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Dubai / WAM Dubai Airport Freezone Authority (Dafza) signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Export Bahrain, establishing frameworks for technical collaboration to support their joint efforts in institutional development, facilitating business activities, supporting companies and their plans for growth and expansion and exchanging information and expertise. Amna Lootah, Assistant Director-General of Dafza; and Safa Abdulkhaliq, Acting Chief Executive Officer of ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The second edition of the Abu Dhabi Smart City Summit is beginning on Tuesday, bringing together more than 25 local and federal government agencies, and 400 specialists, experts, officials, leaders, strategists and policy makers, as well as governmental and private organisations. The summit will discuss the best practices for developing smart cities and addressing challenges, contributing ...

Ras Al Khaimah / WAM Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone (Rakez) has unveiled the Rakez Mobile App, another key milestone in the economic zone’s ongoing digitisation journey that aims to boost the ease and accessibility it offers to global investors. Available on both Apple Store and Google Play, the app is packed with wide-ranging features that allow clients to submit ...

DUBAI / WAM The UAE has won the bid to host the 27th International Council of Museums (Icom) General Conference 2025 in Dubai under the theme ‘The Future of Museums in Rapidly Changing Communities’. The new global achievement is set to further strengthen the UAE’s leading position as the capital of creativity and innovation across various fields. The result of ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (Adio) welcomed more than 240 UK business leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators to the inaugural event organised by its London office to discuss expansion opportunities to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) capital. The main event took place virtually and featured speeches and panel discussions on advantages of investing in emirate’s enabling business ...

DUBAI / WAM Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower) said it has recorded a remarkable growth in the number of customers from different parts of Dubai to obtain company’s high-quality environmentally-friendly district cooling services. During the first nine months of this year, Empower has witnessed a growth of 49% in the number of new registered individuals and companies, compared to ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre (FCSC) announced that the UAE was ranked first in nine international competitiveness indexes related to the progress achieved for Goal 5 of the Sustainable Development Goals 2021, which is gender balance. The UAE is continuing its rapid progress in the United Nations Development Programme Gender Inequality Index, rising eight places ...

ABU DHABI / WAM In celebration of the UAE’s Golden Jubilee, His Highness Sheikh Abdulla bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, has launched Mubadala’s television commercial (TVC) titled 50 Years of Progress taking viewers on a journey through the nation’s remarkable story. Produced as an ode to the nation, the TVC highlights important themes that ...

Dubai / WAM The Pearl Initiative, the leading Gulf non-profit organisation promoting a corporate culture of accountability and transparency, hosted 37 CEOs of leading regional and international corporations along with UAE ministers at Expo2020 Dubai for its annual CEO Council meeting to discuss the increasingly important role of the private sector in realising national policy agendas. The distinguished gathering of ...

Dubai / WAM The UAE has won the bid to host the 27th International Council of Museums (ICOM) General Conference 2025 in Dubai under the theme ‘The Future of Museums in Rapidly Changing Communities’. The new global achievement is set to further strengthen the UAE’s leading position as the capital of creativity and innovation across various fields. The result of ...