countries in terms of development aid, British Ambassador to the UAE, Philip Parham, has said. He added this has happened in record time. “The UAE and the United Kingdom have a proven track record in aid donations as they have exceeded the goal ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi General Services Company (Musanada) announced that work is progressing as scheduled on the Delma School Project, to be eventually handed over to Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC). This forms part of Musanada’s contribution to achieve the objectives of Abu Dhabi Plan, enhancing the development of a promising generation to engage in serving the ...

  WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange’s revelation last week of the CIA’s arsenal of hacking tools had a misplaced tone of surprise, a bit like Claude Raines’ famous line in “Casablanca”: “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” The hacking community, of which WikiLeaks and the CIA’s cyberwarriors are both aggressive offshoots, has been invading and ...

  Indian mining billionaire Anil Agarwal wins a gold star for boldness. His timing? “Could do better.” During the depths of the mining industry’s debt panic in January 2016, a 2 billion pound ($2.5 billion) investment in London-listed Anglo American Plc would have secured him more than two-thirds of the stock. Today, after a commodity price rebound and Anglo’s deleveraging ...

  When President Donald Trump claimed on Twitter that his predecessor had tapped his phones, he created something of a metaphysical crisis. No one — not the Justice Department, not Congress and least of all the president himself — seemed able to ascertain the truth about the accusation. Now that they’ve had some time to look into it, what do ...

  The American diplomatic dichotomy couldn’t have been starker as far as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s approach towards North Korea is concerned. On the one hand Tillerson said North Korea has nothing to fear from the US or its allies. On the other hand, he suggested that US military action against North Korea was an option. Tillerson is on ...

  BEIJING / AP US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Saturday pushed for closer China-US cooperation on dealing with North Korea’s nuclear program in his first face-to-face talks with top Chinese diplomats. Tillerson’s visit to Beijing followed his remarks in South Korea on Friday in which he warned that pre-emptive military action against North Korea might be necessary if ...

  MOSCOW / AP Russia’s lower house of parliament is launching an investigation into US news media that operate in Russia, a move that comes amid growing suspicion in America of Russian interference. A statement on the website of the chamber, the Duma, does not specify how the investigation would be conducted or what might be done with its results. ...