Dubai / WAM Dubai Business Events (DBE) Dubai’s official convention bureau, has welcomed 85 guests from Europe, including 70 hosted buyers and a further 15 of Europe’s leading media experts from the business events industry, to showcase the city’s world class meetings, incentives, conferences and event capabilities. Western Europe is a vital market for Dubai, and in 2015 it remained ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE Minister of Economy, Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, on Tuesday met Russian Minister of Agriculture, Aleksandr Nikolayevich Tkachev, on the sidelines of the Gulfood 2016, a major food and hospitality trade event in the region. The UAE imports around 80 percent of its food needs, a major challenge that the UAE is working to ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The 20th World Registry Law Congress 2016’ global conference, which is aptly titled ‘CINDER Dubai 2016,’ continues on a strong note for its second day in a row. Organized by the Dubai Land Department in collaboration with the International Property Registries Association (IPRA-CINDER), the conference’s activities are geared towards facilitating discussions around trending topics such as ...

London / AFP The bosses of more than a third of Britain’s top companies on Tuesday urged voters to keep the country in the European Union, warning that a ‘Brexit’ would threaten jobs. Some 198 business leaders including Roger Carr, chairman of BAE Systems, BP CEO Bob Dudley and Ron Dennis, chief of F1 team McLaren, wrote a joint letter ...

Ritika Sharma Emirates Business The UAE is shaping the Arab fashion industry. And it will don a prominent role as the sector is poised to grow substantially in the next five years. Currently valued at US$300 billion, the Arab fashion industry is expected to touch US$500 billion by 2019. Emirati fashion designer Lamya Abedien, who aims at making the national ...

Alkesh Sharma Emirates Business Instant replies to customer queries always bring brisk business. Dubai-based start-up Brndstr is creating ripples in the industry with its new auto-reply tool which would enable technology entrepreneurs and corporates to promptly interact with their targeted customers, by using intelligent robotic responses. Brndstr is offering a wholesome directory of hashtag and emoji on Twitter platform to ...

DUBAI / WAM Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, and in the presence of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, the Global Women’s Forum Dubai, 2016, opened on Tuesday at the Madinat ...

ABU DHABI / WAM H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union, GWU, Supreme President of the Family Development Foundation (FDF), and Head of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, on Tuesday received Queen Rania Abdullah of Jordan who is in the UAE to participate in the Global Women Forum Dubai which began on Tuesday. Sheikha ...

DUBAI / WAM H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, on Tuesday delivered a keynote during the official opening of the Global Women’s Forum in Dubai, in which he stressed that the UAE, as part of its developmental journey, has regarded women as partners in the service of the homeland and nation-building, stressing ...

Dubai / WAM H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, met with Queen Rania Abdullah of Jordan, and Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, on the sidelines of the Global Women’s Forum in Dubai which opened on Tuesday. The meetings, which took place at the Jumeirah Majlis, also included the official ...