DUBAI / Emirates Business Digital and online businesses have made a splash at this year’s Gulf Capital SME Awards after the list of 2016 winners was revealed by awards organiser MEED. MEED revealed the names of the UAE’s 12 small and medium sized businesses of the year at the Gulf Capital SME Awards 2016 ceremony, held recently at the ...

  Ajman / Emirates Business The Ajman Tourism Development Department (ATDD) delegation returned from a successful four-day trip to Germany with new information and strategies to best attract German travellers into the Emirate. The delegation met ten of the top tour operators in Germany who all expressed positive interests and encouraged the stakeholders to increase the activities and attractions that ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Etihad Airways on Thursday announced the expansion of scheduled services between Abu Dhabi and India as strategic partner Jet Airways unveiled new routes and additional frequencies to further strengthen their partnership in one of the world’s fastest growing aviation markets. From early 2017, the two airlines will expand their services between the United Arab ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business As part of their ‘Be Responsible — Drive Safe’ campaign launched in 2014, the Dubai Chamber Sustainability Network in partnership with RTA and Roadsafetyuae.com, conducted a Road Safety seminar ‘The Role of Leadership in Fleet Safety Management’ at the Chamber premises. The seminar, organised by Dubai Chamber’s Centre for Responsible Business’s Sustainability Network Road Safety ...

  Sharjah / Emirates Business The Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) announced the completion of its preparations for the sixth edition of the Professional Programme, to be held as part of the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF). Taking place at the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry from October 30 to November 1, this key event in the international publishing calendar ...

  Ras Al Khaimah / Emirates Business Its multicultural community is a hallmark of the popular Al Hamra Village neighbourhood in Ras Al Khaimah, as leading market developer Al Hamra Real Estate Development reveals in its latest investor nationality statistics for its flagship community. According to Barry Ebrahimy, Head of Commercial for the company, the established community welcomed investors from ...

  Where are living standards the highest? You might think that’s an easy question to answer. Just take a country’s total income (in the United States, that’s now about $18 trillion) and divide by the nation’s population (U.S.: now about 320 million). The result is per capita income (now about $56,000 for every man, woman and child in America). Compare ...

  With its debts surging and growth sluggish, China has hit on a new strategy to revitalize its ailing economy. It’s the same as the old strategy. Only this time, it won’t work. Earlier this month, China’s State Council released guidelines for a new swap program, in which companies can exchange troubled debt with banks in return for equity. The ...

  Next Tuesday will be the start of open enrollment for Obamacare’s state exchanges, which offer health insurance to the 7 percent of Americans who buy their own coverage. It’s an anxious moment for the program: Enrollment is expected to remain significantly less than originally hoped. Some insurers have pulled out of the exchanges altogether. And those that remain have ...

  Former deputy head of the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority Paul Fisher has made an emphatic remark: Climate change could trigger the world’s next financial crisis. This should ring alarm for the policy makers. Fisher has warned that sudden repricing of assets due to climate change could hugely affect businesses across the globe. His comments come close on ...