ABU DHABI / WAM Dr Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, witnessed the nationwide launch of a national campaign under the ‘Make it in the Emirates’ platform to promote UAE-made products. The initiative, led by the Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT), brings together nine of the UAE’s leading retail and e-commerce platforms to ...

ABU DHABI / AD MEDIA OFFICE His Highness Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Ruler of Abu Dhabi and Chairman of the MGX Board of Directors, has chaired MGX’s inaugural board meeting of 2025. His Highness praised the company’s rapid progress enabling accelerated technology development and innovation, and its emergence as a globally leading investor in AI infrastructure and ...

ABU DHABI /WAM Miral and The Walt Disney Company marked a historic milestone with the official announcement of the Middle East and Africa’s first Disney theme park resort destination on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi. The announcement was celebrated with a record-breaking 9,000-drone show and fireworks display at Yas Links, accompanied by live performances from world-renowned pianist Lang Lang, iconic Emirati ...

DUBAI / WAM The Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT) has announced the agenda and official slogan for the fourth edition of ‘Make it in the Emirates’, one of the UAE’s comprehensive economic programmes. The event will take place from 19-22 May 2025 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre under the theme “Advanced Industries. Accelerated”. The announcement was ...

AL AIN / WAM HH Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler’s Representative in Al Ain Region, has received a delegation from the Abu Dhabi Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (ACTVET), headed by Dr Mubarak Saeed Al Shamsi, Director-General of ACTVET. During the meeting, held at the Ruler Representative’s Court in Al Ain Region, HH Sheikh Hazza ...

ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, and Chairman of the Presidential Court, has chaired the Ministerial Development Council meeting, held at Qasr Al Watan in Abu Dhabi. The meeting reviewed various development proposals and projects submitted by ministries and federal entities across all governmental work sectors. During the meeting, ...

SHARJAH /WAM The Sharjah Broadcasting Authority (SBA) recently took part in the 76th World News Media Congress, which took place in Krakow, Poland, from May 4-6. The SBA team included Salem Ali Al Ghaithi, the Director; Faisal Ali Al Hammadi, who oversees Digital Media; Khalid Ahmed Al Zarouni, the head of the News Center; and Saeed Ahmed Bou Ghazin, in ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Space42 has announced a successful collaboration between its mobile satellite services subsidiary Thuraya and Gatehouse Satcom, a Danish-based software company specialising in mission-critical satellite communications, to advance direct-to-device (D2D) connectivity. The project demonstrated NB-IoT applications over Space42’s L band geostationary satellites using 3GPP-compliant release 17 technology, ensuring alignment with global standards and future scalability. This will ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Federal Tax Authority (FTA) has today announced that it has begun implementing the UAE Cabinet Decision to exempt certain corporate taxpayers from administrative penalties resulting from the late submission of registration applications, within the specified deadline. To qualify for the waiver of the penalty, the taxable person (or exempted categories) must submit their Tax Return ...

LILONGWE / MALAWI / WAM Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, President of Malawi, received HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the presence of Nancy Tembo, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malawi, at the beginning of Sheikh Abdullah’s working visit to the capital, Lilongwe. During the meeting, HH Sheikh Abdullah conveyed the ...