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  Ajman / WAM Ajman Tourism Development Department (ATDD) announced its participation in the UAE Innovation Week 2016, as a supporting sponsor of the Tourism Innovation and Transformation Forum, held in Dubai under the patronage of Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy. The participation is in line with the vision of Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Focusing on knowledge content, Arabic language and national identity, the Ministry of Culture and Knowledge Development has highlighted a number of initiatives during UAE Innovation Week. These initiatives were presented across three major pavilions in Umm Al Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah and Fujairah. They include a smart library initiative providing cultural services to employees working in all ...

  Dubai / WAM Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), opened DEWA Innovation Week 2016. The opening ceremony was attended by DEWA’s Executive Vice Presidents, Vice Presidents, and senior officials. Al Tayer toured the Innovation Week activities including the Innovation Hub, the Future Dome, and the Innovation Exhibition. The Innovation Hub features four ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM As part of the UAE Innovation Week programme, Khalifa University has invited the public to view the cutting edge research the university is engaged in. A part of the week’s activities, open houses at two of the university’s eleven research centres was held on Sunday. The public is also invited to visit the Visual Signal Analysis ...

Lima / AFP Fast-growing Asia-Pacific economies will strike more trade deals among themselves as opposition grows in Europe and the US to globalization, analysts say, warning the West will lose out as the dynamic region powers ahead. The most high-profile victim of recent protectionist sentiments has been a major US-led trans-Pacific deal, which is as good as dead after the ...

  Bloomberg Asia-Pacific leaders are expected to send a strong message in defense of free trade on Sunday as they wrap up a summit that has been overshadowed by US President-elect Donald Trump’s protectionism. The broad consensus at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, which features some of the world’s most powerful leaders on both sides of the Pacific, is ...

  Bloomberg Home-loan providers in Australia are selling mortgage bonds at the slowest pace in four years, flocking instead to cheaper debt that doesn’t require collateral. Just A$14.8 billion ($11 billion) of new residential mortgage-backed securities have been issued so far in 2016 by banks and other housing lenders, 36 percent less than at this stage last year, data compiled ...

  Bloomberg The country’s proposed national minimum wage amounts to 20 rand per hour and brings South Africa a step closer to tackling poverty, inequality and unemployment, South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said to reporters in Johannesburg on Sunday. “It is by no means the final figure of what the national minimum wage is going to be,” Ramaphosa said. ...

  Before President-elect Donald Trump brings in the bulldozers to “drain the swamp” in Washington, I hope he will consider the career achievements of two people who embody the nation’s tradition of bipartisan foreign policy leadership, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft. The two former national security advisers came from vastly different worlds to join in constructing the foreign policy tradition ...

  It may be useful to imagine for the duration of Europe’s upcoming election season that we live in a world without public polling. Would that make further populist surprises look more or less likely? The post-Brexit, post-Trump world is not necessarily “post-truth” despite a certain blurring of lines between fact and spin. It is, however, definitely post-poll. U.S. pollsters ...