July, 2019

• 21 July

  Chinese culture an integral part of global culture

  ABU DHABI / WAM Chinese culture and heritage is an integral part of global culture, said Noura bint Mohammed Al Kaabi, Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development. She went on to note that cultural ties between the UAE and China witnessing significant growth, in light of strategic partnership initiatives between the two countries. In an interview with the Emirates News ...

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• 21 July

  UAE to become a shining pearl along Belt and Road

  

  BEIJING / WAM The UAE “will become a shining pearl along the Belt and Road,” a senior Chinese official said on Sunday, as His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, started his state visit to China. Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed’s visit to China “will go ...

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• 21 July

  Senegalese president lauds ties with UAE

  

  DAKAR / WAM President Macky Sall of Senegal welcomed an official UAE delegation led by Hussain Jasim Al Nowais, Chairman of the Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development (KFED) to the Senegalese capital, Dakar. During the delegation’s visit, President Sall praised the strong ties and friendly relations between his country and the UAE. He also expressed his country’s keenness towards supporting ...

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• 21 July

  UAE, Gambia sign pact on employment practices

  ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE and Gambia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to reinforce their cooperation in implementing the best employment practices and regulating temporary contractual work related to Gambian employees in the UAE. The MoU was signed by Nasser bin Thani Al Hamli, Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation, and Mamadou Tangara, Minister for Foreign Affairs, International ...

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• 21 July

  UAE to host economic, trade, investment forum in Beijing

  Beijing / WAM The UAE will host an Economic, Investment and Trade Forum in Beijing on Monday. Celebrating the 35th anniversary of the close relations between the two countries, the event will promote cooperation for future generations, inspired by the bilateral strategic partnership. The forum during the three-day China visit of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown ...

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• 21 July

  Biggest US offshore wind power deals inked

  

  Bloomberg New York has signed the biggest-ever deals for offshore wind power in US history, a key part of the state’s plan to get all of its power from emissions-free sources by 2040. Governor Andrew Cuomo awarded contracts for two projects off Long Island that will total 1,700 megawatts in capacity. Equinor ASA and a joint venture between Denmark’s Orsted ...

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• 21 July

  Canada gas producers seek break on royalty payments for drillers

  

  Bloomberg Canadian natural gas producers are asking Alberta’s government to give drillers a break on their royalty payments in return for cutting back output during periods of heavy pipeline maintenance, a bid to smooth out the province’s volatile gas market. That would give producers an incentive to dial back their output when capacity on TC Energy Corp.’s Nova Gas Transmission ...

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• 21 July

  Anti-establishment uprising to upend Ukraine parliament

  

  Bloomberg Ukraine’s anti-establishment political turn is poised to accelerate in Sunday’s snap general elections, with ex-comedian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s movement on track to sweep traditional forces out of power. Half a decade after street protests that toppled Russian-backed leader Viktor Yanukovych, Zelenskiy has tapped into voter anger over the lack of progress in flushing dirty officials out of state institutions ...

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• 21 July

  Buhari condemns killings

  Bloomberg Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari condemned attacks that killed 37 people in the Goronyo community in the northern state of Sokoto. “This frequent and large scale killings of poor villagers by gangs of mass murderers must be met with the fiercest force the government can mobilise,” the president said in a statement emailed by his spokesman Garba Shehu, without stating ...

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• 21 July

  Bolton heads to Japan, S Korea as regional tensions escalate

  

  Bloomberg National Security Adviser John Bolton has left for Japan and South Korea as the US faces a range of issues in the region from trade tensions between its two allies to North Korea’s threat to scrap nuclear talks. Bolton “departed for Japan and South Korea to continue conversations with critical allies and friends,” Garrett Marquis, spokesman for the National ...

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