March, 2017

• 16 March

  VP tours Design Days Dubai

    Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, visited on Thursday Design Days, at Madinat Jumeirah. The event is part of Art Dubai Week (Art Dubai). His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid toured the exhibition area where some 50 galleries representing 39 countries are showcasing their ...

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• 16 March

  Emirates unveils new Real Madrid A380 decal

  

    MADRID / WAM Emirates Airline debuted the new Real Madrid decal on its iconic A380, as it made its first touchdown at Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas airport. The decal features some of the club’s world-class players, including Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, Sergio Ramos, Karim Benzema and Marcelo. Visible from both sides of the plane, the bespoke decal covers an area ...

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• 16 March

  Air Arabia begins flights to Baku

  

    SHARJAH / WAM Sharjah-based Air Arabia has launched its inaugural service to Baku, marking the airline’s first entrance into Azerbaijan. An official delegation including Sheikh Fahim Al Qasimi, Executive Chairman of the Department of Government Relations of Sharjah, and Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Hamel Al Qubaisi, UAE Ambassador to Azerbaijan as well as Dashgin Shikarov, Ambassador of Azerbaijan to the ...

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• 16 March

  Maldives a must-see place

  

    Emirates Business For all those who think that Maldives is exclusively a honeymoon destination need to visit Maldives to know that the beautiful islands of Maldives have a lot more to offer. The Maldivian cuisine is worth a try. Milaidhoo Island has opened the first modern Maldivian restaurant in the Maldives, called Ba’theli. It is one of the few ...

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• 16 March

  Baby boxes as cribs gain popularity

  

    TRENTON, NJ / AP Cardboard boxes certainly aren’t new technology. But when they’re linked to a practice that started in Finland decades ago to help babies sleep safely, they’re taking on a new purpose as so-called baby boxes make their way to the U.S. Parents are beginning to take baby boxes home from hospitals along with their newborns. A ...

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• 16 March

  PepsiCo, Coca-Cola in a bind in South Indian state

  

    Bloomberg A potent blend of pride, economic nationalism and mounting concern over water security have the world’s two biggest cola brands in a bind in southern India. Shopkeepers in drought-hit Kerala state decided to promote local brands over Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. beverages after counterparts in neighboring Tamil Nadu boycotted the multinational drinks. While retail groups claim the ...

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• 16 March

  Japan’s power producers next to face China coal pain after steel

  

    Bloomberg First it was Japan’s steelmakers, now it’s the nation’s power producers that are set to pay for China’s coal policies. Japanese utilities may pay at least 29 percent more for annual supplies this year after China’s efforts in 2016 to trim overcapacity led to a more than doubling of spot prices, according to UBS Group AG and Morgan ...

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• 16 March

  China introduces services index to reflect changing economy

  

    Bloomberg China introduced a new indicator for the services sector to better track the vast range of activity from movies to restaurants that now account for more than half of the economy. The services output index rose 8.2 percent in January and February from a year earlier on growth in technology, transportation, and deliveries, the National Bureau of the ...

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• 16 March

  Dutch liberals defeat Wilders’ party in blow to populists

  

    Bloomberg Dutch voters turned out in force to back pro-European parties and help Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s Liberals easily beat off an election challenge by the anti-Islam Freedom Party of Geert Wilders, drawing a line in the sand over the spread of populism. With votes counted in all but one of the country’s 388 municipalities, the Liberal Party had ...

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• 16 March

  Kofi Annan calls on Myanmar to allow access to troubled area

    YANGON/ AP A commission chaired by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has recommended that the government allow aid workers and journalists free access to an area in western Myanmar where security forces are accused of major human rights abuses against the Muslim Rohingya minority. Annan spoke on Thursday in a video shown at a news conference in Yangon, where ...

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