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  DUBAI / WAM Expo 2020 Dubai has recorded 8,958,132 visits during its first three months, boosted by a slate of spectacular events across the December festive season and with more world-class sport, music and cultural performances expected in the second half of its six-month run. From October to December 2021, Expo hosted a total of 8,902 government leaders, including ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Reach Campaign announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the UAE’s leading health insurer, the National Health Insurance Company – Daman. As a founding partner, Daman pledged support over a three-year period, joining Reach’s strategic partner, the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), in an effort to eliminate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), ...

  Bloomberg The US was the world’s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas last month for the first time ever, as projects ramped up production and deliveries surged to energy-starved Europe. Output from American facilities edged above Qatar in December due largely to a jump in exports from the Sabine Pass and Freeport facilities, according to ship-tracking data compiled by ...

  Bloomberg Beijing is calling on the world’s nuclear powers to expand discussions on global security to include emerging threats, following a rare multilateral pledge to temper the risks of nuclear war. Fu Cong, director-general of the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s Arms Control Department, told reporters in Beijing on Tuesday that the so-called P5 nations — China, France, Russia, the US ...

  Ajman / WAM The growth rate of the number of economic licences issued by the Department of Economic Development in Ajman (Ajman DED) during the 2021 reached 41 percent, while the number of establishments reached 27,913, and the Labour Resilience Index reached 17 percent. The efforts and initiatives launched by the Ajman DED during the 2021 have resulted in ...

  DUBAI / WAM The UAE Ministry of Culture and Youth has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, for cooperation in culture encompassing antiquities, heritage, arts and libraries. The two countries have agreed to support cultural and creative industries and talented people, exchange knowledge, encourage a ...

  DUBAI / Gulf Time Reem Finance PJSC, a leading company offering financial services across the UAE, announced launching ‘Amala’ program, a unique service to finance hiring domestic workers. The program helps make domestic worker recruitment through Tadbeer centers more attractive. According to the company, this is the first personal finance service offered to the public, as Reem Finance has ...

  Bloomberg Germany and Austria came out strongly against the European Union proposal to classify some natural-gas and nuclear projects as sustainable investments, with both countries accusing the bloc of “greenwashing.” In Berlin, the Greens — who joined Germany’s new ruling coalition following September’s election — criticised the regulatory plan as damaging the credibility of the EU green rulebook, known ...

  Bloomberg In the days before Christmas, US officials in Boston unveiled insider trading charges against a Russian tech tycoon they had been pursuing for months. They accused Vladislav Klyushin, who’d been extradited from Switzerland on Dec. 18, of illegally making tens of millions of dollars trading on hacked corporate-earnings information. Yet as authorities laid out their securities fraud case, ...

  Bloomberg Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok resigned, saying that attempts to share power between the military and civilians had failed as deadly protests continued to rage against October’s coup. Without nationwide consensus on the way forward, the North African country risks sliding into chaos, Hamdok said in a televised address. His resignation, which had been expected for more than ...