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  Emirates Business LG Electronics’ G6 smartphone won an unprecedented 31 booth awards at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017 including multiple honors from various international titles and publications attending the show. The LG G6 demonstrates that the company is at the forefront of mobile communications and consumer demand. Amongst top honors received, Wired, Android Authority, Digital Trends, PCMag and TechRadar ...

  DUBAI / WAM Dubai Financial Market (DFM) announced the launch of a trading platform for exchange-traded funds (ETFs), the first of its kind in regional capital markets. Governed by a world-class regulatory framework, the platform offers unprecedented levels of integration and provides ongoing support to the burgeoning ETF industry, particularly market makers, authorised participants and liquidity providers. DFM hosted ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation of the UAE, and Francois-Philippe Champagne, Minister of International Trade of Canada, met in Abu Dhabi to discuss ways of promoting and enhancing bilateral relations between the two countries, with a focus on trade and investment, to benefit their people. Welcoming ...

  DUBAI / WAM Yousef Obaid Al Nuaimi, Chairman of Ras al-Khaimah Chamber of Commerce and Industry, RAK Chamber, discussed development of economic relations with Poland, during his meeting with Robert Rostek, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the UAE. Al Nuaimi underlined the chamber’s commitment to support, develop and diversify fields of economic and investment cooperation with Polish ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi International Airport will be one of the largest state-of-the-art airports in the world, with a capacity to accommodate 30 million passengers per year by 2019, said HH Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Chairman of Abu Dhabi Executive Council, declared, following a tour of the Midfield Terminal Building (MTB) on Sunday. “The ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE President, His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has dedicated the Year of Giving along with all its initiatives and activities to the UAE martyrs in memory of their heroic deeds and in appreciation of their sacrifices. The President’s directive aims to instill the values of generosity and selflessness, which the martyrs ...

  After months of uncertainty and some false starts, President Donald Trump seems to have picked someone to be the head of his Council of Economic Advisers. That someone is Kevin Hassett, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a center-right think tank. This is a great move, for a number of reasons. First, along with the hiring of H.R. ...

  Everything China has, India wants — except perhaps its communist rulers. Right now, the object of the southern neighbour’s envy is oil. Or, to be precise, very large energy gorillas. Beijing possesses three, and New Delhi none. So the latter wants to merge its smaller companies into bigger groups. There’s only one problem with the plan: shareholders. When China ...

  In another year or another administration, the absence of a cabinet official at a press conference would merit no comment. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s decision not to attend Friday’s release of the department’s annual human rights report, however, is a small but telling sign of a more profound and dangerous shift: President Donald Trump’s apathy for the values ...

  Russia might be Achilles heel of Trump foreign policy. During his campaign, and after taking oath of office for president of United States, Trump was accused of having something to do with Russia. Trump always lambasted the report of Russian interventions in US presidential elections. The Republican billionaire disparaged those who accused Putin directing Russian hacking. The intelligence report ...