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YEMEN / WAM Since the start of the holy month of Ramadan, the UAE has distributed more than 80,000 Iftar meals in Yemen’s liberated governorates. A representative of the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), in Yemen said that 15,000 Iftar meals were distributed in Aden; 2,000 in Lahej; 2,000 in Dhala; 2,000 Taiz; 2,000 in Abyan; 35,000 in the Red Sea ...

Dubai / WAM Etihad Credit Insurance has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB), to offer efficient customer service and innovative solutions that will help public institutions and local businesses raise their business profile thereby helping them cement their presence regionally as well as internationally. This alliance which focuses on encouraging and boosting UAE businesses by ...

Al Ain / Emirates Business Strata Manufacturing (Strata), the advanced composite aero structures manufacturing company wholly-owned by Mubadala Investment Company PJSC, has extended its agreement with Pilatus Aircraft Ltd to cover a new composite work package for the PC-24, a twin-engine business jet. The new agreement will see Strata manufacture PC-24 flap track fairings and comes exactly a year after ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The United Arab Emirates has welcomed the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud’s call to the leaders of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) and other Arab League states for two emergency summits in Makkah on May 30, on the critical circumstances the region is going through and their consequences on ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Jubail Island Investment Company (JIIC) announced the appointment of Gulf Contractors Company (GCC) to commence enabling works for the AED5 billion Jubail Island that was recently launched in Abu Dhabi. Enabling works are scheduled for completion in January 2020. Enabling works are generally associated with large-scale land development projects and entail major earthworks and grading ...

Dubai / WAM Enoc Group has signed an agreement with Moro, the Dubai government owned digital data hub, focused on providing digital transformation and operational innovation, to lead the digitalisation journey of Enoc’s operations. The digital transformation will be driven through an organisation-wide SAP system implementation and infrastructure hosting services by Moro and powered by Virtustream Cloud Technology over the ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai’s unemployment rate reached 0.5 per cent last year, while the refined economic participation rate as a percentage of total working-age population reached 83.2 percent, according to the Labour Force Survey 2018 published by Dubai Statistics Center. Arif Al Mehairi, Executive Director of Dubai Statistics Center, said: “The results of the Labour Force Survey 2018 illustrate the ...

Bloomberg Huawei Technologies Co has stockpiled enough chips and other vital components to keep its business running for at least three months as the US curtails its access to American technology, people familiar with the matter said. The Trump administration blacklisted China’s largest tech company — which it accuses of aiding Beijing in espionage — threatening to cut off the ...

Bloomberg Singapore urged the US to allow China to have a greater say in shaping global rules to avoid a prolonged clash that could force smaller countries to choose between the world’s biggest economies. Speaking to an audience in Washington, Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said it won’t work to view China as an adversary that must be contained and called ...

Bloomberg Reliance Capital Ltd, Anil Ambani’s financial services company, protested against a three-step downgrade by Care Ratings that put its credit score two notches above junk. Care Ratings cut the firm’s long-term debt programme to BBB from A and kept it on credit watch with developing implications, according to statements from Reliance Capital and the rating company. Reliance Capital said ...