INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

Bank of Sharjah profit up 39%

Bank's total assets grow 10% to $14.4 billion.

DIB H1 net profit $1bn

Gross revenue increased 10% year on year

SIB H1 profit up 15.3%

Total operating income rises 20.5 percent.

flydubai Aleppo flights resumed

The flights were resumed after nearly 14 years.

Samsung biggest chip investor

The tech giant invested nearly $59.2bn in 2025.
  • Members of the UAE-EU Parliamentary Friendship Group of the Federal National Council (FNC), headed by Sarah Mohammed Falkinaz, Chairperson of...

    The two sides affirmed the importance of strengthening their parliamentary cooperation.

    They also discussed relations between the UAE and Germany and of enhancing them in science, health, higher education.

  • The upcoming COP27 climate summit in Egypt must mark a leap from the process of hammering out a treaty to...

    Diplomats from nearly 200 countries are gathering in the Red Sea resort for the November 6-18 conference.

    The US and the European Union - fearful of creating an open-ended reparations framework - have dragged their feet.

  • World food prices held steady in October, though cereal prices rose over uncertainty of a deal giving safe passage for...

    FAO said its price index averaged 135.9 points in October, marginally lower from September.

    Wheat prices were up 3.2 percent, mostly reflecting continued uncertainties related to the Black Sea Grain Initiative, the UN body said.

  • HELSINKI, FINLAND - Heading a high-level delegation to Finland, Saudi Arabia's Minister of Commerce and Chairman of the Board of...

    The Saudi delegation was in Finland to participate in a forum organized by Business Finland in cooperation with the Federation of Saudi Chambers.

    The forum was attended by around 120 officials from the public and private sectors in the two countries.

  • An economic report issued by the MEP---the ministry will publish such reports quarterly on domestic and global economic updates---real non-oil...

    Manufacturing, wholesale, retail trade, restaurants and hotels, construction and transport were among the key contributors to the kingdom’s non-oil GDP growth in Q3.

    The ministry said that “despite persistent supply-chain bottlenecks clogging up global trade”, the kingdom’s trade balance climbed by 87 percent to SAR 72 billion ($19.15 billion)

  • AMMAN, JORDAN - Jordan's King Abdullah received Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Amman on Thursday and stressed the importance...

    King Abdullah stressed on the need to activate efforts to reach a political solution to the crisis in Syria.

    The King emphasized on safeguarding Syria's unity and territorial integrity.

  • Q3 revenue was up 11.6 percent at US$10.11 billion.

    The company said the results make it possible to confirm its financial targets for 2022, which it raised during the previous quarter.

    Telefonica said that it expects its core earnings growth to be "mid-to-high-end of the low single digit".

  • Hundreds of smaller shrines opened up in Iraq -- many outside the purview of the religious authorities, which are often...

    Iraq's Waqf, the body in charge of managing Shiite mosques, tombs and other places of worship, reports that only 135 out of Iraq's 664 known sanctuaries are formally registered

    Most such sites are dedicated to relatives or descendants of Imam Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed and the founder of the Shiite strand of Islam

  • Hamadi started a decade ago by gathering donations to buy 50 solar water heaters and 140 photovoltaic panels.

    Hamadi started a decade ago by gathering donations to buy 50 solar water heaters and 140 photovoltaic panels

    Chayeb, a farmer, said the Makthar model had helped his family and given his children better school meals and business skills

  • Some of Germany’s leading industrial companies participated in a roundtable event hosted by the UAE Ministry of Industry and Advanced...

    From the UAE side, representatives from ADNOC, Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development, Abu Dhabi Investment Office, and TAZIZ were present.

    The delegates also discussed the future of supply chain opportunities in a post-pandemic world.