Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's general budget recorded a deficit of $9.86 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023,...
Dubai, UAE--South Korea has pressed for boosting cooperation with the UAE in the field of advanced technology and artificial intelligence...
Israel is anticipating a significant influx of Emirati and Bahraini tourists as the global tourism industry starts recovering from the...Israel expects 100,000 tourists a year from the UAE and Bahrain, with each tourist spending $1,500 per vacation
The Jewish state is expected to make $150 million annually in revenues from the Gulf tourists
The new five-pillar plan apparently aligns with Bahrain’s Economic Vision 2030 and its intention to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by...The multi-year plan is said to represent one of Bahrain’s largest economic reform programs
It apparently aims to enhance the economy’s long-term competitiveness and support the post-Covid-19 recovery
Masdar City Free Zone has been facilitating the processing and submission of Golden Visas for eligible persons and their families...The Golden Visa is a 10-year residency for certain professions including specialized degree-holders and others.
Golden Visa is of particular relevance to Masdar City as it hosts more than 900 companies, says Executive Director Abdulla Balalaa.
The UAE's payments industry, like several other countries in the world, suffered an impact far less severe than initially anticipated...Like other countries, the industry in UAE suffered the Covid-19 impact less severe than anticipated, according to Boston Consulting Group.
The national payment revenues in the UAE expected to grow by 67 percent between 2020 to 2030.
The violators were arrested during a clampdown conducted in the Muharraq governorate by the LMRA Labor Inspection Directorate.They are to be deported in compliance with the law, Bahrain’s Labor Market Regulatory Authority or LMRA has said
It has also said it would step up such inspections in cooperation with competent authorities within the joint efforts with the Ministry of Interior
A top law official in the UAE has detailed several cases where the judicial system fined and jailed people for...In one case, the former employee of a Dubai bank was convicted of embezzling more than AED5.23 million (around $1.42 million)
The money belonged to real-estate development companies and was deposited with the bank
Russian tourists are finally returning to the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh six years after a terrorist strike.Russian tourists are beginning to return to Sharm el-Sheikh six years after a terror attack
The 2015 attack had seen the downing of a Metrojet plane that killed 224 mostly Russian passengers
This is bad news for Lebanon, which had been counting on financial assistance from the Gulf to rescue its economy....The row has already seen Saudi Arabia ban the imports of Lebanese goods and Kuwait and Bahrain expel Lebanese envoys
It is a blow to a country already in the grip of crippling political and economic crises
- The Ministry of Interior of Jordan has confirmed that strict measures will be taken against expatriates who did not receive...
Expatriates in Jordan are allowed to obtain the vaccine for free
They are not required to present a residence permit or a work permit to get the vaccine
Leaders of the world's most advanced nations are hoping to hammer out a way forward on climate change and vaccine...In their first in-person gathering since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the relaunch of the global economy will also be front and center on the two-day agenda
The stakes are high, with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres warning G20 leaders to show "more ambition and more action"
