Over the last five years, the UAE has dedicated $ 322m for humanitarian initiatives focused on women.

The sales come after Trump vetoed an attempt by Congress to stop US support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen.

As of May 1, 2019, the import of any type of cigarettes into the UAE not bearing digital tax stamps has been prohibited.

Moscow. Russia’s largest tech company is launching a delivery service that allows a customer to tell a restaurant what to cook, whether it’s on the menu or not. Yandex NV will prepare meal kits with ingredients based on a customer’s requested dish and send it to a nearby restaurant for cooking. Once the food is […]

Dubai: Worried about meeting those down payments and subsequent instalments on the property? If yes, why not opt for more manageable monthly payments of Dh2,000 or Dh3,000? More developers in Dubai are offering such schemes on off-plan purchases, with the instalments set on terms easy on buyers’ pockets. For instance, someone buying a Dh475,000 studio […]

Tokyo. A new model of bullet train set to enter service ahead of the Tokyo Olympics hit a record speed of 360 kilometres (224 miles) per hour in a test run, operator JR Central said. The N700s — the suffix stands for ‘supreme’ — is the first new model of bullet train on Japan’s busiest […]

Dubai Hindustan Infralog, a joint venture between DP World and the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), said Thursday that it had completed its acquisition of a 76 per cent stake in KRIBHCO Infrastructure, an integrated multi-modal logistics operator in India. The acquisition was made through its 90 per cent owned subsidiary, Continental Warehousing Corporation. […]

After he was born his mother called his father in Dubai.

Beijing: The US escalation of trade tensions won’t solve any of its problems but will create volatility in global markets and hurt the world economy, China’s top financial regulator said Saturday. Higher US tariffs will have a “very limited” impact on China’s economy while hurting the US about as much, said Xiao Yuanqi, spokesman for […]

The escalating trade clash between the United States and China has sent thousands of US companies scrambling to determine whether they can import goods from other countries to escape higher tariffs. But when President Donald Trump threatened to tag large penalties on $300 billion in Chinese imports earlier this month, a sense of panic settled […]