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August 29, 2024

9.11m foreign tourists visit Korea in 7 months

SEOUL: Number of foreign tourists visiting the Republic of Korea reached 9.11 million during January – July this year, a 66.8 percent increase compared to the same period last year.

Yonhap News Agency quoted the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) as sa…

EGA posts net profit of AED 1.84 billion in H1 2024

ABU DHABI: Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the world’s largest premium aluminium producer and the biggest industrial company in the UAE outside oil and gas, today reported solid financial performance for the first half of 2024 amid sustained global d…

Indian scheme brings 530m adults into banking system

NEW DELHI: India’s poverty reduction scheme offering banking services to underprivileged people has covered 530 million adults in 10 years, the Indian Ministry of Finance has announced.

Called the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, it is the ‘largest fi…