Four coronavirus cases have been detected from charter flights carrying tennis players, coaches and officials to Melbourne for the Australian Open, forcing 47 players into strict hotel quarantine.
Health authorities confirmed there'd been three (...)
Sultan Haitham Bin Tarek Al-Said of Oman issued two royal decrees on Monday setting up a new legislative council for the country and establishing mechanisms to appoint a crown-prince and guarantee the stability and transfer of power.
Last year, (...)
The start of the Formula One season has been delayed after the Australian Grand Prix was postponed from March to November because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Australian race in Melbourne has been rescheduled from March 21 to Nov. 21. The Chinese (...)
Qatari vehicles crossed into Saudi Arabia through a land border on Saturday for the first time since Arab states severed diplomatic and transport ties with Doha in mid-2017, Saudi state TV said, following a deal this week to restore relations.
“It's (...)
United Arab Emirates' Al-Ain Film Festival will open its third edition on 23 January.
Scheduled to run until 27 January, the festival will include the screening of over 370 films in Abu Dhabi's Madinat Al-Ḥadiqah (Garden City).
Founded in 2019 and (...)
Stakes in two companies affiliated to the National Service Products Organisation (NSPO) affiliated to the Ministry of Defence will be up for grabs this year, said Minister of Planning and Economic Development Hala Al-Said two weeks ago.
The two (...)
Dubai is planning to inoculate 70% of its population with the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech by the end of 2021, in a campaign free of charge for citizens and residents, a health official said.
The financial hub of the United Arab (...)
The National Bank of Egypt (NBE) is leading an alliance of banks working in the Egyptian market to arrange an increase in financing for Oilex, an Egypt-based international company for the extraction of multiple forms of oils.
The NBE and First Abu (...)
Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank – Egypt (ADIB Egypt) announced that Kayan for Sustainable Development has submitted an offer to acquire 90 percent of one of its subsidiaries.
An offer was submitted for 90 percent of Alexandria National Company for Financial (...)
For the rest of the world, 2020 was mainly the year of the coronavirus pandemic and its implications, but for the Gulf region it was about more than that.
The negative economic impacts of the pandemic, coupled with weak oil prices, pushed (...)
It would be impossible to think about Arab cinema in 2010-2020 without taking into account the decade's political and economic circumstances. The global economy had barely survived the crisis of 2008-2009 when the Arab Spring broke out, leading to a (...)
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank – Egypt (ADCB Egypt) has received "The Most Promising Trademark Award" in the Egyptian banking sector for 2020 from the World Union of Arab Bankers.
Ihab El Sewerky, Chairman and Managing Director of the ADCB Egypt Bank, (...)
Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) is mulling the acquisition of a majority stake in Wataniya Petroleum Company, affiliated to the Ministry of Defence's National Service Products Organization (NSPO), sources familiar with the matter told (...)
UAE telecoms operator Etisalat has named Hatem Dowidar, Egyptian national, as its new CEO, the group said in a statement sent to the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange on Wednesday.
Dowidar has been the acting CEO of Etisalat Group since May, succeeding (...)
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is set to receive Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, in Cairo on Wednesday.
According to the Presidential Spokesman Bassam (...)
Ahmed Abul-Gheit's term as Arab League secretary-general ends in May 2021, which means Cairo will have to decide early next year whether it will push for a second Abul-Gheit term or seek backing for another candidate. The cut-off point for the (...)
Saudi Arabia announced a 990 billion riyal ($263.91 billion) budget for 2021 on Tuesday, around 7% less than estimated for this year, as the world's biggest oil exporter seeks to tame a huge deficit caused by lower petroleum revenues and extra (...)
The United Arab Emirates welcomed Morocco's decision to resume diplomatic relations and communications with Israel, crown prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan wrote on twitter.
"This step, a sovereign move, contributes to (...)
Egypt Aluminium: The company reported a 30 per cent increase in sales in the first quarter of 2020-21 compared to the previous quarter to reach LE2.19 billion. The noticeable improvement is attributed to strong production growth that recorded 72,000 (...)
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) plans to complete due diligence and submit a binding offer to acquire Bank Audi's Egyptian subsidiary before the end of the year, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Monday.
The source did not provide any details (...)
الحملة الموسمية تتضمن تخفيضاتٍ تقدمها آلاف المتاجر وتجارب تسوق فريدة وتشكيلات حصرية من المنتجات ومكافآت قيّمة للمتسوقين في أبوظبي
أبوظبي، الإمارات العربية المتحدة، 29 نوفمبر 2020: كشفت عروض أبوظبي، منصة البيع بالتجزئة التابعة لدائرة الثقافة والسياحة (...)
As part of its Impacts programme, Savills, the leading global real estate advisors, has recently published some new research confirming the extent of estimated future global demand in laboratory and office space associated with life science.
The (...)
Sadiq al-Mahdi, Sudan's last democratically elected prime minister and leader of the country's largest political party, died of COVID-19 Thursday in a hospital in the United Arab Emirates, his party said. He was 84.
His body arrived in Sudan for (...)
Abu Dhabi's financial centre, Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), will sign a memorandum of understanding with Israel Securities Authority and Israel's biggest lender, Bank Hapoalim, to support financial technology, ADGM chairman Ahmed Ali al-Sayegh (...)
The Middle East is not the main theme of former US president Barack Obama's new autobiography by any means, but in his book A Promised Land he nevertheless provides vivid details about the Arab Spring, one of major challenges of his first term in (...)
