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Honda shares soar 16%

The surge came after the auto giant announced a $7bn buyback.

Mubadala acquires stakes from GHH

It acquired an 80 percent stake in Global Medical Supply Chain.

ADNOC Drilling closes JV

It is a JV between ADNOC Drilling, SLB and Patterson UTI.

Boeing to boost 787 production

The firm will invest$1bn to ramp up production in South Carolina.

ADNOC signs deal with PETRONAS

Under the agreement, ADNOC will supply 1m tons of LNG per year.

Iraq asks Sweden to extradite accused in Quran burning incident

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - Baghdad has asked Sweden to extradite Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, who stoked international outrage by desecrating the Quran,...

MBR University launches PhD program in biomedical sciences

Genetics of developmental diseases, reproduction, cancer biology, diabetes, etc., the focus of research Applicants can apply for the program by...

Cyber crime soars during Covid pandemic as fraudsters fleece gullible people

Swindlers passing themselves off as representatives of big companies are cheating people of money using Internet Experts say fraud has...

Emirates Foundation, BP partner to support mental health initiative

Emirates Foundation is an independent organization that works hand-in-hand with both public and private sector partners to respond to society’s...

MAKTABA celebrates winners of ‘Little Writer in the Big Book’ contest

Launched in 2011, the competition has attracted more than 2,000 entries during the past eight years 

GISEC 2021 Update: Experts discuss hacker threats to working from home

  Disabling of firewalls, reuse of passwords, installation of over-simple passwords biggest mistakes when working from home Companies need to...

Expats leave Oman in droves as country struggles to contain unemployment

Some 200,000 expats leave Oman as country wrestles with rising unemployment The Coronavirus pandemic and low oil prices last year...

Midday work ban in UAE to last till Sept 15 from Jun 15

An employer will have to pay for any time exceeding the 8-hour shift Violators to pay a fine of $1361...

Sharjah concludes campaign to update landowners’ data

Landowners yet to update their property data can approach Real Estate Registration Department  

UAE, Uzbekistan sign agreement to implement humanitarian projects

      Completion of work on a women and children's hospital in the Uzbek city Nukus part of the...

Abu Dhabi Book Fair to digitize Arabic prose in audiobooks

One of the  notable works covered by the series includes the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun

Artists utilize technology against AI copycats

NEW YORK, US - Artists under siege by artificial intelligence (AI) that studies their work, then replicates their styles, have teamed...

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Mahsa Amini death exposes rival faces of Tehran

For the past week since the 22-year-old's death, protesters have taken to the streets each evening in various parts of...

Death toll mounts in Iran protests as online services cut

Amini, 22, died last week after her arrest by the Islamic republic's feared morality police for allegedly wearing a hijab...

The ‘majestic’ Singapore orchid named in honor of Queen Elizabeth

After Queen Elizabeth II's death last week, the city-state's Botanic Gardens loaned a towering sprig of Dendrobium Elizabeth to the...

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Rise and fall of luxury-loving former Malaysia first lady

Rosmah Mansor, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison and given a US$216 million fine for graft, has been...
  • Born on December 10, 1951, Rosmah was the only child of a Malay school headmaster and his teacher wife in southern Negeri Sembilan state.
  • Rosmah has reportedly accumulated an enormous collection of luxury handbags, and is said to shop at Harrods in London, Chanel in Hawaii, Saks Fifth Avenue in New York.

Netflix in the soup for Mexican drug ‘queen’ show

Sandra Avila Beltran has filed a claim with Mexico's intellectual property agency alleging that the character Teresa Mendoza in "La...
  • Avila Beltran wants 40 percent of the royalties from Netflix and Spanish-language television network Telemundo, for hurting her reputation
  • The second season of the "La Reina del Sur" won an International Emmy Award for Best Non-English Language US Primetime Program in 2020

Women of Gaza struggle to break free

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said 38 percent of women in Gaza faced physical or psychological violence from their...
  • Palestinian civil society group registered six killings and suspicious deaths related to domestic violence in 2019, a figure which rose to 19 the following year
  • Fifteen years since the Israeli-led blockade of Gaza began, it is almost impossible for women fleeing violence to leave the Palestinian enclave