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  Ras Al Khaimah / WAM UAE’s first used battery recycling centre will be built in Ras Al Khaimah with an investment of AED62.4 million by Royal Gulf Industries. Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone (Rakez) has welcomed this state-of-the-art lead acid battery recycling company to its industrial ecosystem. A subsidiary of Hyderabad Castings Limited and part of Nakhat Group, the ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) announced on Thursday two contracts totalling more than $3.4 billion (AED12.6 billion) have been awarded to Adnoc Drilling to hire 8 jack-up offshore rigs. The contracts, valued at $1.5 billion (AED 5.6 billion) and $1.9 billion (AED 7 billion) respectively, awarded by Adnoc Offshore, will support the expansion of ...

  Dubai / WAM Amanat Holdings has announced its financial results for the first six months of this year, reporting an adjusted net profit of AED67.4 million, a 7 percent increase on the AED63.1 million reported in the same period of 2021. On an adjusted basis, excluding the prior year’s gain on sale and trading results from divested entities, the ...

  Cairo / WAM Hamid Al Zaabi, Director-General of the Executive Office for Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing (EO AML/CTF), has met with Ahmed Khalil, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Egyptian Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Unit (Egyptian AML/CTF), as well as Judge Hatem Aly, Regional Representative of the United National Office on Drugs and Crime ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (Adib), in collaboration with DIFC FinTech Hive hosted a “speed meeting” session for the sixth consecutive year. The session aimed at meeting shortlisted participants of the first sprint of the FinTech Accelerator programme 2022, to evaluate how their solutions can integrate within Adib operations. This year, eight FinTech startups from various ...

  Sharjah / WAM The launch of the Emirates Reprographic Rights Management Association (ERRA) – a first-of-its-kind association in the region – marks a watershed moment in the UAE publishing industry as it strengthens the foundations of a healthy print and publishing market where both the creation and dissemination of content are encouraged. With the launch of ERRA, the UAE ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa’s) Innovation Centre has launched the second batch of the Cleantech Youth Programme. The programme aims to attract talented young energy leaders from different sectors and expand their skills and knowledge in clean and renewable energy and entrepreneurship. The programme comprises a wide range of training workshops, specialist education sessions, and ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE participated in the 55th Foreign Ministers Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), which is taking place in the Kingdom of Cambodia from July 30 to August 6. As part of the meeting’s key agenda items, the UAE signed Asean’s Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC). The UAE ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, awarded Jaime Alejandro Amín Hernández, Ambassador of the Republic of Colombia to the UAE, the Medal of Independence of First Order on the occasion of the end of his tenure as ambassador to the country. Reem bint Ibrahim Al Hashemy, Minister of State for International Cooperation, ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) has signed a new data-sharing partnership with TradingView, a US-based leading financial information portal, to help attract a new generation of global traders and investors to the exchange. As part of the agreement, ADX market data is now live on TradingView’s platform and accessible by a large base of ...