September, 2016

• 14 September

  LASVIT blends elements of light, music and water at Dubai Opera

  

    Emirates Business Dubai Opera is a truly unique venue and the emirate’s first purpose built multi-format performing arts theatre situated in the heart of Downtown Dubai. Designed by Janus Rostock of Atkins, Dubai Opera resembles a traditional dhow boat and all elements of the interior and exterior are in keeping with the heritage of Dubai which revolves largely around ...

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• 14 September

  Majority in UAE vote for complete holiday package

  

    Sharjah / Emirates Business With the holiday season upon us, HolidayMe, a unique website offering on-the-fly customized travel solutions to customers across the Middle East, revealed the findings of its travel survey. The survey which was conducted online with over 1500 HolidayMe customers in the UAE, revealed Maldives (27.1%), Georgia (16.8%) and the United Kingdom (13%) as the top ...

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• 14 September

  Filipinos in UAE see positive change in Philippines

  

    DUBAI / Emirates Business Filipinos in the UAE are very optimistic that the quality of life and the investment environment in their home country are on its way to seeing good improvements. A survey conducted by New Perspective Media (NPM), organisers of the annual Philippine Property and Investment Exhibition (PPIE), showed that a whopping 98 per cent of Filipinos ...

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• 14 September

  Using public cloud to get work done in UAE firms

  

    Gregg Petersen / Emirates Business At almost every conference, event or analyst meeting you attend, you’ll hear someone discuss how your business can benefit from the Operating Expense (OPEX) model, greater agility, and faster deployment speeds offered by the public cloud. But let’s be honest: If you go to your internal IT staff and propose the public cloud, you’ll ...

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• 14 September

  OPEC freeze talks already paying off

  

    Bloomberg Even as speculation builds over whether OPEC will clinch an output deal with Russia this month, their negotiations are already paying off. Hedge funds and other investors reversed their bets on falling oil prices at the fastest pace in five months after producers said they would meet in Algiers, data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission show. ...

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• 14 September

  Oil industry fears more chaos after Colombia rebels disarm

  

    Bloomberg While Colombia’s recent agreement to end 52 years of internal war with its largest insurgent group has been heralded across the globe as a rare victory for peace, the nation’s oil industry fears the deal may increase turmoil, not reduce it. Parts of the accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, will amplify the risk ...

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• 14 September

  Israel to get $38 billion in US military aid over 10 years

  

    WASHINGTON / AP The United States will provide Israel’s military with $38 billion during the next 10 years, officials said, the largest batch of military assistance the U.S. has ever pledged to another country. Following months of behind-the-scenes negotiations, the State Department said the two countries had reached a 10-year agreement, with a signing ceremony planned for Wednesday. The ...

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• 14 September

  China seen investing more in coal power plants

  

    Bloomberg China may be investing too much in coal power, with construction of new plants accelerating at the same time that demand growth for electricity is slowing, the International Energy Agency said. The world’s biggest investor in fossil-fuel generation started more than 70 gigawatts of new coal projects last year and had 200 gigawatts under construction at the end ...

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• 14 September

  Russia may ban Egyptian citrus amid wheat dispute

    MOSCOW / Reuters Russia threatened to ban Egyptian citrus imports on Tuesday, a move that could escalate a trade dispute over exports of Russian wheat to the world’s largest importer of the grain. Moscow said this week it hopes to hold talks with Egypt, its top buyer, over Cairo’s failure to approve Russian wheat shipments since tightening its regulations ...

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• 14 September

  Libya unity govt seeks talks after rival seizes oil ports

  

    Tripoli / AFP The head of Libya’s UN-backed unity government called for urgent talks on Wednesday after forces loyal to a rival administration seized the main eastern oil ports in defiance of world powers. The fighting between the two sides — the first since the unity government started work in the capital Tripoli in March — was the latest ...

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