SHARJAH / WAM HH Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, has ordered that employees of the Sharjah Police General Command (SPGC) and Sharjah Civil Defence Authority (SCDA) be included in the grant of paying the installments of housing loans to Sharjah government employees. This means that the government will now pay the ...

DUBAI / WAM Emirates NBD has taken the lead in the region in offering carbon future contracts trading, fulfilling growing demand from corporations to manage their carbon emissions offsetting and align with the UAE’s Net Zero action plan. The group aims to continue being at the forefront of the rapidly evolving carbon trading landscape in the region, providing clients with ...

SHARJAH / WAM HH Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, wife of HH the Ruler of Sharjah and Chairperson of the Supreme Council for Family Affairs (SCFA), reaffirmed the critical role developmental institutions play in driving the continued growth and prosperity of communities amidst the ever-evolving changes and transformations modern societies encounter. She underscored that these institutions in Sharjah embody ...

DUBAI / WAM Ahmed Mahboob Musabih, Director-General of Dubai Customs and CEO of Ports, Customs, and Free Zone Corporation, announced that Dubai Customs successfully processed 12.3 million customs declarations during the first half of 2023, marking a 10 percent growth compared to the same period last year. With an impressive average of 48 declarations per minute, Dubai Customs’ advanced customs ...

BLOOMBERG President Vladimir Putin told a regional security grouping that Russians were united behind his leadership in his first international appearance since the failed mutiny that posed the greatest threat to his almost quarter-century rule. Putin also thanked leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization “who have expressed support for the actions of the Russian leadership to protect the constitutional order,” ...

BLOOMBERG President Emmanuel Macron was expected to  meet with more than 200 mayors to assess the riots that have rocked France as a massive police deployment led to a continued drop in the level of unrest overnight. French employers’ lobby Medef estimated the cost of violence since the police shooting of Nahel, a 17-year-old of North African descent, at more ...

BLOOMBERG Longer business visas and millions of dollars in green investment aimed at bolstering economic ties capped the first visit to Australia by Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo in three years. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Indonesian leader known as Jokowi discussed boosting cooperation on critical minerals, green manufacturing and security partnerships during their meeting in Sydney on Tuesday. At ...

BLOOMBERG Nato extended Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s by a year as the military alliance confronts Russia’s invasion, while Ukraine pressed forward with its counteroffensive in the country’s east. “In a more dangerous world, our great alliance is more important than ever,” Stoltenberg, whose extension was the third in the Norwegian’s tenure as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s chief, said in ...

BLOOMBERG An energy storage startup backed by Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd is considering a round of fundraising that would value it at as much as 6 billion yuan ($831 million) to fuel further growth amid the global clean-power transition, according to people familiar with the matter. Contemporary Nebula Technology Energy (CNTE) is in talks with financial and strategic investors ...

BLOOMBERG Tesla Inc’s deliveries from China in June increased almost 20% from a year earlier, after repeated price cuts contributed to the company’s record-setting second-quarter sales. The US electric-vehicle maker led by Elon Musk shipped a total of 93,680 cars from its factory in Shanghai in June, preliminary data from China’s Passenger Car Association (PCA) showed. That compares with 78,906 ...