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  Dubai / Emirates Business As the UAE officially marks 2017 as ‘The Year of Giving’, The Mohammed Bin Rashid Global Centre for Endowment Consultancy (MBRGCEC) and the Emirates Wildlife Society in association with WWF (EWS-WWF) – part of the world’s leading conservation organization – start off the year with the launch of a first-of-its-kind initiative to support environment through ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates-based shipyard, Gulf Craft, was recognized for its exceptional customer service and business leading efforts at the prestigious MENAA Awards. The distinguished accolades, which were distributed at the Burj Al Arab, celebrate organizational best practice in leadership and customer service across the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. The fourth edition of the MENAA Awards ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Trade, the single window for cross-border trade and a DP World company, celebrated the graduation of more than 270 trainees in its certified training programmes. The Certified Trade & Logistics Professional (CTLP) programme available in English and Arabic is offered to professionals working in different sectors in the trade and supply chain such as ...

  The data scientists writing the algorithms that drive giants like Alphabet Inc. (Google) and Facebook Inc. are today’s technology wizards, and companies and governments increasingly use their creations — often in secret and with little oversight — to do everything from hiring and firing employees to identifying likely suspects for police monitoring. But there’s a dark side — and ...

  If there’s one thing economists tend to agree on, it’s the benefits of free movement of labor. Lowering barriers to immigration has the power to add up to $90 trillion a year to the global economy, doubling global gross domestic product and dwarfing the impact of reducing barriers to trade and capital flows. Not only does immigration boost the ...

  Decades from now, when historians look back on 2016, they’ll of course take note of the momentous votes on both sides of the Atlantic. But if they’re interested in symbolism, they might find that an even more profound turning point occurred over the English countryside in early December, when a little flying robot buzzed though the air, alighted on ...

  South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who was impeached after a corruption scandal, rejected on Sunday the accusations that she conspired with a longtime friend to extort money and favours from companies. Park denied that her jailed friend, Choi Soon-sil, influenced government decisions. She also vehemently refuted allegations that her administration blacklisted thousands of artists for their political beliefs. It ...

  WASHINGTON / AP Members of the 115th Congress were expected to be sworn in at noon Tuesday, setting off an aggressive campaign by Republicans who control the House and Senate to dismantle eight years of President Barack Obama’s Democratic policies. The first and biggest target is Obama’s health care law, which Republicans have long sought to gut and blamed ...

  WARSAW / AP Poland’s key opposition party is facing questions about its credibility after its leader took a vacation with a female party member during a crucial protest in parliament. The issue threatens to tarnish the image of the pro-business Modern party and its leader, Ryszard Petru, at a time when Modern is the most popular party opposing the ...

  TIRANA / AP Albania is suspending the reopening of schools after the New Year’s break because of frigid weather and concern about the spread of flu. A Health Ministry statement on Tuesday warned that subfreezing temperatures will cover the whole country for several days, “creating favorable conditions for the further spread of the (flu) virus.” It ordered nurseries, kindergartens, ...