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  Dubai / WAM The annual Dubai Investment Forum 2016, organised by the Dubai Investment Development Agency (Dubai FDI), an agency of the Department of Economic Development, was opened on Tuesday. Second in an annual series, the forum brought together public and private sector leaders to trace Dubai’s new growth cycle during which it aims to be among the smartest and ...

Calais / AFP Workers were set to begin demolishing the notorious Calais “Jungle” camp on Tuesday as a second batch of migrants boarded buses under a massive operation to clear the squalid settlement. More than 1,900 left the slum on Monday, ahead of work to tear down the makeshift shelters and eateries in the camp that has become a symbol of ...

  Dubai / WAM Construction will shortly begin on the much anticipated Gate Avenue at DIFC, the new urban premium lifestyle, cultural and entertainment development at the heart of Dubai International Financial Centre that promises to change the face of urban space and living in Dubai. Habtoor Leighton Group (HLG); a leading specialist contractor in the region was awarded the ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Innovations in the transportation industry and its related services from more than 50 local and international companies in 13 countries, are on display at the second edition of the NATRANS Expo, which opened at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre on Tuesday. The exhibition was opened by Abdullah Salem Alkathiri, Director-General of the Federal Transport Authority ...

  Quetta / AFP Pakistan on Tuesday mourned the killing of at least 61 people in a brutal gun and suicide bomb assault on a police academy, the deadliest attack on a security installation in the country’s history. Three gunmen burst into the sprawling academy in the southwest, targeting sleeping quarters home to some 700 recruits in a strike that sent ...

  Bloomberg China’s steel juggernaut is picking up speed closer to home. As governments in Europe and the U.S. limited supplies of Chinese metal they said was dumped on the market, the world’s largest producer is expanding exports to its neighbors in Southeast Asia. A third of all Chinese shipments now end up in countries like Vietnam, Thailand and the ...

  AFP Family patriarch Ratan Tata sought to reassure rattled investors of stability at India’s biggest conglomerate Tuesday after the sudden sacking of chairman Cyrus Mistry sent Tata company shares falling. Seventy-eight-year old Tata has taken interim charge of the sprawling $100 billion tea-to-steel Tata Group, after Mistry was abruptly dumped on Monday evening, four years after being appointed chairman. ...

  Bloomberg The US will capture a higher share of the global wheat market this season as poor weather that’s hurt French and Canadian crops helps the second-largest exporter step up shipments from a 44-year low last season. US wheat exports are forecast to rebound 26 percent in the year that began June 1 to 26.5 million metric tons, according ...

  Bloomberg Europe’s ability to sign trade deals with the rest of the world was thrown into doubt after Belgium’s government said it had failed to persuade its regional parliaments to sign up to a proposed pact between the European Union and Canada. Despite weeks of talks, Belgium Prime Minister Charles Michel said he hadn’t convinced the Socialist-controlled, French-speaking region ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Smart Dubai Government Establishment (SDG), the technology arm of Smart Dubai Office which assumes the responsibility for managing and supervising the implementation of Dubai Government’s electronic and smart transformation, revealed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Emaratech, an IT and software company, to prepare a work plan and conduct a feasibility study ...