LONDON: Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, announced a partnership with Tourism Malaysia to attract visitors from Europe and the Middle East to Malaysia, via the airline’s Abu Dhabi hub. The agreement was signed at the World Travel Market in London, attended by representatives from both organisations and trade partners.  The agreement between the two organisations …

PUTRAJAYA: A total of 34 exhibitors comprising 14 hotels, 15 tourism product owners and five travel agencies are taking part in the Tourism Malaysia Carnival from 7th until 9 November 2019 at the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture’s Sanggar Pujangga Hall in Precinct 5, here. It is part of Tourism Malaysia’s initiative with the local tourism industry players to …

DUBAI: Union Coop, the largest Consumer Cooperative in the UAE revealed that the total transactions through its electronic ’Share Trading’ platform accounted for AED 204,302 Million since the platform’s launch 5 months ago on May 22nd till the beginning of November 2019. Commenting on this achievement, the Chairman of Union Coop ‘H.E. Majid Hamad Rahma Al Shamsi’ said: “Since the …

DUBAI: Dubai International (DXB) is maintaining its position as the world’s busiest hub for international passengers with traffic reaching 64.5 million passengers in the first nine months of 2019.  Key facts and figures A total of 23,217,492 passengers travelled through DXB in the third quarter (-2.4% YoY), bringing the year to date traffic to 64,495,241 (-4.5% YoY). The slight contraction …

DUBAI: Emirates Skywards has launched Skywards Exclusives, a unique airline loyalty initiative that offers curated and carefully crafted experiences from Emirates’ expansive sponsorships portfolio. World-class sporting events, performances, concerts, VIP hospitality and thrilling, money-can’t-buy experiences globally are now just Skywards Miles away for its 25+ million members. Why watch on TV or the small screen of your smartphone when you …

DUBAI: The Acting President of the Republic of Mauritius His Excellency Paramasivum Pillay Vyapoory at the Indian Excellence Awards Dubai says that the awards, recognitions and conferences encourage and teach entrepreneurs to do better business and serve the mankind. He was addressing a crème de la crème gathering of UAE’s Tamil business community at the Indian Excellence Conference and Awards, held …

KARACHI: Elysee Productions launched the title song of its maiden cinematic venture ‘Sacch’, featuring the vocals of the legendary Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. The title song gives glimpses of the film’s lead characters who seem to be in great pain and despair. The heart-wrenching melody is penned by Fatima Najeeb and the director of the film’s music is …

ABU DHABI: Trade relations between Brazil and Arab countries continue to soar to greater heights as seen in the recording of a Year-on-Year (YoY) growth of 50.57 per cent in trade balance from USD 3.1 billion from January to October 2018 to 4.68 billion during the same period of 2019, according to figures released by Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC). …

By Rafiq Vayani DUBAI: Sindh Provincial Minister for Health and Population Welfare Dr. Azra Fazal Pechuho said on Friday that the delay in the treatment of rabid dog-bite cases caused death to the citizens in Sindh. She said that National Institute of Health (NIH) Islamabad prepares anti-rabies vaccine (ARV) but the amount of production is not sufficient. The precious time …

News Desk ABU DHABI: The Airport Belgrade Catering (ABC) company, recently fully acquired by Emirati-owned Cirta Group, a stable of companies supported by government entity Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development (KFED), has signed an agreement with Etihad Airways to provide air hospitality, on-board retail services and logistic solutions over an initial period of three years that will cover more than 700 Etihad flights …