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  SHARJAH / WAM The Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has made a number of recommendations to strengthen the emirate’s public-private partnerships (PPPs), following the Cabinet’s recently approved decision to issue a federal law regulating partnerships between the federal authorities and the private sector in the UAE. During its regular meeting held at the SCCI’s headquarters, the board ...

  SHARJAH / WAM Sharjah Economic Development Department (SEDD) reviewed the most important developments and events witnessed by the economic sectors and the measures as well as efforts taken by the Department in all sectors and activities, during the first half of the current year 2022. According to SEDD data, the total number of licences issued and renewed in Sharjah ...

  SHARJAH / WAM The Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) has announced the launch of a significant new award for publishing rights professionals which will be awarded at the 2022 edition of the 12th Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) Publishers Conference. Designed to support rights professionals and enhance opportunities for industry growth, the debuting Sharjah Rights Connection Award will be presented ...

  SHARJAH / WAM The Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has made a number of recommendations to strengthen the emirate’s public-private partnerships (PPPs), following the Cabinet’s recently approved decision to issue a federal law regulating partnerships between the federal authorities and the private sector in the UAE. During its regular meeting held at the SCCI’s headquarters, the board ...

  SHARJAH / WAM Two key discussions highlighting the essential role of strategic government communications in transforming crisis into opportunity and encouraging youth to invest in tech-driven ventures to successfully seize the myriad prospects presented by the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) will be staged at the 11th annual International Government Communication Forum (IGCF 2022), which unveils in less than two ...

  DUBAI / WAM Sultan bin Sulayem, DP World Group Chairman and CEO and Chairman of Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation (PCFC), said that the economic sectors in the UAE are performing positively and are likely to achieve more growth, during the meeting of the 3rd Dubai Customs Consultative Council (DCCC). The UAE’s foreign trade for the first 6 ...

  MONTEVIDEO / WAM Saqr Ghobash, Speaker of the UAE Federal National Council (FNC), and Pablo Lanz, Chairman of the International Relations Committee of the Senate of Eastern Uruguay, discussed enhancing parliamentary relations and stressed the importance of joint cooperation and coordination regarding international issues of common interest. Saqr Ghobash is leading a parliamentary delegation on an official visit to ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) has announced that its fifth edition of Culture Summit Abu Dhabi, a leading global forum, will return to Manarat Al Saadiyat under the theme ‘A Living Culture’. Designed to explore the future of the culture sector and discuss creative cultural solutions to some ...

DUBAI / GULF TIME ARUNIMA MISHRA The world’s most advanced metabolic fitness platform, Ultrahuman, is now embarking on a great start in the UAE. Started by Mohit Kumar and Vatsal Singhal in 2019 in India, while super sports enthusiast Anwar Shaikh brought the metabolic platform to the UAE.
“The UAE is a great launchpad for international expansion for it is home ...

  NEW DELHI / WAM India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretariat on the “mechanism of consultations” between the two sides. The MoU was signed between India’s Minister for External Affairs Dr S Jaishankar, and the GCC Secretary-General Dr Nayef Falah Mubarak Al-Hajraf. India’s Ministry of External Affairs said, “both sides reviewed ...