UAE’s Ducab sets up a metals company

Dubai: The Dubai- and Abu Dhabi-government owned Ducab has set up a separate company to handle all of its copper and aluminum rod manufacturing and trading interests. The new entity, DMB (Ducab Metals Business), has an installed capacity for 175,000 tonnes of copper rods a year, conservatively valued at $1 billion, and of 50,000 tonnes […]

Twitter advises nearly 5,000 global employees to work from home

Twitter Inc. is “strongly encouraging” all of its nearly 5,000 global employees to work from home due to concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, the company said Monday. The social media company made the suggestion as part of a blog update one day after it suspended all non-critical travel for employees, including pulling […]

UAE rules out any VAT increase

Abu Dhabi: The UAE ruled out any increase the value added tax (VAT to be accordance with recent IMF recommendations. “We are not concerned about the recommendations to increase the value-added tax,” the UAE’s Minister of State for Financial Affairs, Obaid Al Tayer, told Gulf News. The International Monetary Fund had recommended a doubling of […]