Dubai / Emirates Business At the Gulf Business Awards 2016, the coveted Banking Business Leader of the Year trophy was bagged by one of the most well-known business men in the UAE and Middle East – His Excellency AbdulAziz Al Ghurair, CEO of the UAE’s and Region’s leading banking group, Mashreq. In its 5th year, the Gulf Business Awards ...

  Dubai / WAM To address cyber security threats in emerging markets, the Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, du, is organising its 3rd Cyber Security Conference on October 9 at Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai. The event, which will bring together eminent national, regional and international personalities and businesses, is aimed at supporting the UAE government in its transformation to a smart government by ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai will host a congress on excellence in cardiac care next month with the participation of regional and international experts. Sponsored by the Gruppo Ospedaliero San Donato, Milan, an Italian group of hospitals, the congress will feature scientific presentations, workshops and interactive discussion sessions. Dr. Francesco Magro, Head of International Development – Middle East for Gruppo San ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business The Dubai Future Accelerators announced on Sunday the companies that were accepted to participate in the 12-week program. With 2,274 applications from 73 countries from all 7 continents and less than 2% of the applicants being selected – this is an incredible start to the Dubai Future Accelerators programme. For 12 weeks, these 30 companies ...

  Nyingchi / AFP China has unveiled a sparkling new hotel as part of its drive to get tens of millions more tourists to visit Tibet, even as critics say the push is slowly eroding the local culture. With a presidential suite that costs $1,000 a night and views over the snow-capped mountains of the Himalayas, the luxury Artel hotel ...

  Bloomberg Takata Corp., the embattled Japanese air-bag supplier that’s put itself up for sale after triggering the auto industry’s biggest safety recall, aims to shortlist two to three candidates by October, according to people familiar with the process. Bidders for Tokyo-based Takata have been asked to submit their proposals by early next week, said the people, who asked not ...

  Seoul / AFP Samsung Electronics said on Sunday it had sold shares it held in four technology companies including US chipmaker Rambus and Japan’s Sharp to free up money and focus on its main business. The South Korean tech giant also sold shares in Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASLM and US hard drive maker Seagate, it said in a ...

  Bloomberg Summer bonuses continue to grow at major Japanese companies, this year rising 1.4 percent on-year to the highest level since 2007, according to Health Ministry data. Bonuses for the 374 companies with available data were on average 843,577 yen ($8,250) this summer, just shy of levels nine years ago when additional compensation was at its highest on record. ...

Bloomberg Federal lawmaker George Christensen has threatened to quit the Liberal-National Party if a proposed tax on foreign workers remains in place, the Courier-Mail reported on its website. He told told locals in his Queensland state electorate before national elections in July that he would quit the governing party if the so-called backpacker tax remained, the Courier-Mail said. “I believe ...

  TOKYO/ AP Eighty-eight places in Japan are going to be designated “animation spots” to encourage visitors to seek out the train stations, school campuses, rural shrines and other fairly everyday places where popular “manga” characters are depicted. Such landmarks number in the tens of thousands, given the popularity and volume of “manga” comics in Japan, but the project aims ...