DOHA, Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad bin Abdulrahman discussed on Tuesday with a delegation of members of the French Parliament the latest developments in Gaza Strip and the occupied Palestinian territories.
In a statement…
TOKYO, China said Tuesday it firmly opposes any form of official interactions with Taiwan by countries that have diplomatic relations with China, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
“It has been reported that several parliamentarians and former of…
BEIRUT, The Kuwait-headquartered Arab Planning Institute has launched the second phase of the “the national program for disseminating the culture of leading businesses” in the northern city of Tripoli for backing up human resources.
Karim Darwish, th…
ABU DHABI: Bottomline performance for the GCC banking sector remained steady with a healthy q-o-q growth of 11.8% and a Y-o-Y growth of 10.5% to reach $14.4 billion during Q1-2024, according to GCC Banking Sector Report – Q1-2024, released today by ka…
BRUSSELS: The first estimates of euro area balance showed a pound 24.1 bn surplus in trade in goods with the rest of the world in March 2024, compared with +pound 19.1 bn in March 2023, according to Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Uni…
AJMAN: The Ajman Department of Finance and the Federal Tax Authority (FTA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding the rules and standards for disclosing information held by the Authority or its employees.
The MoU aims to strengthen…
RAS AL KHAIMAH: Ras Al Khaimah’s credit rating has been upgraded to ‘A+’ from the previous ‘A’, by the international credit rating agency Fitch Ratings. The upgrade reflects the emirate’s improved credit metrics driven by stronger medium-term growth f…
ABU DHABI: The International Energy Agency (IEA) has said that clean technology manufacturing investments worldwide reached US$200 billion in 2023, an increase of more than 70 percent compared to 2022.
In its latest report, IEA explained that investm…
SHANGHAI: The Yangtze River Delta region, China’s foreign trade hub, saw its imports and exports reach a high of 5.04 trillion yuan (about US$0.7 trillion) in the first four months of this year, up 5.6 percent year-on-year, with the value of imports a…
ABU DHABI: SAFEEN Group, part of AD Ports Group, has announced it is trialling an electric tug within their Marine Services fleet, the first of its kind in the Middle East, which will be deployed at AD Ports Group’s flagship facility, Khalifa Port.
U…
DUBAI: Yalla Group Limited has announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2024, ending on 31st March. The company’s revenues surpassed the AED289 million mark (US$78.7 million), marking a 7.1% increase from the …
DUBAI: The UAE has ranked first in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and 18th globally in the World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Development Index (TTDI) .
According to the report released today, the UAE raised its score by 4.4 pe…
