September, 2019

• 29 September

  Emirates announces its first A380 service to Cairo

  

  Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates will be operating its A380 service to Cairo International Airport on October 2, making it the first scheduled commercial airline to operate an A380 flight into Egypt. With the intent to make the world’s largest commercial passenger jet a part of the airline’s scheduled service to Cairo, this inaugural flight will re-affirm the airport’s infrastructure ...

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• 29 September

  UAE made significant progress in nuclear emergency preparedness

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE has made significant improvements in developing and strengthening its nuclear emergency preparedness and response arrangements for Barakah Nuclear Power Plant since the 2015’s Emergency Preparedness Review (EPREV), Service visit to the UAE, according to experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This came after a five-day follow-up review by IAEA experts to the ...

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• 29 September

  Indian investors showing interest in DP World, Jafza

  

  DUBAI / Emirates Business DP World, UAE Region and Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza) attracted keen interest from small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) at the 16th CII Global SME Business Summit, which was held in New Delhi. As a part of the India – UAE Bridge initiative, the team engaged with Indian SME ...

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• 29 September

  UAE, Russia discuss tech cooperation

  

  MOSCOW / WAM Moscow has hosted the second meeting of the UAE-Russian Industrial, Technological and Scientific Cooperation Team. The meeting was chaired by Dr Mattar Hamed Al Niyadi, Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Energy and Industry, and Alexei Vladimirovic, Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce of Russia. During the meeting, both sides highlighted the importance of the ongoing partnership between ...

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• 29 September

  Southeast Asia’s top phone carrier open to Huawei 5G

  

  Bloomberg The largest Indonesian phone operator said it will wait to see how the spat between US officials and Huawei Technologies Co ends before picking suppliers for 5G wireless equipment. Southeast Asia’s largest market for telecom services is still several years from launching 5G services, allowing PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia time to decide whether to pick Huawei as a supplier, President ...

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• 29 September

  Vedanta seeks approval to repair copper smelter

  

  Bloomberg Vedanta Ltd sought approval from the administration of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu to repair its copper smelter as the plant is “crumbling” after being ordered to remain shut for more than a year. The factory’s cooling towers and pipe ducts have collapsed, Pankaj Kumar, chief executive officer of the unit, Sterlite Copper, said in a phone ...

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• 29 September

  India stimulus leading to deficit at 8-year high

  

  Bloomberg India’s combined fiscal gap, including deficits of states, is seen widening to the highest in about eight years as the government boosts measures to stimulate a slowing economy. The general government deficit is seen at 7.5 percent of gross domestic product in the year to March, according to Fitch Ratings. The combined deficit was around 8 percent in the ...

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• 29 September

  India’s goal on renewables fuels green bond sales

  Bloomberg India’s goal to more than double energy generation from renewable sources is fueling bets that debt offerings from green companies may grow. Adani Green Energy Ltd kicked off a roadshow for a potential dollar bond as Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the more ambitious plans. Indian alternative-energy firms have sold about $3.4 billion of foreign-currency notes in 2019, after ...

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• 29 September

  China stirs up patriotism by sending tourists to Mao’s old haunts

  

  Bloomberg Dressed in a red guard uniform, Gao Hongli and a group of fellow kindergarten principals are laughing and whooping like they’re on a Marxist hen night. They’ve travelled to Jinggang Mountain in Jiangxi province as part of a 100-strong delegation of preschool heads to learn how members of the Communist Party’s first rural “soviet base” lived in the late ...

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• 29 September

  ‘Rain’ helps lower Indonesia hotspots

  Bloomberg Artificial rain created to deal with Indonesia’s massive wildfires has helped significantly lower the number of hotspots across the archipelago, authorities said. The number was down to 136, compared with 1,374 last week, according to the country’s Environment and Forestry Ministry. Since last week, Indonesian agencies have scattered more than 200,000 kilograms of salt for cloud seeding and 317 ...

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