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DUBAI / WAM The launch of the Real Estate Registration Trustees Offices has helped the Dubai Land Department (DLD) save approximately AED45 million annually through 18 offices across Dubai, said Saad Abdulla Al Hammadi, Director of Finance and Administrative Affairs at the DLD. The Real Estate Registration Trustees Offices are playing an important role in fulfilling the department’s vision of ...

SHARJAH / WAM The Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has announced that a high-level delegation is preparing for a visit to the Republic of Costa Rica, to enhance bilateral economic relations and serve mutual interest to achieve more growth and prosperity between the two countries. The delegation will include officials from a number of government agencies, representatives of ...

DUBAI / WAM The Business Registration and Licensing (BRL) Sector at Dubai Economy has registered record results in the number of licenses issued in the first half of 2017 with 10,455 commercial licenses issued at an average of 1,743 licenses per month, while the total number of licenses renewed was 71,831 at a monthly average of 11,971. These results underline ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi University’s (ADU) Career Development Department has begun preparations to implement a comprehensive plan of events, activities and initiatives that enhance career opportunities for graduates, and provide them, even before graduating, with support and guidance they need to succeed on career paths. The plan will include interactive training programs and specialized workshops aimed at ...

Bloomberg The meeting that Donald Trump Jr. had in June 2016 with a woman billed as a Russian government lawyer included at least one other person with long-standing ties to Russia. Rinat Akhmetshin, who once served in a Soviet counterintelligence unit, told the Associated Press that he was also there, along with a translator. The revelation adds to the questions ...

Bloomberg House Republicans plan to give federal prosecutors what they say is evidence that Obama administration officials illegally shared or leaked names of associates of President Donald Trump that were incidentally collected in US government eavesdropping. The Intelligence Committee obtaine information from documents and other sources that it plans to turn over to the Justice Department, likely by August, to ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s administration took the dispute over his temporary travel ban to the Supreme Court again, asking the justices to let the government bar entry into the US by people with grandparents and cousins in the country. The administration filed papers late Friday asking the court to clarify a June 26 ruling that said the government had to ...

Bloomberg Former Prime Minister Tony Blair said Britain should keep open the option of staying in the European Union so Brexit can be called off if the mood of voters changes during the two-year negotiation period. The damage to the economy and livelihoods caused by a break from the 28-nation bloc is becoming clearer as divorce proceedings continue, and a ...

Bloomberg China freed the most prominent dissident jailed under President Xi Jinping, drawing further attention to the country’s human-rights record amid an international outcry over the death of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo. Xu Zhiyong, 44, founder of the New Citizens’ Movement, was released on Saturday after completing a four-year prison sentence for gathering a crowd to disturb the public order, ...

Bloomberg New York gasoline traders have figured out something the rest of the oil world is dying to know how to do: balance the market. Mid-Atlantic gasoline supplies are now more than 5 million barrels lower than year-ago levels, an impressive decline considering stockpiles in the region swelled to 42.3 million in February — the highest level in government records ...