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World’s largest aviation event opens in Dubai

Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, Chief Executive of Emirates Group, Chairman of Dubai Airports and Patron of Airport Show, on Monday opened the 18th edition of the Airport Show in Dubai. Opening the world’s largest annual aviation event, Sheikh Ahmed said that the contribution of the aviation sector ...

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DP World signs deal to develop inland container depot in Egypt

Dubai / WAM A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreed by DP World, Egypt’s Holding Company for Maritime and Land Transport and the Suez Canal Authority is aiming to develop a new Inland Container Depot (ICD) in Egypt’s 6th of October City, a satellite town in the Giza Governorate and part of the urban area of Cairo. The three partners will ...

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Jack Ma’s finance giant faces a China clampdown

Bloomberg There’s no other company on Earth quite like Ant Financial. Spanning online payments, insurance, lending, credit scores, asset management and more, Jack Ma’s Chinese behemoth resembles a mashup of PayPal, Geico, Wells Fargo and Equifax — with a bit of BlackRock thrown in for good measure. Thanks to clever mobile apps and a burgeoning Chinese middle class, Ant oversees ...

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China softens tone on trade after US leaves empty handed

Bloomberg China tried to strike a positive tone after Donald Trump’s trade negotiators left Beijing with no public sign of an agreement, reiterating that the US shouldn’t make unreasonable demands. State media over the weekend offered a somewhat positive assessment of the US trade talks, urging more negotiations while saying the Americans should be “rational and pragmatic.” And in a ...

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Putin starts new term with same premier as foreign tensions grow

Bloomberg Vladimir Putin was sworn in for the fourth time as president, promising Russians an “economic and technological breakthrough” and reappointing his long-serving prime minister amid the deepest standoff with the West in decades. Despite Putin’s rhetoric, there’s little appetite in the Kremlin for real changes, according to senior officials, as the growing tension with the US and European Union ...

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VW diesel probe: CEO receives rare safe-passage deal from US

Bloomberg Not long after US authorities filed sealed charges against Volkswagen AG’s old chief executive officer, they granted the new CEO a rare safe-passage deal. The Justice Department agreement allows Herbert Diess, promoted last month to lead the German automaker, to travel the world freely without fear of being arrested in connection with the US’s diesel-rigging investigation, according to two ...

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German factory orders slump a sign of euro-zone weakness

Bloomberg German factory orders unexpectedly dropped in March and February was revised lower, confirming a weak start to the year in Europe’s largest economy and raising concern over the strength of the euro-area growth. Orders slid 0.9 percent, compared with a median estimate for a 0.5 percent increase in a Bloomberg survey. With February’s figure revised to minus 0.2 percent ...

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Xerox CEO stays in U-turn, setting up Icahn proxy war

Bloomberg A plan to replace the chief executive officer of Xerox Corp. and several directors fell apart over a technicality, setting the stage for a proxy fight in which activist shareholders will seek to improve the terms of a deal to cede control of the iconic US printer company to Japan’s Fujifilm Holdings Corp., or scrap it entirely. In a ...

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UAE president orders $200mn humanitarian aid for Pakistan

ISLAMABAD / WAM The UAE and Pakistan have signed a $200 million cooperation agreement to execute Phase III of the UAE Pakistan Assistance Programme (UAE PAP). The signing comes in implementation of the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, under the support of Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi ...

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Foundation stone laid to build $1.2bn Reem Mall in Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business In presence of His Excellency Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance, as well as a number of senior Abu Dhabi government officials and industry leaders from the private sector, Al Farwaniya Property Developments celebrated laying the foundation stone on Sunday for Reem Mall, the (AED4.41 billion) $1.2 billion project located on Reem ...

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