The UAE and Colombia have completed the first phase of a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement to strengthen trade and investment relations. Authorities expect to finalise...

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority has increased the number of shares available in its initial public offering to nine billion ordinary shares, from 8.5 billion,...

Abu Dhabi Media and China's Huawei Technologies have teamed up to add the UAE public service broadcaster's ADtv mobile application to the Huawei AppGallery, one...

Shares in Asia were mostly higher Monday as gains carried over from an upbeat finish last week on Wall Street. Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul...

Turkish inflation is galloping towards a fresh 20-year high, leaving the lira increasingly vulnerable by depriving the currency of a buffer against market sell-offs.A three-month...

There’s been a boom in online furniture rental companies lately. These are sites where, instead of buying items like chairs, beds, and couches outright, you...

A key UN body says in a report that there must be "rapid, deep and immediate" cuts in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Global emissions of...

Lebanon's central bank governor Riad Salameh has denied reports circulating in the country that the regulator is bankrupt. "What is being circulated about the bankruptcy...

Ramadan has begun and travellers are starting to make plans for the coming Eid holiday. Predicted to fall on May 1 to 5 in the...

Carlos Vasquez is a master of video fighting game "Mortal Kombat" despite being unable to see the action on screen because he is blind. The...

The global demand for the Textile Yarn Market was valued at USD 11.9 Billion in 2019 is expected to reach USD 16.0Billion in 2026 and...

Many apparel companies have started selling larger sizes in recent years, but some people who wear plus-size clothes say makers of technical athletic gear and...

Abu Dhabi's non-oil economy grew an annual 4.1 per cent last year, driven by government’s robust economic policies and the emirate’s speedy recovery from the...

Emirates airline's cargo arm transported more than one billion Covid-19 vaccines doses worldwide, in the 18 months after its first trial shipment of doses in...

Welcome to the New Year! While Earth celebrated 2022’s arrival with displays of fireworks, the greatest “fireworks show” in our solar system often occurs on...

India Inc’s hiring activity recorded a 16% year-on-year growth in March amid removal of restrictions and a pick-up in business momentum prompting employers to strengthen...

The release of the latest Henley Passport Index highlights the impact the current conflict in Ukraine is having on travel freedom and mobility. The index,...

It comes after new board member, Tesla boss Elon Musk, asked his followers in a Twitter poll whether they wanted the feature. Many users have...

Russia's military offensive in Ukraine, and the subsequent sanctions imposed on Moscow as a result, threaten the uneven recovery of developing East Asia and Pacific...

AMD has confirmed to Tom's Hardware that a bug in its GPU driver is, in fact, changing Ryzen CPU settings in the BIOS without permission....

The International Space Station (ISS) is set to become busier than usual this week when its crew welcomes on board four new colleagues from Houston-based...

Singapore is all set to relax entry rules from April 1. As per the reports, all fully vaccinated passengers will, however, be required to undergo...

The project aims to provide broadband connections using a constellation of 3,236 satellites. Rival Starlink is said to have more than 2,300 satellites in orbit...

The UAE attracted Dh76 billion ($20.7bn) in foreign direct investments in 2021, up 3.9 per cent from 2020, as a result of measures the country...

Pakistan textile and apparel industry is expecting a staggering 40% growth in the current 2021-2022 FY. Recently, Abdul Razak Dawood, Commerce Adviser to the Prime...

Oil prices settled 2 per cent higher at the close of trading on Friday but lost for a second consecutive week after International Energy Agency...

Adventure travellers take note, there's a new all-suite luxury explorer ship ready to start sailing around the Galapagos Islands at the end of summer. Making...

Smartphones with 50-megapixel main cameras are expected to go mainstream in 2022 as production costs for sensors decrease, according to Counterpoint Research.The share of smartphones...

The Association of Banks in Lebanon (ABL) said the country's agreement with the International Monetary Fund marks a “crucial first step” towards the country's economic...

Nissan is working with NASA on a new type of battery for electric vehicles that promises to charge quicker and be lighter yet safe, the...

LThe Federal Trade Commission filed lawsuits against Walmart and Kohl's, claiming false advertising on a wide range of "bamboo" products. Walmart and Kohl's have sold...

Hatta Resorts and Hatta Wadi Hub has extended its season until May 15, and is open throughout Ramadan for the very first time. For the...

Two US technology companies, Block and Blockstream, are preparing to launch a fully solar-powered Bitcoin creation centre, or mine, in June, in an effort to...

Operating conditions for companies that use aluminium stagnated at the end of the first quarter of 2022 as output levels contracted and new orders faced...

Iraq can ensure crude oil exports of more than 3.3 million barrels per day from its southern terminals, as the country looks to leverage higher...

With international travel finally opening up properly, people are starting to consider things like summer holidays and what travel options they want to make this...

Microsoft's LinkedIn boosted subscription revenue by 8 per cent after arming its sales team with artificial intelligence software that not only predicts clients at risk...

The U.S. dollar accelerated its upswing against the yen on Monday afternoon, rising to the lower 125 yen, a level unseen since June 2015.The dollar...

The institution forecasts Russia's invasion will cause more economic damage across eastern Europe and parts of Asia than the coronavirus pandemic. The conflict in Ukraine...

MSC Cruises held a special celebratory event on board MSC Lirica in the port of Piraeus for nearly 150 members of the Greek travel industry...

Egypt’s Paymob, a digital payments service provider for businesses, is expanding to Pakistan as its first international market. The Cairo-based FinTech also plans to enter...

Sri Lanka will temporarily suspend foreign debt payments to avoid a hard default, the central bank governor said on Tuesday, with its limited foreign reserves...

Honda accelerates its manufacturing capabilities in BangladeshJapanese autogiant Honda has recently revealed its new plant in Bangladesh, as part of the country’s aim to establish...

Honda is investing 5 trillion yen ($40 billion) over the next decade in research, especially to realize a major shift to ecological electric vehicles, the...

The 2022 event will take place April 26-28 at the Villa Erba in Cernobbio with 69 exhibitors. In addition to 29 of Italian companies, exhibitors...

Safeen Feeders, AD Ports Group’s feeder services company, has linked up with Saif Powertec, a listed ports and logistics company in Bangladesh, to boost trade...

Greece is removing all pandemic-related restrictions ahead of its peak summer tourist season. From May 2, tourists will no longer need to present vaccine passports,...

Russia's war in Ukraine is still being counted in days, but images of atrocities already number in the hundreds of thousands. The conflict is the...

Lebanon’s agreement with the International Monetary Fund last week for $3 billion in funding as part of a four-year deal is expected to fuel “reform...

The plastic industry is targetting to more than double its annual exports to $25 billion by 2025, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said on...

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a "positive assessment” about their co-operation in the Opec+ alliance in a...

Shipments of some Apple products, as well as Dell and Lenovo laptops are likely to face delays if China’s Covid-19 lockdowns persist, analysts said, as...

Food inflation poses a growing challenge to India’s economic recovery, economists say, with businesses and households feeling the pinch from higher prices amid the global...

Shares were mostly lower in Asia after China reported Monday that its economy expanded at a 4.8% annual pace in January-March. Benchmarks fell in Tokyo,...

In the coming days, the famous Kadapakkam lake in Chennai will be transformed into an eco park by the Greater Chennai Corporation. When done, the...

Twitter has dropped a major roadblock in front of Elon Musk’s effort to take over the company, leaving investors to wonder about the mercurial Tesla...

China’s central bank has announced a spate of measures to help an economy that has been hit by lockdowns to control the current Covid-19 outbreak,...

Corals with the highest potential to escape destruction from marine heat waves are predominantly located along the northern shoreline of Cuba. And other promising sites...

Netflix, the world's largest streaming platform, was one of the companies that bucked the trend in terms of performance amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Millions of...

The Russia-Ukraine war will test the resilience of the global financial system, posing a threat to financial stability and presenting policymakers with challenging trade-offs, the...

Russia has lifted restrictions on the import of various agricultural products from Turkey, according to an official statement Saturday.In a written statement made by the...

One of the world's leading and largest e-commerce youth work and travel platforms has partnered with five international brands as part of a strategy to...

In a separate report released on Wednesday, the IMF said countries face tough choices when dealing with rising inflation, the lingering pandemic and historically high...

Businesses have never relied so much on computers and cloud services to get the job done, and that brings opportunities – but it means your...

Avolites has been chosen by systems integrators Visual Systems to power the lighting control at The Londoner hotel. Billed as the world’s first “super boutique”...

The combined pressures of global heating and farming are driving a "substantial decline" of insects across the globe, according to UK researchers. They say we...

Low-rated frontier markets and oil-importing countries in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region are most exposed to an extended funding shock amid the...

The global COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with robust demand for next-generation electronics, has kept the capital equipment market humming. Last year, global sales of semiconductor manufacturing...

Scientists examined the impact of 1,500 protected areas in 68 countries, focusing their analysis on wetlands and waterbirds. They found that, in terms of how...

Publicly, Elon Musk has said he doesn’t care about the economics of owning Twitter. But during a hectic, multi-day scramble to line up $46.5 billion...

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani abandoned a plan to buy a teetering Indian retailer amid protracted legal challenges from Amazon.com, potentially ending one episode of the broader...

A Calhoun County plastics manufacturer is planning to invest $54 million over the next five years in building and machinery upgrades to support its Sandy...

India has the ambition and the capacity to fill at least part of the global wheat supplies gap, an agricultural chemicals company chief has claimed....

It was one of the brands that helped Japan's carmakers become established globally after the Second World War.Despite selling millions of cars around the world,...

Tiverton, UK-based textile manufacturer Heathcoat Fabrics has been recognised with a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Innovation. This follows the company’s development of a...

Irish medtech start-up SymPhysis Medical has raised €1.9 million in funding to help the company finish its product development and push into the US market....

Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk both want to colonise space. Nasa is also trying to put people on to the dusty surface of Mars. But...

Elon Musk finally did it. Twitter, the social media titan whose board Mr Musk refused to join, is now his, making the world's wealthiest person...

Sharjah’s gross domestic product grew 4.8 per cent in 2021 as the emirate’s non-oil sector drove its recovery from coronavirus-induced headwinds. The emirate registered Dh130.5...

In the effort to reduce the presence of plastic in consumer goods, packaging seems like a good place to start.In the vast majority of non-food...

The Russia-Ukraine conflict has upended commodity markets, altering global trade, production and consumption patterns that will keep food and energy prices at “historically high levels”...

In January 2021, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed the size of the software company’s security business for the first time. The number was big. Nadella...

The Biden administration is scrapping old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs, speeding an ongoing trend toward more efficient lighting that officials say will save households, schools and...

Free zones in Dubai are on track to boost their contribution to the emirate's gross domestic product to Dh250 billion ($68bn) by 2030, according to...

The printing process is intricate and complex. Printing is a finely tuned and calibrated engineering feat with thousands of parts all moving in perfect harmony....