RIYADH. Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has approved a scheme to reimburse some of the companies who struggled to pay steadily increasing fees for expatriate work permits in 2017 and 2018 and waive the fee hikes for some who weren’t able to pay, the labour minister said. The government is allocating 11.5 billion riyals ($3.1 billion) […]
Washington, D.C.: US negotiators are preparing to press China next week on long-standing demands that it reform how it treats American companies’ intellectual property in order to seal a trade deal that could prevent tariffs from rising on Chinese imports. A new round of trade talks begins in Beijing on Monday, after the most recent […]
Amsterdam: Brexit is driving companies out of the UK, and the Netherlands is raking in the corporate refugees. About 250 companies are in talks with the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency to potentially relocate activities to the country, according to the organisation’s annual report published on Saturday. The candidates would join 42 companies that made the […]
New York: Goldman Sachs’s decision to potentially cut bonuses for top executives over the 1MDB scandal reflects an acknowledgement at shareholder and public outrage over the debacle. The prestigious investment bank announced last week that it could withhold millions of dollars in bonuses to former chief executive Lloyd Blankfein and two other retired executives depending […]
Dubai: The UAE is keen not on being affected by the trade tensions China faces with the United States, Obaid Al Tayer, the UAE’s Minister of State for Financial Affairs, stressed on Saturday. Al Tayer said that Arab countries have close trade ties with China, especially in the field of energy as Chinese demand for […]
The sky pods were on display at the annual World Government Summit.
The water’s surface was frozen.
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Dubai: More than 10 years after the global financial crisis, the Arab world has yet to recover from that meltdown, with economic growth in the region still below pre-crisis level and the outlook “uncertain.” According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), oil-importing countries in the Arab world still have high fiscal deficits and public debt, […]
This happened during Sheikh Mohamed’s visit to the United Arab Emirates University.