Leading stories of the day
Humans will be extinct in 100 years because the planet will be uninhabitable, according to Australian microbiologist Frank Fenner, one of the leaders of the effort to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s. He blames…
|TAP Special| The airlines muddle involving Gulf and Western airlines got murkier, with the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, representing more…
|TAP Special| Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Forbes have settled Alwaleed’s libel suit against the Forbes and…
|By TAP Staff| LSE-listed leading UAE healthcare player NMC Health announced entering into an agreement to acquire ProVita International Medical Center,…
Emirates Airline President Tim Clark said Tuesday that if the U.S. were to void its open skies policy on aviation traffic…
|TAP Special| The atmosphere at the IATA conference in Miami was surcharged with tension, with the animosity between Western and Middle…
|TAP Special| Sections of public opinion in the Arab Gulf see anti-Arab bias and the grudge in losing the bid for…
|TAP Special| The release of a new book, titled The Ugly Game, which claims to contain damning evidence of malpractices within…
|By TAP Staff| Etihad has formally submitted a document to the United States government rebutting allegations by U.S. carriers that it…
Shares in Dubai Islamic mortgage provider Amlak Finance fell sharply as they resumed trading on Tuesday after being suspended for nearly…
|By Fiona Maharg-Bravo |Big Oil is too confident about crude prices. After a 40 percent rally from January’s six-year low, the…
|By K Raveendran| Qatar has maintained complete silence over any possible connections with the indictment of FIFA officials on various charges,…
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has ramped up its activities in Southeast Asia so effectively that there is now an entire…
|TAP Special| It has been stated that the indictment of the FIFA bosses by the US Attorney General is not likely…
|By K Raveendran| The battle for supremacy between American and European legacy airlines on one side and the Gulf carriers of…
|By K Raveendran| Samena Capital, which recently completed the purchase of UAE’s global ceramics leader RAK Ceramics, has acquired a significant…
|By K Raveendran| Bank customers often find themselves being led up the garden path by the sweet talk of sales agents…
By TAP Staff|Arcapita, the global investment management firm, announcedthe completion of the sale of J.Jill Group Inc., a leading US-based multi-channel…
|Special by TAP Staff| RERA’s Rent Index system continues to be unrealistic as it fails to factor in variables such as…
|Special byTAP Staff|Abu Dhabi-based Aabar Investments is expected to reap rich dividends from its involvement with Mongolia’s coal industry in the…
|By TAP Staff| Oil is poised to slump to $45 US a barrel by October as a surplus of crude and…
|By TAP Staff| Arch Reinsurance Ltd. (Arch) announced completion of its acquisition of Gulf Reinsurance Ltd. (Gulf Re), a specialty reinsurer…
Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB) has picked six banks to arrange fixed income investor meetings from Thursday for a potential benchmark size,…
Top UAE banks paying off the emergency loans they previously took from the Ministry of Finance is a sign they now…
DP World, one of the world’s biggest port operators, has launched a $500 million, five-year bond that will price later on…
|By TAP Staff| The US CFTC has filed a civil action against Heet Khara and Nasim Salim, residents of the United…
|TAP Special| Faced with a continued upswing in capacity creation, Dubai hospitality sector is under pressure and is forced to continuously…
|By TAP Staff| The sale of residential properties in Dubai may continue to slide by one to five percent in the…