- World food prices are still high but have fallen by a fifth compared to a year ago when prices soared...
FAO said the fall in benchmark prices was "driven by declines in world quotations for cereals and vegetable oils."
The UN agency added that food remained expensive for developing countries highly dependent on imports.
- Dubai, UAE -- A total of 557,000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) were operating in the UAE at the end...
Minister of Economy Abdullah bin Touq Al Marri said the number was in line with UAE’s ambitious plan to achieving 1 million SMEs by the end of 2030.
The UAE banks provided AED 83.3 billion ($23 billion) in financial facilities to small and medium-sized enterprises in 2022.
- Abu Dhabi, UAE - The UAE and Vietnam signed Thursday a declaration of intent to start negotiations for a comprehensive...
The UAE is the leading trade partner of Vietnam in the Arab region, accounting for 39 percent of Vietnamese trade with the region’s countries.
The two sides discussed ways of strengthening their cooperation in the areas of trade, investment, the new economy, industry and energy.
- ByteDance's success in China's highly competitive internet sector has been largely thanks to its popular short video app Douyin.
The reasons for the losses are unknown, but Zhang is still the second-richest entrepreneur in the world under the age of 40.
Zhang co-founded ByteDance in Beijing in 2012, but resigned from the group in 2021 in the midst of regulatory tightening.
- The economy committee of the National Council, the lower house of parliament, asked the government for an analysis of the...
The emergency takeover by UBS has sparked unease and criticism within Switzerland, where Credit Suisse was a pillar of the country's totemic banking sector.
Following a string of scandals, the collapse of three US regional banks in March left Credit Suisse looking shaky amid fears of contagion and shares nosedived.
- Dubai, UAE -- Dubai recorded real estate deals worth AED2.3 billion ($626 million) on Wednesday, according to Dubai Land Department....
The deals included 502 sales transactions worth AED1.44 billion, in addition to 95 mortgage deals of AED898.52 million.
The sales included 465 villas and apartments worth AED1.1 billion, and 37 land plots worth AED340.65 million.
- A continued slowdown in almost all the world's advanced economies is expected to drag global growth below three percent this...
Global growth almost halved last year to 3.4 percent as the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine rippled through the world economy.
Asia's emerging markets are expected to see substantial increases in economic output with India and China to account for half of all growth.




















