Mexico City: President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador launched an ambitious plan Saturday to stimulate economic activity on the Mexican side of the US-Mexico border, reinforcing his country’s commitment to manufacturing and trade despite recent US threats to close the border entirely. Mexico will slash income and corporate taxes to 20 per cent from 30 per […]

Washington, D.C.: Just as the pharmaceutical industry’s biggest conference of the year is set to get under way, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to complain that drugmakers aren’t “living up to their commitments on pricing.” Despite talk about halting increases and lowering the price on some treatments, pharmaceutical companies on January 1 returned to […]

Abu Dhabi: Geo-political developments are unlikely to moderate the economic growth of the UAE, a trend in line with IMF projections of growth in the country in 2018 and 2019, a senior official has said. Juma Mohammad Al Kait, assistant under-secretary for Foreign Trade Affairs at the Ministry of Economy said the “positive outlook for […]

Tokyo: Japan will consider countermeasures to protect Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. assets from seizure in South Korea sought in response to a wartime forced-labour complaint, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said. It’s “very regrettable that former workers from the Korean Peninsula are taking action for seizing the assets,” Abe told national broadcaster NHK’s “Sunday […]

The pledge comes a day after Sheikh Mohammed shared his 8-point mantra of governance.

The pledge comes a day after Sheikh Mohammed shared his 8-point mantra of governance.

Dubai’s Torch Tower experiences third fire in as many years

The car belonged to the deceased’s older brother, who was unaware that the former had taken it out for a spin.

In a rare gesture, Prime Minister Imran Khan met Al Nahyan at the Pakistan Air Force base and a formation of air force jets marked his arrival with a flyby