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  DUBAI / WAM Abdullah bin Touq Al Marri, Minister of Economy, met with Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, a leading global asset management company, to discuss ways of boosting their investments in various economic sectors. The meeting took place during the Investopia Investment Summit, on the sidelines of the World Government Summit 2022. Al Marri highlighted the summit’s key ...

  Dubai / WAM Mohammad Abdullah Al Gergawi, UAE Minister of Cabinet Affairs and Chairman of the World Government Summit (WGS) Organisation, opened the first day of WGS2022 by setting out how governments need to adapt to an accelerating speed of change that will challenge regulators’ ability to keep pace. Mohammad Al Gergawi gave ‘three readings of the future’ centred ...

  DUBAI / WAM Expo 2020 Dubai recorded more than one million visits last Friday, Saturday and Sunday as visitors say their final goodbyes to what has been a spectacular six months. More well-wishers are expected to flock to the site in the remaining three days to be part of the World Expo’s closing action and entertainment – including what ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Abdullah bin Touq Al Marri, Minister of Economy, met with Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, a leading global asset management company, to discuss ways of boosting their investments in various economic sectors. The meeting took place during the Investopia Investment Summit, on the sidelines of the World Government Summit 2022. Al Marri highlighted the summit’s ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE, represented by the Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA), participated in the 2022 Session of the ITU Council at the ITU headquarters in Geneva. Majed Sultan al-Mesmar, Director-General of the TDRA, headed the TDRA’s delegation while Saif bin Ghelaita, Executive Director of the Technology Development Affairs Department at the TDRA, chaired the ...

  DAR ES SALAAM / WAM DP World on Tuesday announced the launch of its wholesale e-commerce platform Dubuy.com in Tanzania. The online marketplace will give Tanzanian businesses better access to international markets. It will also provide a more secure and reliable supply chain, through DP World’s worldwide ports and logistics network. The new platform enables Tanzanian businesses to buy ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM UAE’s Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) has convened national and international experts to discuss the current situation of the global nuclear non-proliferation as well as nuclear import and export control systems in a three-day forum. Titled “Nuclear Non-Proliferation Forum: Emerging Challenges & Opportunities in the 21st Century”, the forum brings together national and international ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH), the regulator of the healthcare sector in the emirate, Pure Health, the largest integrated healthcare platform in the UAE, and G42 Healthcare, Abu Dhabi based leading health tech company, signed a memorandum of understanding to establish the Centre of Digital Health in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. The ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Within its efforts to promote industrial and investment cooperation with India, the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry has organised a meeting with a high-level delegation from the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). During the meeting, the visiting delegation were introduced to the available and promising business opportunities in Abu Dhabi through a video ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai accounts for 57 percent of scaleup funding in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena), and it is home to 39 percent of the region’s scaleups, according to a new report from Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy. The report, titled “UAE Venture Outlook”, was developed in cooperation with Mind the Bridge and Crunchbase, and it examined ...