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Sharjah / Emirates Business Sharjah FDI Office (Invest in Sharjah), the investment promotion agency dedicated to the continued transformation and economic diversification of Sharjah, organised the Sharjah-India Business Roundtable on the side-line of the second day of Indian-UAE Partnership Summit at the Atlantis The Palm, Dubai, as part of India’s continued interest in the emirate’s diversified economy. The roundtable focused ...

DUBAI / WAM The Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), has announced that it will commence construction works on three footbridges across Dubai. According to a press statement, one of the bridges will have four escalators linking the four sides of a key junction at the King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud Street. This latest move is in line ...

Sharjah / WAM­­­­­ His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, has allocated AED4.5 million to purchase the latest publications of the participating publishers at the 37th Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF 2018). The gesture is a continuation of HH’s constant approach to support the book industry and publication houses with the ...

Dubai / WAM The Dubai Land Department (DLD), announced that the real estate brokerage commissions reached AED842 million during the first nine months of 2018. Brokers contributed to concluding 18,121 transactions in that period, the Department added. A report issued by the Department of Real Estate Studies and Research at DLD shows that brokers earned AED429 million from land sales, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE will on Sunday launch the Unified Customs Strategy, announced Ali Al Kaabi, Customs Commissioner and Head of the Federal Customs Authority. Al Kaabi said the strategy aims to support the country’s security and customs systems, maintain community security and stability and improve the UAE’s rankings in the international competitiveness indexes. He stated that the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The 4th International Conference on Future Mobility (ICFM), will be held in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, featuring a world-class team of experts in the automotive industry and technologies. More than 450 experts and professionals are expected to represent more than 175 government and private institutions from 18 countries at the event. The conference and its accompanying ...

Bloomberg North Korea stepped up its attack on US-led sanctions, threatening to resume its nuclear program if the measures aren’t lifted. The Foreign Ministry’s Institute for American Studies said it could revive its policy of economic construction and nuclear development if sanctions continue. The US “had better stop the self-destructive act of putting pressure” on the North, the Korean Central ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said that soldiers sent to fortify the US border with Mexico won’t shoot migrants if they throw rocks at Americans, a reversal from remarks he made a day earlier. Migrants trying to enter the US will instead be quickly arrested if they’re violent, he said as he departed the White House for a campaign rally in ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said the US remains open to reaching a comprehensive deal with Iran that blocks its nuclear-weapons programme, just days before sanctions on the country’s energy and shipping sectors kick back in. “Our objective is to force the regime into a clear choice,” Trump said in a statement released by the White House on Friday evening, referencing ...

Bloomberg A cloak of secrecy surrounds the negotiations on the UK’s exit from the European Union. Neither side has reported in any detail what’s going on behind closed doors in Brussels since Prime Minister Theresa May updated Parliament on October 22. But the lack of public comment doesn’t mean nothing’s happening. British and European negotiators are locked away trying to ...