November, 2016

• 19 November

  Bolivian designer exports high-end indigenous fashion

    La Paz/ AFP Centuries ago, Spanish colonizers forced their Bolivian servants to wear the puffy skirts that have come to symbolize the country’s “cholitas,” or indigenous women. Today, one local designer is turning the tables with plans to export high-end cholita fashion — blossoming skirts, bowler hats and intricately woven shawls — to Madrid, Paris and beyond. Fresh off ...

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• 19 November

  Luxury watchmakers are making high-end pieces more affordable

    Bloomberg After years of steady growth and skyrocketing prices, luxury watchmakers are facing slowing sales in 2016, spurring some to introduce elite models for the first time in steel this year (such as Blancpain’s Villeret Quantieme Annuel GMT) and others to deliver complications such as tourbillons and perpetual calendars at more attractive prices. “This is consistent with watch brands ...

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• 19 November

  Pocket watches are the latest men’s fashion craze

  

    Bloomberg Stylish guys love pocket watches – James Dean carried one, while Johnny Depp and Justin Timberlake also have been spotted wearing them. At the Baselworld watch fair in March, they proved popular as well. Hermes debuted a trio from its Arceau Pocket Promenade de Platon collection showcasing the beauty of Grand Feu enamel work; a silk scarf that ...

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• 19 November

  This doctor transplants hope to millions for free

  

    Karachi / AFP Camped on the baking concrete outside a gleaming transplant centre, Karachi’s sick have come from miles around in desperate hope for a last chance at life. There, Dr Adibul Rizvi provides free medical care to hundreds of thousands of people each year, providing a much-needed alternative to Pakistan’s public health sector, which critics dismiss as chaotic, ...

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• 19 November

  Helping them realize their dream

  

    Kiziba / AFP Inside a red-brick building with a tin roof in western Rwanda, a group of young people are hard at work studying for a US-accredited university degree. But these are no ordinary students: they are Congolese refugees for whom such a qualification could spell an escape from stateless limbo. Over the past year, a Rwandan charity called ...

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• 17 November

  UAE Armed Forces sign agreements to increase benefits for service personnel

    ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE Armed Forces signed several memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with a number of local companies to increase the privileges provided to all service people through a social initiative launched earlier this year. The signing of the fifth and the latest batch of MoUs takes the total number of companies and businesses to 220, which ...

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• 17 November

  UAE-India joint team discusses infrastructure investment criteria

    ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE-India Joint Working Group on Infrastructure Investments held its first meeting in Abu Dhabi. The meeting addressed a range of infrastructure investment-related topics of mutual interest. The Working Group was created under an MoU signed between the UAE and India in February 2016 during the state visit to India of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed ...

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• 17 November

  OPEC members to hold ‘informal’ Doha meeting

    ABU DAHBI / AFP At least 11 OPEC members will meet in Doha on Friday for an “informal and consultative meeting,” Qatar’s energy minister Mohammed Saleh al-Sada has confirmed. Speaking on Thursday after the conclusion of a meeting of major gas exporting countries in Doha, Sada said OPEC members would convene in the Qatari capital on Friday morning. “We will ...

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• 17 November

  Khalifa varsity to hold ‘2016 Make It’ to inspire UAE young talents

    ABU DHABI / WAM The ‘2016 Make It’ competition, designed to attract the UAE’s best and brightest young talents into manufacturing and engineering, will be held during Innovation Week at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi on November 21 and at UAE University in Al Ain on November 23. The competition will bring together 13 and 14-year old students from ...

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• 17 November

  ADGM attends business meetings at Singapore FinTech Festival

    ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) announced that it is taking part in the Singapore FinTech Festival. The ADGM team, comprising Richard Teng, Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) and senior management from the Capital Markets, Human Resources and Strategy and Business Affairs departments, are in Singapore to attend the FinTech Festival ...

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