New York / WAM The UAE has reaffirmed its commitment to the continued efforts to achieve and maintain a world free of the threat posed by nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) during the United Nations Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and other WMD. The UAE delegation to the ...

TASHKENT / WAM International partnerships are key to shaping the future of governmental processes, said Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs and The Future. Al Gergawi made the remarks as the head of the UAE delegation to the launch of the ‘One Million Uzbek Coders’ initiative at Inha University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. “Building international partnerships for shaping ...

DUBAI / WAM A surge in arrivals over the summer months accelerated Dubai’s tourism momentum, as the city welcomed 12.08 million international overnight visitors in the first nine months of 2019, according to the latest visitation figures released by Dubai’s Department of Tourism & Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism). The strong 4.3 percent increase in volume growth compared to the same ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), the regulatory body for Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), the integrated free zone technology park, announced its participation in the 23rd edition of Cairo ICT 2019, one of the leading technology events in the Middle East. Cairo ICT will run from December 1-4 at Egypt International Exhibition Center (EIEC) in New Cairo ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business ADX held two sustainability reporting workshops, titled ‘Enhancing the efforts of listed companies to disclose sustainability reports. The initiative is one of the pivotal axles of ADX’s broader programme to advance international best practices for sustainability across the Emirate, in line with the issuance of the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Disclosure Guidance for listed ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM According to statistics from Statistics Centre-Abu Dhabi (SCAD), in 2018, Abu Dhabi achieved progress in terms of its electricity production from solar energy, increasing from 17,986 megawatt-hours in 2011 to 249,695 megawatt-hours in 2018. The report also pointed out that 88.4 percent of the electricity produced from solar energy was transferred through the emirate’s electricity distribution ...

Bloomberg The US Commerce Department has started approving some suppliers’ applications for licenses to do business with China’s Huawei Technologies Co, partially reopening access to one of the biggest buyers of US technology. “We’ve had 290-something requests for specific licenses,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in an interview with Fox Business Network. “We’ve now been starting to send out the ...

Bloomberg Tesla Inc said it’s planning to start delivering made-in-China Model 3 cars before late January, another sign that the company is nearing mass production in the world’s largest auto market. “We are making an effort to gradually deliver before the Spring Festival to let our customers drive our China-built Model 3 sedans back home for the holidays,” Tesla said ...

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump, touring an Apple Inc assembly plant in Texas, said he’s “looking at” exempting the iPhone maker from tariffs on goods imported from China. Trump made the remarks alongside Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook at a Flex Inc facility in Austin, Texas, that is manufacturing Apple’s new Mac Pro desktop computer. Trump repeated previous comments ...

Bloomberg The US government has approved the sale of naval guns worth $1 billion to India in the biggest defense deal between the two countries in four years. Putting the US among the top three global arms suppliers to India, the State Department on November 19 of the possible foreign military sale of as many as 13 naval guns made ...