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  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 ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The United Arab Emirates on Monday called for a positive, pragmatic approach to the energy transition and practical climate action to ensure energy security and the economic progress. Delivering the opening remarks at the sixth edition of the Atlantic Council Global Energy Forum at Expo 2020 Dubai, Dr Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of ...

  SHARJAH / WAM Air Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa’s (Mena) first and largest low-cost carrier (LCC) operator, has been awarded the ‘Four-Star Low-Cost Carrier 2022’ rating by Apex – The Airline Passenger Experience Association. The airline was honoured during the Apex/Ifsa Awards Ceremony at Apex/Ifsa Expo that took place in California, USA. The Apex Official Airline Ratings ...

  Israel / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, participated in the “Negev Summit”, which began its activities in the southern Negev Desert, upon an invitation from Yair Lapid, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel. Other participants in the summit were Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State; Sameh Shoukry, Minister ...