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Emirates to restart flights between London Gatwick and Dubai in December

The carrier will resume services to its second London gateway with a daily flight starting December 10

Dubai penthouse Atlantis The Royal Resort & Residences Palm Jumeirah

In pics: Dubai’s most expensive luxury penthouse listed for $49m

The 25,000 sqft five-bed penthouse triplex is located at at the Atlantis The Royal Resort & Residences in Palm Jumeirah

Saudi Aramco makes second highest profit on surging oil prices

Saudi Aramco, Air Products, ACWA Power, and Air Products Qudra sign agreements for $12bn JV in Jazan

The consortium is expected to increase job opportunities

LOT Polish Airlines

LOT Polish Airlines begins flights between Dubai and Warsaw

The airline will operate thrice weekly direct flights between the two cities

Saudi Arabia may issue a green bond by 2022, ‘if not before’

The global market for debt that complies with environmental, social or governance goals (ESG) looks set to top $1 trillion this year

In pics: Saudi reveals new luxury mountain resort as part of the Red Sea project

Work on the 60-key property began in July 2021

Miral

Abu Dhabi’s Miral launches new strategy to accelerate data-driven digital transformation

With the implementation of the strategy, Miral will expand its present investment in big data and predictive data analytics.

Dubai SME

Fourth edition of Dubai SME 100 programme launched

It ranks the top 100 SMEs in Dubai based on their performance

Expo 2020 Dubai

Six days of paid leave for Dubai government employees to attend Expo 2020 Dubai

The leave can be used at anytime during the period of Expo 2020, which runs from October 1, 2021 until March 31, 2022

Dubai Metro

Seating restrictions eased in Dubai metro, taxis and buses

All the seats within the metro trains and public buses can now be occupied

Acciona to build, operate 3 sewage treatment plants in Saudi Arabia

These new contracts are worth a combined $1bn

UAE reports 286 Covid-19 infections, 4 deaths

The total number of recorded cases has risen to 735,180

Ferran Torres Manchester City Expo 2020 Dubai

Expo 2020 Dubai is Manchester City’s new training kit partner

Manchester City will also host daily football sessions at the Expo site, led by dedicated City coaching staff

Tele dentist

Over 85% of UAE, Saudi Arabia residents ready to embrace tele-dentistry – survey

Align Technology to unveil findings of whitepaper report at 2nd Digital Health MENA Forum

Developer Ithra Dubai to launch Gold Souk extension in Q4 2021

The extension includes Maryam and Hind Plazas, covers an area of around one million and two hundred thousand square feet

Dubai carrier Emirates’ A380 aircraft to serve 27 cities by November end

Over the next six weeks, the airline will re-instate its A380 services to destinations such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Johannesburg and Madrid, among others

ADNOC Drilling completes IPO bookbuild raising of over $1.1bn

Total gross demand for the IPO amounted to over $34bn

Saudi sovereign wealth fund acquires 25% stake in Emaar the Economic City

The transaction is in line with Public Investment Fund’s Strategy 2021-2025, which focuses on building strategic economic partnerships

Audi Dubai Police

Dubai Police acquires fleet of 100 Audi cars

It obtained the vehicles by way of a partnership with Al Nabooda Automobiles

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Saudi to soon start providing Covid-19 vaccine booster shots to those aged 60 and above

The kingdom has so far administered more than 41 million vaccine doses across the country

Bahrain plans to double VAT in bid to curb deficit

Bahrain’s budget shortfall is projected to drop to 9.1 per cent of gross domestic product this year compared with 18.3 per cent of GDP in 2020

Dubai non-oil trade

Dubai’s non-oil external trade grew 31% y-on-y to Dhs722bn in H1 2021

China remained Dubai’s biggest trading partner with Dhs86.7bn worth of trade, up 30.7 per cent over H1 2020

Dubai Court

Dubai introduces Middle East’s first virtual court for labour litigations

The virtual court will hear cases involving companies and employees working within the Jebel Ali Free Zone

Expo 2020: Sheikh Mohammed tours main operations centre ahead of opening this week

A five-lane drive-through PCR testing facility and a PCR screening centre with a capacity of 10,000 tests per day have been set up at the Expo site

Eric Xu, Rotating Chairman, Huawei

Huawei Connect kicks off; reaffirms continuous innovation for faster digitalisation

Huawei cloud has brought together more than 2.3 million developers, 14,000 consulting partners, and 6,000 technology partners

YAP

Dubai-based fintech YAP launches region’s ‘first’ virtual card

YAP, which launched earlier this year, claims it is now “onboarding hundreds per day”

DDoS cyberattacks

Securing a new world of work – the future of XDR

Native XDR’s approach to detect complex cybersecurity attacks allows it to drastically reduce the number of false positives

The Priceless Cube Visual Mastercard Expo 2020

Mastercard unveils range of initiatives lined up for Expo 2020 Dubai

The official payment technology partner of Expo will showcase its Cube multi-sensory installation at the event

Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways adds more flights to Seychelles

The airline will offer five weekly flights on the route from October 7

Emirates Draw

Inaugural Dhs77.7m Emirates Draw commences with participant winning Dhs777,777

The winning combination of numbers were 8841218