AJMAN / WAM The Ministry of Education, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health and Community Protection and the Ajman Teacher Training Institute, launched a coronavirus prevention awareness campaign to highlight appropriate means of protection and guidelines to prevent infections in schools. Khawla Al Hosani, Director of the Training and Professional Development Department, said that the campaign aims to promote ...

SHARJAH/ WAM Sharjah Islamic Bank (SIB) has announced the strengthening of its partnership with ICICI bank to facilitate remittances to India. The collaboration will provide SIB the chance to offer instant remittances to its customers through the digital channels 24×7. Ahmed Saad, Deputy CEO of SIB, along with Vikash Sharma, General Manager, Regional Head – Middle East & Africa of ...

DUBAI / WAM Falcon Aviation, one of the UAE’s leading business aviation services company, has been awarded the D1 approval for Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) by three authorities, including the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) allowing Falcon Aviation to identify latent issues in customer aircraft and attend to them to the highest safety degree. The coveted D1 approval has been ...

ABU DHABI / WAM On Tuesday, Louvre Abu Dhabi and Théâtre du Châtelet, with the support of Bloomberg Philanthropies, will launch the world premiere of Singing Trees, a new interactive installation created by award-winning digital artists from London, Umbrellium, in collaboration with Paris’ Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM) and independent producer, Katherine Jewkes. Combining innovative technology, music ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business UAE business leaders are confident in their company’s growth prospects for the first half of 2020, with 69% expressing they are ‘very confident’, according to independent research commissioned by leading international recruitment consultancy, Robert Half UAE. When questioned on the rationale for optimism, many cited their company’s objective to expand business opportunities (43%), ability to attract ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE Armed Forces signed seven new deals worth AED 468 million on the second day of the Unmanned Systems Exhibition (Umex), and the Simulation and Training Exhibition, SimTEX 2020, taking the total value of deals to AED 624,962,659. “The total value of external deals reached AED 25,821,190,” said Staff Brigadier Fahad Nasser Al Thehli, Spokesman ...

DUBAI / WAM DP World, the leading enabler of global trade, and one of the world’s largest port operators, announced on Monday it has completed the acquisition of Fraser Surrey Docks from Macquarie Infrastructure Partners, alongside its partner, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, thus complementing DP World’s footprint in Canada, which also includes terminal operations in Vancouver, Nanaimo, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE Space Agency has announced the details of the new UAE Space Law issued by President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The announcement was made during an introductory workshop for the UAE Space Law, organised by the UAE Space Agency and held in Abu Dhabi. Previously, the law was passed by the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), concluded its General Assembly Meeting on Monday at FAB’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi. According to a statement released by FAB, all items on the agenda were discussed and approved including the distribution of 74 percent cash dividends – AED0.74 per share, implying total cash dividends of AED8.08 billion – for the ...

Bloomberg President Xi Jinping urged China to “spare no effort” to contain the coronavirus outbreak in Beijing, as the nation’s top legislature postponed its annual legislative session in the capital to help check the disease’s spread. Xi issued his warning in a conference call attended by more than 170,000 government and ruling party officials — the biggest of its kind ...