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DUBAI / Emirates Business The Dubai Health Authority’s (DHAs) smart clinic discussed the importance of awareness and early detection of Tuberculosis on Tuesday. Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease caused by bacteria that is spread from person to person through microscopic droplets released into the air. This can happen when someone with the untreated, active form of tuberculosis coughs, speaks, ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The Bayer Group had a very successful year in 2015, both strategically and operationally. “Operationally it was another record year for Bayer. Sales reached the highest level in the company’s history, exceeding EUR 46 billion. Clean EBITDA substantially rose by about 18 percent and also set a new record of more than EUR 10 billion,” Management ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a pioneer and leading provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions, today announced the Qualys ThreatPROTECT solution. Built on the Qualys Cloud Platform, ThreatPROTECT correlates data from vulnerability scans and active threat data from multiple sources into a single dynamic dashboard to provide a holistic and contextual view of an organization’s threat ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) received over 1.4 million telephone calls in 2015. DEWA’s call centre, the Customer Care Centre, answered 665,343 calls, while a further 754,190 calls were managed by its Interactive Voice Response system, enabling DEWA customers to make use of its services smartly and efficiently. DEWA’s Customer Care Centre also received up ...

DUBAI / WAM Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has launched Dubai Wholesale City, the largest global wholesale hub, set to span over 550 million sq. feet, with an expected development cost of AED30 billion over ten years. The new development aims to increase the UAE’s share ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (DED) has seized 10,231 counterfeit beauty and skincare products in an inspection campaign launched by its Commercial Protection Directorate (CPD) in Mussaffah, Abu Dhabi. The CPD also issued 12 fines against vehicle owners who transported products without a license in Zayed City Centre in Abu Dhabi and the Industrial Zone ...

ABU DHABI / WAM ADNOC Distribution on Tuesday launched the pilot phase of its smart self-refueling service (ADNOC SMART) in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, which will run until October 1 and cover four service stations on Abu Dhabi Island. ADNOC SMART also enables registered customers to benefit from a variety of innovative payment methods. The pilot phase of ADNOC ...

Tokyo / Bloomberg The world’s biggest pension fund posted its best quarterly gain in a year as a rebound in stocks helped add $42 billion to the value of Japanese asset manager’s investments. The 139.8 trillion yen ($1.2 trillion) Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) delivered a 3.6 percent return in the three months ended December as its holdings rose by ...

New Delhi / Bloomberg India’s biggest gold market was shuttered on Tuesday as jewellers in the country’s commercial capital began an indefinite strike to try to reverse a plan by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to introduce an excise tax. Jewellers in Mumbai’s Zaveri Bazaar have stopped work and want the proposal for a 1 percent levy announced in Monday’s annual ...

Tokyo / Bloomberg Sharp Corp. is facing a potential cash crunch at the end of this month as talks drag on with Foxconn Technology Group for a rescue deal that would inject billions of dollars in new capital into the struggling Japanese electronics maker. Sharp has 510 billion yen ($4.5 billion) in credit lines and loans that are set to ...