April, 2023

• 30 April

  Marcos vows stronger ties with US ahead of meeting with Biden

  

  BLOOMBERG Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said he is “determined to forge an even stronger relationship” with the US ahead of a meeting with President Joe Biden in Washington. “We will reaffirm our commitment to fostering our long-standing alliance as an instrument of peace and as a catalyst of development in the Asia-Pacific region and the rest of the world,” ...

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• 30 April

  Biden, Modi to meet Pacific leaders in Papua New Guinea

  

  BLOOMBERG US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Papua New Guinea in May to attend a meeting of Pacific leaders, the island nation’s premier said on his government’s official Facebook page. Biden will meet with Papua New Guinea PM James Marape, as well as 18 Pacific Island leaders, who will be in capital Port Moresby ...

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• 30 April

  Kim’s powerful sister slams Joe Biden over nuclear threat

  

  BLOOMBERG The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un slammed US President Joe Biden for making nuclear threats, saying it marked the “dotage of the old” and would be met by a boost in her country’s atomic arsenal. Kim Yo-jong’s comments, released on state media, marks the first official reaction from North Korea to a meeting in Washington between ...

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• 30 April

  Mohamed bin Zayed congratulates Sultan Al Qasimi after Sharjah FC win UAE President’s Cup

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has congratulated H.H. Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, following Sharjah FC’s win of the UAE President’s Cup for the tenth time in the club’s history. The UAE President extended his best wishes in a phone call with ...

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• 30 April

  Microsoft sees AI reshaping search as Google calms investors

  

  BLOOMBERG Alphabet Inc’s Google and Microsoft Corp, whose quarterly earnings each got a boost from their established search and cloud-computing businesses, used their time with investors to emphasize what’s next: artificial intelligence (AI). In their respective earnings calls, the tech giants, which are becoming rivals in the competition for the future of search, offered up starkly different assessments of just ...

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• 30 April

  OpenAI provides users new privacy options for ChatGPT

  

  BLOOMBERG OpenAI is letting people opt to withhold their ChatGPT conversations from use in training the artificial intelligence (AI) company’s models. The move could be a privacy safeguard for people who sometimes share sensitive information with the popular AI chatbot. The startup said that ChatGPT users can now turn off their chat histories by clicking a toggle switch in their ...

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• 30 April

  Maruti Suzuki to nearly double capacity after profit beat

  

  BLOOMBERG Maruti Suzuki India Ltd reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit as car sales recovered and supply chain disruptions eased. It also got in-principle board approval to add capacity of up to 1 million vehicles annually. Net income rose 42% to 26.2 billion rupees ($321 million) in the three months ended on March 31, compared with the year-ago period, the unit ...

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• 30 April

  Emirati brand Carter & White raises AED40 million in their first round of funding

  

  DUBAI / GULF TIME Specialists in luxury clothing and accessories, Emirati brand Carter & White successfully raised AED40 million in their first round of funding “Series A”. The goal of which is to be listed internationally in global financial markets by 2027. The company stated that the recent round of funding will be invested to attract a new segment in ...

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• 29 April

  Mansour bin Zayed crowns Sharjah FC as champion of UAE President’s Cup

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential Court, watched the final match of the UAE President’s Cup at the Mohamed bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi, on Friday. The final match was also watched by H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai. His Highness ...

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• 28 April

  UN council adopts UAE and Japan resolution on Afghan women, girls

  

  NEW YORK / WAM  The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted on Friday a resolution drafted by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Japan, in their capacities as co-penholders on the Afghanistan file, that condemns the Taliban’s decision banning Afghan women from working for the UN in Afghanistan. The resolution was co-sponsored by more than 90 UN member states, ...

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