The Gulf Time Newspaper One of the finest business newspapers in the UAE brought to you by our professional writers and editors.

DAKAR / WAM President Macky Sall of Senegal welcomed an official UAE delegation led by Hussain Jasim Al Nowais, Chairman of the Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development (KFED) to the Senegalese capital, Dakar. During the delegation’s visit, President Sall praised the strong ties and friendly relations between his country and the UAE. He also expressed his country’s keenness towards supporting ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE and Gambia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to reinforce their cooperation in implementing the best employment practices and regulating temporary contractual work related to Gambian employees in the UAE. The MoU was signed by Nasser bin Thani Al Hamli, Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation, and Mamadou Tangara, Minister for Foreign Affairs, International ...

Beijing / WAM The UAE will host an Economic, Investment and Trade Forum in Beijing on Monday. Celebrating the 35th anniversary of the close relations between the two countries, the event will promote cooperation for future generations, inspired by the bilateral strategic partnership. The forum during the three-day China visit of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown ...

Bloomberg New York has signed the biggest-ever deals for offshore wind power in US history, a key part of the state’s plan to get all of its power from emissions-free sources by 2040. Governor Andrew Cuomo awarded contracts for two projects off Long Island that will total 1,700 megawatts in capacity. Equinor ASA and a joint venture between Denmark’s Orsted ...

Bloomberg Canadian natural gas producers are asking Alberta’s government to give drillers a break on their royalty payments in return for cutting back output during periods of heavy pipeline maintenance, a bid to smooth out the province’s volatile gas market. That would give producers an incentive to dial back their output when capacity on TC Energy Corp.’s Nova Gas Transmission ...

Bloomberg Ukraine’s anti-establishment political turn is poised to accelerate in Sunday’s snap general elections, with ex-comedian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s movement on track to sweep traditional forces out of power. Half a decade after street protests that toppled Russian-backed leader Viktor Yanukovych, Zelenskiy has tapped into voter anger over the lack of progress in flushing dirty officials out of state institutions ...

Bloomberg Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari condemned attacks that killed 37 people in the Goronyo community in the northern state of Sokoto. “This frequent and large scale killings of poor villagers by gangs of mass murderers must be met with the fiercest force the government can mobilise,” the president said in a statement emailed by his spokesman Garba Shehu, without stating ...

Bloomberg National Security Adviser John Bolton has left for Japan and South Korea as the US faces a range of issues in the region from trade tensions between its two allies to North Korea’s threat to scrap nuclear talks. Bolton “departed for Japan and South Korea to continue conversations with critical allies and friends,” Garrett Marquis, spokesman for the National ...

Bloomberg Taiwan’s presidential election next year will be a test of its democracy and value system, President Tsai Ing-wen said at the end of a US trip that drew rebuke from China. “Voters in Taiwan will be focussed on the future of our country, especially whether we can keep our democratic and freedom way of life,” she said at a ...

Bloomberg China issued a defense of its policies in the Xinjiang region where its detention of ethnic Uighurs has drawn criticism from the US and other western nations. Xinjiang is an “inseparable part” of China, and internal and external hostile forces including separatists, religious extremists and terrorists are distorting history and facts to split the country apart, the official Xinhua ...