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  PARIS / Reuters Zodiac Aerospace has announced shortening of average delays in aircraft seat production to days rather than months, sending its shares higher in a respite from factory congestion which disrupted airplane deliveries. The French aircraft interiors and systems manufacturer said it was on track to get its seats business back to normal within 18 months and also ...

  Tokyo / Bloomberg As the average age of farmers globally creeps higher and retirement looms, Japan has a solution: Robots and driver-less tractors. The Group-of-Seven agriculture ministers met in Japan’s northern prefecture of Niigata for the first time in seven years to discuss how to meet increasing food demand as aging farmers retire without successors. With the average age ...

New Mexico / DPA While Spaceport America, which claims to be the world’s first commercial spaceport, hasn’t yet launched any tourists into space, ordinary mortals can already tour the site. The futuristic building designed by rockstar architect Norman Foster is located in the middle of the desert in the US state of New Mexico. Here, it is hoped, rich tourists ...

  Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business Kodak Alaris was created on September 3, 2013, by the UK Kodak Pension Plan (KPP) after it had taken over the Kodak Personalised Imaging and Document Imaging businesses from Eastman Kodak Company. Alaris is licenced to use the Kodak brand. Kodak Alaris is driven by the simple belief that ‘we can always find a ...

  Our Correspondent / EMIRATES BUSINESS Officine Panerai, although established in Florence, Italy, has its strong base in UAE as well. The watch brand has created designs which are inspired from the skyline of both Abu Dhabi and Dubai. With two new watches retailed exclusively at Panerai boutiques in The Galleria, Sowwah Square and the Dubai Mall, the brand is ...

  DUBAI / WAM Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, on Saturday inspected the workflow of the final stages of Dubai Parks and Resort project, the largest integrated theme park destination in the Middle East. The project, that cost more than AED10 billion, is spread across 25 million square ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE will be the guest of honour at the Moroccan International Agriculture Fair (SIAM 2016), which will be held in Meknes from April 26 to May 1, under the theme “Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture.” Under the directives of HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs and ...

  NEW YORK / WAM The UAE joined over 175 countries in signing the Paris Climate Agreement during the high-level signing ceremony, convened by the United Nation’s Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, in New York. The ceremony marked the first step in implementing the Paris Agreement, which was adopted in December 2015. Signing on behalf of the UAE government was ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, an independent, research-driven graduate-level university focused on advanced energy, and sustainable technologies, on Saturday announced it hosted a symposium titled, “Energy Efficiency and Renewables: Building Technology – Made in Germany.” The event was part of a series of symposiums in Dubai and Abu Dhabi organised by the German ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MOFAIC) together with the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratistion (MOHRE) have started taking necessary arrangements enabling workers to sign job offers back home through Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation service centers to issue entry work visas. This came following a presentation Saqr Ghobash, Minister of Human Resources ...