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First Saudi-Emirati Coordination Council meet held in Jeddah

JEDDAH / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and President of Saudi Council of Economic and Development Affairs chaired the first meeting ...

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95 Emiratis qualify for next stage to join UAE Astronaut Corps

DUBAI / WAM The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre  announced that 95 out of the 4,022 applicants have been shortlisted for the UAE Astronaut Programme, part of the UAE National Space Programme. It aims to train and prepare a team of Emiratis to be sent to space for various scientific missions. The programme was announced by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed ...

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Gulftainer achieves record productivity

Sharjah / Emirates Business Gulftainer, the world’s largest, privately owned, independent port operator based in UAE, announced that it had recorded gross crane productivity of 32.2 crane moves per hour at its flagship gateway terminal, Sharjah Container Terminal (SCT), in Port Khalid. The milestone feat achieved in April 2018, compares to the industry average of 25 crane moves per hour, ...

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Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong deal to promote, support financial services innovation

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the International Financial Centre in Abu Dhabi, and the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, HK-SFC, have entered into a cooperation agreement to jointly promote and support financial services innovation in the UAE and Hong Kong. The agreement was signed between Philippe Richard, Director of International Affairs of the Financial Services ...

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Adnec celebrates Global Exhibitions Day

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (Adnec) has revealed that it participated in the worldwide celebrations of Global Exhibitions Day (GED) on June 6, highlighting the strategic importance of the MICE industry to the growth of world economies. The GED initiative, which began in 2016, has seen an ever-growing number of participants and is actively supported by ...

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US, China barter on trade gap, ZTE as tariff deadline nears

Bloomberg The US and China continued to haggle over the shape of a deal to fend off an impending trade war, with China offering to boost purchases of American goods and the US finalising a deal to allow China’s ZTE Corp. to resume purchases from American suppliers. Ahead of a mid-June deadline for imposing tariffs on Chinese imports, China has ...

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China smashes steel gangs’ $750mn export scam

Bloomberg China has detained 245 people after a nationwide raid of gangs suspected of illegally selling more than 2.4 million metric tons of steel scrap to buyers across Southeast Asia. Chinese authorities carried out multiple raids starting after an investigation into unusual activity unearthed a network that was shipping scrap without fully paying the 40 percent export duty, the General ...

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Brexit trade threat triggers retail, pharma workaround strategy

Bloomberg Companies facing the potential threat of tariffs and other trade barriers after Brexit are stepping up contingency planning, with some retailers creating new sites in continental Europe to avoid snags. US pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. is planning for the possibility of a temporary supply blackout when the UK leaves the European Union and may stockpile as much as ...

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California, carmakers come to agreement on emissions standards

Bloomberg California and the auto industry mostly agree that the state should maintain a role in setting vehicle emissions standards despite Trump admin- istration efforts to curb its authority, according to the head of the California Air Resources Board. “We are now, I think it is fair to say, in a confusing situation,” Mary Nichols said at the Edison Electric ...

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Breakneck pace of US job gains seen getting tougher to sustain

Bloomberg US job growth in May vaulted payroll gains above 1 million in 2018, reaching the milestone a month earlier than in the past two years. Whether the labor market can maintain such a breakneck pace amid a diminishing pool of skilled workers is another question. Employers added 223,000 jobs last month, more than forecast and bringing payroll gains for ...

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