July, 2019

• 31 July

  UAE’s agricultural efforts in Yemen’s Socotra hailed

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation has received a thank you letter from the Director-General of the Agriculture and Irrigation Office in Yemen, Fahmi Al-Ghathanim, in which he expressed his appreciation to the Foundation for its conservation efforts in the Socotra archipelago. In the letter, the Yemeni official detailed the UAE’s efforts in the conservation ...

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• 31 July

  Number of Japanese firms in UAE up 23.44% in 6 years

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Japanese companies are making a strong presence in the UAE, with their number increasing 23.44 percent in the past six years, according to a top Japanese diplomat. “The number of Japanese corporations in the UAE has slowly but steadily been increasing; from 273 in 2013 to 337 in 2018,” Akihiko Nakajima, the Japanese Ambassador to the ...

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• 31 July

  Khalifa Fund extends registration deadline for ‘Pitch@Palace UAE’

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development announced that the registration for the third edition of the ‘Pitch@Palace UAE’ competition, aimed at providing Emirati entrepreneurs with an opportunity to pitch their innovative projects before a global audience in Abu Dhabi has now been extended to August 20. Mouza Al Nasri, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Khalifa Fund, emphasised ...

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• 31 July

  N Korea fires missiles, skips meeting in warning to Trump

  

  Bloomberg North Korea greeted US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo’s latest trip to Asia with twin signals of frustration: test-firing missiles and withholding top diplomats from a chance at nuclear talks. Kim Jong-un’s regime fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Wednesday, the South Korean military said, the second such test in less than a week. The launches ...

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• 31 July

  Russia crackdown grows amid Putin rivals’ protest

  

  Bloomberg Russian authorities raided the homes of people involved in a Moscow demonstration, stepping up a crackdown that threatens to be the harshest since officials crushed large-scale protests in 2012. Interior Ministry officers and Federal Security Service agents were searching for information on electronic devices that proved participation in the unauthorised protest or how it was organised, the state-run Tass ...

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• 31 July

  Trump to soon present peace plan to Arab leaders

  Bloomberg US President Donald Trump plans to outline his “deal of the century” Middle East peace plan to Arab leaders at a summit before Israel’s September 17 election, Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported. Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, will invite the leaders to the summit at the Camp David presidential retreat during his swing through the Middle East ...

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• 31 July

  China imposes Taiwan travel ban in warning shot to Tsai

  

  Bloomberg In its latest effort to increase pressure on Taiwan, Beijing said it will suspend a programme that allowed individual tourists from 47 Chinese cities to travel to Taiwan, citing the current state of relations between the two sides. The ban is effective from August 1, according to a statement from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and means that ...

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• 31 July

  HK rioting charges suggest tough response to protesters

  

  Bloomberg Hong Kong’s decision to charge dozens of protesters with a colonial-era rioting charge that carries a 10-year prison term suggested that the government was heeding calls for a tougher response to the unrest. The arrests of 49 people — including 44 on the rioting charge — drew outrage from pro-democracy groups and spurred hundreds of demonstrators to surround a ...

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• 31 July

  Germany, UK appear to diverge over Iran

  Bloomberg The unified European approach to resolving tensions in the Persian Gulf showed signs of strain, with senior German officials warning that the UK may be drifting closer to an American-led operation that had previously been rebuffed by governments in Paris and London. While Germany stands by its resistance to use military forces to protect shipping in the region, Boris ...

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• 31 July

  Trade talks to continue in September in US

  

  Bloomberg China and the US plan to meet again in September to extend trade talks, as the latest round of negotiations in Shanghai ended with signs the sides discussed Chinese purchases of American farm products — a key demand of President Donald Trump. US delegates including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer wrapped up talks with their ...

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