Dubai / Emirates Business Al Bustan Centre and Residence, the popular hotel-apartment among tourists and businessmen in the heart of Dubai, successfully held a fire drill as part of its commitment in maintaining and securing safety for its in-house guests, residents and employees. The annual drill started when the security fire alarm rang and evacuation took place after. A ...

  Sharjah / WAM American University of Sharjah (AUS) graduates have an excellent reputation among employers in the region and beyond, which testifies to the university’s excellence and strength, said HH Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, and President of American University of Sharjah (AUS) at the AUS Fall 2016 graduation ceremony held ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Montenegro Airlines, the flag carrier of the Republic of Montenegro, have signed a codeshare agreement that provides travellers with enhanced connectivity when flying between Southeast Europe and the Middle East. The agreement will see Etihad Airways placing its “EY” code on Montenegro ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi, Minister of State for Tolerance and Noura bint Mohammed Al Kaabi, Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, have offered condolences to Alexander Efimov, Russian Ambassador to the UAE, on the death of Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov. While visiting the Russian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, Sheikha Lubna ...

  Dubai / WAM The Dubai Government Excellence Program, sponsored by the General Secretariat of the Executive Council of Dubai, organised a forum entitled, “Dubai, a friendly city for people with disabilities”. In attendance at the forum were Abdulla Al Shaibani, Secretary-General of the Executive Council of Dubai, and Chairman of Dubai Government Excellence Program, Ahmed Abdelkareem Jalfaar, Director-General for Community ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Center (ADSIC), recently held a three day workshop with Microsoft at the Shangri-La Hotel – Abu Dhabi. The workshops was attended by IT management, CIOs, CISOs, System Administrators, Identity and Security Engineers from more than 35 government entities with the aim of building capacity and increasing awareness on ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM UAE holidaymakers are putting themselves at increased risk of facing serious financial repercussions by not taking measures to adequately cover themselves in the event of a travel emergency, experts warned. Describing community awareness about travel insurance in the UAE as “probably among the lowest in global markets”, Phil Ashkuri, Head of General Insurance at Nexus Group, ...

  Economists like to tell a possibly apocryphal story about Milton Friedman. The prophet of free markets, visiting an Asian country in the 1960s, witnessed a public-works project that had people making a road with picks and shovels. When he asked why they didn’t use earth-moving machines instead, a local official responded that the goal was to provide people with ...

  Earlier this year, the Thai government announced its desire to create an economy of fresh new businesses through a 20 billion baht ($555 million) fund. Its stated goal was to “increase the number of startups in Thailand to 10,000 by 2018,” Information and Communication Technology Minister Uttama Savanayana was cited as saying in April, according to the Bangkok Post. ...

  President-elect Donald Trump isn’t even in office yet, and he’s already delivered a helpful boost to the economy — the Japanese economy. At the end of a year of gloomy announcements, the Bank of Japan has raised its growth forecast for next year, and Trump deserves much of the credit. The main reason for the BOJ’s improving mood is ...