October, 2016

• 3 October

  Vietnam seizes 300kgs of elephant tusks

    HANOI / AP Vietnamese authorities say they’ve seized 309 kilograms (682 pounds) of elephant tusks illegally imported from Nigeria. A customs official says the tusks were seized at Hanoi’s airport on Saturday. She said on Monday that the cargo had been declared as glass. She spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak to the ...

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• 3 October

  Boosted spending can expand Philippine economy, says WB

  

    MANILA / AP The Philippine economy may grow faster than expected if public infrastructure spending is increased as planned, the World Bank (WB) said on Monday. If that happened, the country’s economic growth may exceed the earlier forecasts of 6.4 percent this year and 6.2 percent in the next two years, the bank said. It also noted some businesses ...

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• 3 October

  OSI Group fined $3.6mn for expired meat

  

    HONG KONG / AP The Chinese units of a former meat supplier for McDonald’s and KFC China have been fined more than $3.6 million for selling expired meat in a fast food safety scandal that erupted two years ago. It’s the latest fallout for OSI Group after a Shanghai TV station reported in 2014 that the company repackaged old ...

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• 3 October

  Darker days for Nigeria as power supply worsens

  

    Lagos / AFP Balogun Shakirat woke up with a start at 3:00 am and put on the light in her workshop in a crowded working class district of Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos. In the following three hours, she was able to sew shirts, trousers and a jacket. Then the electricity supply went off again. “No light the whole day ...

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• 3 October

  Exile hones Liberian flair for design

  

  Monrovia / AFP After almost 200 years of Western influence on their clothes, Liberians are revelling in a style revolution, designing and tailoring their own edgy creations with prints and cuts influenced by their African neighbours. Until 2003, when a peace deal ended 14 years of devastating civil war, tens of thousands of Liberians had been living as refugees in ...

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• 3 October

  ENOC to showcase smart solutions at WETEX 2016

  

      Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) is set to showcase its smart and sustainable solutions; reflecting the Group’s strategy to drive innovation across all its business segments at the Water, Energy, Technology, and Environment Exhibition (WETEX 2016) to be held in Dubai on October 4-6. ENOC’s smart solutions underline the Group’s commitment to environmental ...

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• 3 October

  SellAnyCar.com expands footprints

  

    DUBAI / Emirates Business Marking its third anniversary, the Middle East’s first and largest car buying service is celebrating with three new locations within the United Arab Emirates. Since the UAE has one of the highest automobile turnover rates in the region, it is the ideal location to add to the existing current four locations in Abu Dhabi and ...

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• 3 October

  Gargash joins hands with Al Ahli Football Club to raise funds for the disabled

  

    DUBAI / Emirates Business Gargash Enterprises, the authorized general distributor of Mercedes-Benz in Dubai, Sharjah & Northern Emirates, reaffirms its social commitment yet again by introducing ‘Score for Charity’, a first-of-its-kind initiative in the region. In a unique collaboration with Al Ahli Football Club, Gargash Enterprises has announced a contribution of AED 1,000 for each goal scored by Al ...

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• 3 October

  Red Hat announces Ansible Tower App for Splunk

    DUBAI / Emirates Business Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions has announced the availability of the Ansible Tower App for Splunk, an application that integrates Ansible Tower by Red Hat with Splunk® Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. The application brings the power and variety of Splunk analytics queries to Ansible Tower automation, and ...

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• 3 October

  Abu Dhabi Classics to launch new season

  

    DUBAI / Emirates Business A new season of Abu Dhabi Classics presented by Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) begins this week with the first visit to the emirate by The West Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO) for a night dedicated to 19th Century German composer Richard Wagner. The concert on Thursday, October 6 at Emirates Palace ...

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