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Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, announced the start of the journey toward realising the UAE Centennial 2071 goals. Speaking ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE Soft Power Strategy was launched at the UAE government annual meetings, encompassing a national action plan that seeks to enhance the UAE’s reputation regionally and globally, and to consolidate that country’s position as an economic, cultural and humanitarian leader. H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister of the UAE and Minister ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi witnessed a dramatic double digit increase in the number of hotel guests during August compared to the same period in 2016, helping to drive the total number of guests staying in the emirate to more than 3.1 million for the first eight months of the year. Figures released by the Department of Culture ...

AJMAN / WAM As part of its strategy to highlight Ajman’s unique tourist attractions and promote the emirate at an international level, the Ajman Department of Tourism Development (ADTD), is hosting a 3 city roadshow to Scandinavia which will run until September 29. The roadshow kicks off in Copenhagen, and consists of a delegation from Ajman, including representatives from the ...

DUBAI/ WAM University students across the UAE who believe they have an idea that could make a real difference to society are being urged to apply for a new grant scheme launched on Wednesday by Expo 2020 Dubai’s Expo Live programme. Expo Live has an allocation of $100 million to back projects that offer creative solutions to pressing challenges that ...

Bloomberg ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn closed his party’s conference in Brighton with a call to Prime Minister Theresa May to step aside and an appeal to his followers to prepare to take over the government of Britain. After a four-day conference that has cemented his position as leader of a socialist revival in the UK, Corbyn promised a radical ...

Bloomberg Meituan Dianping, China’s largest group-buying and restaurant reviews service, is said to be close to finalising a deal to raise at least $3 billion from investors including Capital Group, according to people familiar with the matter. The company backed by WeChat-operator Tencent Holdings Ltd. is said to be targeting at least $3 billion at a $28 billion valuation, the ...

­­­­­­­­­­­Bloomberg Alstom SA’s merger with the train-making arm of Siemens AG will mark the end of a bitter rivalry as the European rail industry’s biggest adversaries unite in an effort to fend off the challenge from China and Japan. The ill-tempered contest between Alstom and Siemens has been a feature of the sector for decades and reached boiling point in ...

Bloomberg Uber is testing out a new conciliatory tone in London, where officials said they wouldn’t renew the ride-hailing service’s operating license. It’s going to have ample opportunity to see if that approach will work in the US. San Francisco’s city attorney is investigating whether Uber Technologies Inc. is a public nuisance. In New York, officials are mulling ways to ...

Bloomberg Twitter Inc., struggling to attract new users, will lift its 140-character limit on tweets in an experiment with a small group that may expand to the entire social media platform. The test will let users send tweets with as many as 280 characters. Lengthening the character limit may result in more engaging conversation on the platform, helping its bid ...