Category: Business

ABU DHABI: The UAE Cybersecurity Council announced today the completion of a new series of specialised training courses within the ‘Cyber Sniper’ initiative, a comprehensive cybersecurity training programme designed to develop UAE government employees…

ROME: The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) trimmed its forecast for global cereal production in 2024, now pegging it at 2 851 million tonnes, almost on par with that of 2023.

The new Cereal Supply and Demand Brief attribu…

BRUSSELS: In the second quarter of 2024, seasonally adjusted GDP increased by 0.2 percent in both the euro area and the EU, compared with the previous quarter, according to an estimate published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Unio…

Hangzhou: A new high-speed railway linking Hangzhou and Wenzhou in east China’s Zhejiang Province began operations on Friday, Xinhu reported.

The 276-km line, with a designed speed of 350 km per hour, has nine stations. Its operation offers a rapid t…

Manila: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved an ambitious new road map to guide its evolution and scale up its support on key challenges facing Asia and the Pacific, including accelerated efforts to combat climate change and expand private se…

Rome: The benchmark for world food commodity prices declined marginally in August, as decreases in quotations for sugar, meat and cereals outweighed increases in those for vegetable oils and dairy products, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the…

Doha: QNB noted in its weekly note that G-7 countries’ fiscal conditions are set to deteriorate on the back of a high demand for more government spending, high nominal policy rates and the deployment of fiscal-monetary coordination.

QNB said that emb…

French President Emmanuel Macron discussed with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz how to make Europe more competitive in international markets, in light of the growth of other economies, primarily the Chinese and American economies.

The Elysee Palace sai…