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Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, on Monday received Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana, in Qasr Al Watan (or the Nation’s Palace), who is in the country on an official visit. Upon his arrival at the Palace in Abu Dhabi, ...

DUBAI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Monday visited a side exhibition of the Global Business Forum (GBF), held in Jumeirah City. He was accompanied by His Highness Sheikh Mansoor bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. During his tour of the exhibition, His ...

MORONI / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), is continuing its humanitarian and development initiatives in the Comoro Islands having signed contracts to establish new health and educational projects in the capital, Moroni, worth AED12 million. The contracts were signed with companies implementing the projects by Obaid Rahmat Al Baloushi, who headed the ERC delegation visiting the Comoro Islands to ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, received on Monday President of Liberia, George Weah, who is visiting the UAE to attend the Global Business Forum Africa 2019 in Dubai. His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and President Weah ...

Dubai / WAM Enoc Group and GoAir of India have signed aviation fuel supply agreement. Through which, Enoc will provide the Indian budget carrier with jet fuel supply at the Dubai International Airport for their fleet of commercial aeroplanes. After a track-record of significant growth and success in the UAE, Enoc further expanded its network and currently covers more than ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Etihad Airways and Boeing on Monday announced a first-of-its-kind ‘eco partnership’, in which a specially-themed Boeing 787 Dreamliner will be used to test products, procedures and initiatives designed to reduce aircraft carbon emissions. The ‘Etihad Greenliner’, to be introduced early next year, will be used by both companies to explore and assess environmental sustainability initiatives while ...

Bloomberg Masayoshi Son, after backing startups around the world, is engineering a complex deal on his home turf to create a national champion that can more effectively compete with global rivals like Google and Amazon.com Inc. Son’s SoftBank Group Corp plans to combine its Yahoo Japan internet business with Line Corp in a deal that values the country’s leading messaging ...

Bloomberg India unveiled rules to help creditors recover loans due from large shadow lenders as a prolonged upheaval in the nation’s credit markets raises the risk of defaults by the financiers. The amended law provides a generic framework for insolvency and liquidation proceedings of systemically important financial services providers, other than banks, according to a government statement. The 15-month-old credit ...

Bloomberg Japan’s trade curbs on South Korea have so far been a case of “the bark was worse than the bite,” with only limited fallout for South Korea’s economy, according to Citigroup Inc. Japan’s tighter scrutiny of exports of three key materials used in the chip industry and Tokyo’s removal of its neighbour from a list of trusted trading partners ...

Bloomberg Indonesia’s budget deficit has ballooned to more than $20 billion and is set to widen further as Southeast Asia’s largest economy struggles amid a global slowdown. With the government on pace to miss revenue targets, the 2019 budget deficit is now expected to reach as much as 2.2% of gross domestic product, from an initial target of 1.84%. Figures ...