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Dubai / WAM The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), and Dubai Police GHQ have endorsed the general framework of the ‘5-Year Executive Plan of Traffic Safety Strategy’. The strategy comprises 4 key drivers, namely, monitoring and traffic control, roads engineering and vehicles, traffic awareness, systems improvement and management. The two parties have also endorsed the strategic performance indicators, and the ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology (NCMS), has urged motorists to be cautious, reduce speed and leave enough distance between vehicles because of a dust storm caused by winds. NMCS said in a statement on Monday that the weather will be hot in general, partly cloudy and hazy at times. Some clouds may appear over ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The spirit of giving across different generations and pillars was celebrated at the NAMA Women Advancement Establishment (NAMA)’s Ramadan gathering, which was held under the theme ‘The good begins and ends with you’ at Al Jawaher Reception and Convention Centre in Sharjah. Grandmothers, mothers and daughters took part in the event, which paid tribute to the ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The UAE has the second highest net perception of service improvement over the past two years globally and ranks first in terms of the highest levels of satisfaction for services in comparison to the private sector, with 39.5% more UAE citizens using these services more often according to The Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) 2016 Digital Government ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Hilton on Monday announced that Hilton Abu Dhabi Yas Island Resort will be part of the AED12 billion development plan announced by Miral for the southern end of Yas Island, in efforts to further position the island among the world’s most sought-after destinations by 2022. B.R. Kiran, Chief Portfolio Officer of Miral said: “We are ...

Dubai / Emirates Business UAE-based Transguard Group on Monday released its annual figures for the financial year ending March 31, which was another record year for the business support services provider, with a set of exceptional financial figures and operational milestones. According to the figures audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Transguard Group, generated revenue in excess of AED1.9 billion a 33% increase ...

Bloomberg China’s Yanzhou Coal Mining Co. is holding fire on a counter offer for Rio Tinto Group’s Australian coal assets as it waits to hear whether Glencore Plc has succeeded in trumping the deal it struck six months ago. Glencore Chief Executive Officer Ivan Glasenberg has submitted a proposal to buy Rio’s Coal & Allied unit in New South Wales ...

Bloomberg China and Singapore pledged to cooperate on trade and regional infrastructure projects, in a sign the countries have begun to repair ties strained amid security disputes in Southeast Asia. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Singaporean counterpart Vivian Balakrishnan said on Monday in a briefing in Beijing they reached agreement to work more closely on China’s “Belt and Road” ...

Bloomberg India’s judiciary must consider the interests of the economy and examine the impact of its verdicts on jobs, the country’s top court said in a judgment that could help reduce stalled projects in Asia’s third-largest economy. “The court needs to avoid that particular outcome which has a potential to create an adverse affect on employment, growth of infrastructure or ...

Bloomberg President Emmanuel Macron expanded his control of French politics as voters put his party on track to a sweeping majority in the National Assembly in the first round of legislative elections, ousting establishment stalwarts in the process. The new president’s year-old party, Republic on the Move, won 32.3 percent of the vote alongside its centrist ally MoDem, more than ...