DUBAI / WAM The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) recently led a delegation of UAE business leaders to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to explore trade and investment opportunities within the country’s agricultural sector. Dubai Chamber organised the trade mission in partnership with the UAE Embassy in Uzbekistan, the Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the UAE, the Chamber ...
Read More »HIPA’s photography courses for Dubai govt employees
DUBAI / WAM The Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA), will host a total of three photography courses for Dubai government employees as part of the organisation’s training programme coinciding with the seventh season of competition, titled, ‘The Moment’. The courses, hosted at the HIPA headquarters in Downtown Dubai, will take place during the ...
Read More »StanChat, Transguard partner for smart cash transaction
Dubai / Emirates Business Standard Chartered Bank has signed a partnership agreement with leading UAE-based business support provider Transguard Group, which will enable the bank to offer its corporate clients a smarter and more convenient cash solution, by integrating ‘smart’ cash deposit machines with Transguard’s cash in transit (CIT) services. Although efficient connectivity has helped online banking and other ...
Read More »ADNIC to enhance customer service productivity
Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi National Insurance Company (ADNIC), one of the leading regional multi-line insurance providers for corporates and individuals, recently held a Service Leadership Workshop with world-renowned author and consultant Ron Kaufman to enhance customer service productivity at the firm. The Leadership Workshop, held at the Park Rotana in Abu Dhabi, was offered to all ...
Read More »EU throws down Brexit gauntlet to Britain as talks edge closer
Bloomberg European Union governments threw down the gauntlet to the U.K. ahead of Brexit talks, listing demands Prime Minister Theresa May must satisfy before they will discuss the trade deal she wants and urging her to be more realistic in her expectations. Any doubts about the scale of the task facing Britain in withdrawing from the EU after four ...
Read More »Japan, Philippines urge US, N Korea to avoid war brink
Bloomberg Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte joined China in pleading with the leaders of North Korea and the US to tone down their nuclear brinksmanship, even as he agreed with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that negotiations to end the standoff would be useless. “We have to caution everybody including those who’d give the advice to the two players because ...
Read More »South Africa’s Phosa accepts nomination for ANC president
Bloomberg South African businessman Mathews Phosa said he accepted a nomination to stand as president of the ruling African National Congress. Phosa will challenge Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a former chairwoman of the African Union Commission, who are seen as the frontrunners to succeed President Jacob Zuma as the party’s leader at a conference in December. ...
Read More »Secret warriors can be blinded by sunlight
I was one very lucky kid, wrote retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn in a 2016 memoir about his bumpy childhood in a working-class Rhode Island family. “I was one of those nasty tough kids, hell-bent on breaking rules for the adrenaline rush and hardwired just enough to not care about the consequences.” Flynn described how he was arrested but ...
Read More »EU sticks with socialism
For all the ground that traditional socialist parties have lost, the European Union remains a profoundly socialist organization that believes in strong worker rights at the expense of corporations — at least judging from its latest mission statement. The European Commission has presented the final version of the European Pillar of Social Rights, a document in which Commission President ...
Read More »Donald Trump’s tariffs won’t work
Is imported steel a threat to national security? How about aluminum? The White House has its suspicions, and plans to invoke an arcane statute to investigate. If the probes turn up anything, President Donald Trump will have essentially unlimited power to restrict or limit imports in response. Despite the administration’s claims, this sounds like a pretext for imposing tariffs ...
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