Sharjah / WAM Abu Dhabi Exports Office (Adex) and the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) are partnering together on a strategic initiative to help boost exports from one of the leading manufacturing hubs in the region that provides a significant contribution to the UAE’s GDP. Adex, the UAE-wide export financing entity founded by Abu Dhabi Fund for Development ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Adnoc Distribution has opened 16 new sites around the country so far this year, including five ‘Adnoc On the go’ neighbourhood stations in Abu Dhabi and five ‘traditional’ stations in Dubai. The UAE’s leading fuel and convenience retailer said the network expansion aims to “bringing everyday essentials closer to its customers.” In a statement on Tuesday ...

ABU DHABI / WAM In an exclusive interview with Al Jundi Journal, Saqr Ghobash, Speaker of the Federal National Council (FNC) said that the council was committed to upholding the values of UAE’s present leaders as well as the founding fathers. He explained how the council has helped the government confront the threat from the coronavirus and also how the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Sheikh Zayed Book Award, one of the most prestigious literary prizes for the Arab world is now accepting submissions for its 2021 edition. Each winner of the Award’s nine categories will receive prize money of AED750,000 ($204,000) to recognise and further enable their creative and cultural achievements. Now in its 15th year, the Award, which ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with EC3 Brokers to implement a Group Health Insurance Master Policy. The Group Health scheme will be available to over 2,400 active registered firms in DIFC who provide health insurance to their 25,600 professionals. It is the first scheme of this nature to be developed in ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS) a joint initiative by the UAE and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (Unido), announced the dates for its 2020 edition, #GMIS2020, commencing with a sequence of Digital Series on June 30, and leading up to the Virtual Summit that will be held on September 4-5. At the top ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Customs’ Training Centre and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have launched an e-learning platform ‘GO LEARN’, that provides some 50 training courses in the customs field. The launch of the online platform took place on Microsoft Teams with the attendance of Mohammed Al Ghaffari, Acting Executive Director, Human Resources, Finance and Administration ...

Bloomberg Electricite de France (EDF) and its Canadian and German partners have finalised the funding of a 2 billion euro ($2.23 billion) offshore wind project, allowing construction to start in the English Channel. EDF, Enbridge Inc and Wpd AG plan to commission the 500-megawatt wind farm in 2023, the companies said in a statement on Tuesday. The facility near the ...

Bloomberg China boosted its clean energy targets for 2020 and said it would for the first time formally monitor whether provinces meet their goals or not. Nationwide, the country is targeting 28.2% of electricity generation to come from renewable sources, up 0.3 percentage points from last year, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said. Non-hydro sources are expected to ...

President Donald Trump tweeted that the executive branch will designate Antifa as a “terrorist organisation,” apparently in an attempt to pin blame for the weekend’s violent protests on the loose collection of far-left activists. The president’s announcement was characteristically unclear. Federal law says that if the Secretary of State designates a group as a foreign terrorist organisation, then materially supporting ...