Sharjah / Emirates Business Expo Centre Sharjah, which is spread across 128,000 square metres and houses high-tech exhibition facilities, successfully held a fire and emergency evacuation drill on Wednesday. The drill was aimed at assessing the preparedness and efficiency of the security and safety systems at Expo Centre Sharjah, given that the facility regularly hosts thousands of exhibitors, visitors ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE’s Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) on Wednesday hosted a seminar to discuss the 2011 nuclear accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and the steps taken by the UAE entities to prevent a similar event from happening at the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant, now under construction in the Western Region of Abu ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Al Masaood Automobiles, the exclusive distributor of Infiniti in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain, unveiled the two new Infiniti premium crossovers at an exclusive VIP event in Abu Dhabi. The Infiniti QX60 and QX50 were unveiled at the IREDI (Infiniti Retail Environment Design Initiative) Infiniti Centre at Landmark Tower to more than 80 VIP ...

  KATHMANDU / WAM Bidhya Devi Bhandari, President of Nepal, received HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu. During the meeting, Sheikh Abdullah conveyed the regards of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan to the President of Nepal, wishing her good health and happiness, and more ...

  DUBAI / WAM HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy has chaired the 40th meeting of the council at its headquarters. Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Vice Chairman of the Supreme Council of Energy, attended the meeting. The meeting was also attended by Ahmed Buti Al Muhairbi, Secretary General of the Supreme ...

  DUBAI / WAM Dubai Customs is finely aligned with the wise call of HH President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in declaring this year as the year of reading. Consequently, Dubai Customs launched a series of activities and initiatives in pace with this astute endeavour including the recent “Suggest a Book” undertaking, aimed at encouraging reading as a ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business Dubai Parks and Resorts, set to become the Middle East’s largest integrated theme park destination on its opening in October this year, has announced its participation in this year’s Careers UAE, takes place from May 16-18 at the Dubai World Center, in search of skilled, bright Emirati talent. Job seekers will be interviewed by the ...

  Tokyo / AFP Toyota on Wednesday warned that its annual net profit will fall by about a third as a stronger yen, and a slowdown in Chinese growth and other emerging markets dent its bottom line. The surprise new forecast — which would mark Toyota’s first profit decline in five years — tipped a 1.5 trillion yen ($13.8 billion) ...

  Tokyo / AFP Scandal-stricken Takata said on Wednesday it logged an annual net loss of $120 million, as the company struggles with a massive recall crisis over exploding air bags tied to 13 deaths in the United States and Malaysia. US auto safety regulators last week ordered Takata to recall between 35 million and 40 million airbags installed in ...

  TOKYO / AP Mitsubishi Motors cheated on fuel-efficiency testing for almost every model it sold in Japan in the last 25 years, a report said on Wednesday, fuelling questions about the size of a scandal that has plunged the automaker into crisis. Citing unnamed company sources, Japan’s Asahi newspaper said dozens of models sold in Japan have been affected ...