Anjali Mehta 
More than 2,300 Uzbek companies already operate inside the UAE, yet the two governments believe the commercial relationship is still well below its ceiling. A high-level meeting in Abu Dhabi has now put at least ten sectors on the table for deeper joint ventures. Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri, the UAE’s Minister of Economy and … Read more
When a research house backed by over $850 billion in global assets turns its attention to Gulf energy for the first time, it is less about discovery and more about validation. Bernstein’s new MENA energy coverage puts a formal institutional lens on what regional investors have tracked for years: the UAE’s ability to convert state-owned … Read more
A 98% disclosure compliance rate sounds like a bureaucratic milestone, but for the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, it signals something far more deliberate about where the capital market is headed. When nearly every listed company files on time and collective profits surge past AED 200 billion, the numbers start to tell a governance story that … Read more
Twenty-eight new weekly flights to five Chinese cities is not a cautious bet. For Etihad Airways, it is a declaration that the airline intends to close the gap on rivals who have owned the China-Gulf corridor for years. The Abu Dhabi-based carrier plans to expand its mainland China operations to 35 weekly services spanning six … Read more
A three-day programme that promises to turn raw business ideas into investor-ready pitches might sound familiar in the startup world. But when the entity behind it is Dubai‘s own SME authority, and the jury panel reads like a who’s who of the emirate’s commercial infrastructure, the initiative carries a different weight entirely. Dubai SME, the … Read more
A road quality performance score of 96.65% is the kind of number most cities would frame and hang on a wall. For Dubai, it is the measurable output of a quiet but significant shift in how the emirate manages one of its most capital-intensive asset classes: its road network. The emirate has moved from reactive … Read more
Eight minutes. That is all it now takes for a Dubai utility customer to receive a security deposit refund that, not long ago, required a four-day wait and manual processing. The speed gain is not incremental — it represents a 99.7% reduction in processing time, and it tells a broader story about how aggressively Dubai’s … Read more
When two trade hubs on opposite ends of Asia’s commercial corridor start talking about opening offices on each other’s turf, the conversation has moved well past courtesy visits. That is exactly where Sharjah and Hong Kong now find themselves, with formal discussions underway to convert diplomatic goodwill into structured investment channels. The Sharjah Chamber of … Read more
An endowment-funded factory producing 150 million date-based food units per year sounds like an industrial project, but the ambition behind it is squarely humanitarian. With AED 200 million in private funding already committed, the 1 Billion Meals Dates Factory positions the UAE as a permanent infrastructure player in global food security rather than a periodic … Read more
Record inventory draws of up to 12 million barrels per day in a single month would be extraordinary under any circumstances. When Goldman Sachs attaches that figure to April 2026, it reframes the entire supply conversation for energy investors across the Gulf and beyond. The investment bank has raised its fourth-quarter oil price forecasts, now … Read more