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  Sharjah / Emirates Business The Sharjah International Commercial Arbitration Centre, or TAHKEEM, recently organised a symposium on ‘Arbitration and the Real Estate Sector’ at the Sheraton Hotel Sharjah, in collaboration with Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Real Estate Registration Department and Sharjah Media Centre. Participants included senior officials and directors from government institutions and private companies operating ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Landmark Group, the Middle East-based retail and hospitality conglomerate, has launched Facebook at Work to connect 10,000 employees across 11 countries. The move aims to encourage collaboration and greater cohesiveness at the work place through helping employees communicate in real-time via the rich social media platform. Facebook at Work allows Landmark employees to connect ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates Institute for Banking and Financial Studies (EIBFS), a regional leader in banking and finance education and training, has reported a record training year in 2015. The institute delivered a total of 828 vocational training and education programmes and activities in 2015 — the highest recorded to date. Exceeding its 2015 target to train 19,000 ...

  ALKESH SHARMA / Emirates Business With an approximate annual growth of upto 5 to 10 percent, the Middle East has emerged as one of the record blossoming markets for yachts and boats globally. There has been a significant surge in buying of yachts, which has given a strong impetus to the manufacturing industry of yachts and boats in this ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business A high-level delegation composed of representatives from the Ministry of Economy and the Council of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Projects (SMEs Council), key businessmen and entrepreneurs, and other government officials, with a number of more than 50 persons, is set to visit Malaysia with the chief aim of exploring potential business and investment ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Veritas Technologies — the global leader in information management — has announced a set of solutions and services to help prepare organizations for the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) recently finalized by the European Union Parliament. Veritas Enterprise Vaultâ„¢ 12, Data Insight 5.1, Information Map and supporting services including the dark data assessment ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Under the patronage of HH His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashed Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council, Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA) — the government authority charged with regulating, coordinating and supervising all aspects of Dubai’s maritime sector — has announced that it has begun preparations to ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA) — the regulatory body for Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), the integrated free zone technology park — has announced fundamental changes to its ‘Happiest People’ initiative that was conceptualized in 2013, launched in 2014, and shaped into a comprehensive strategy in 2015. Inspired by the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed ...

  ABU DHABi / WAM The United Arab Emirates condemned, in the strongest terms, the terrorist massacres in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, which claimed the lives of dozens of innocent people. The UAE has announced its solidarity with Iraq and its people against organised terrorist attacks, targeting its institutions and its religious, cultural and civilisational fabric. The Ministry of Foreign ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Economy issued a report on monitoring, following-up and analysis of the development of the UAE’s Foreign Trade for the first quarter of 2016. The report, which was prepared by the Trade Policy Department at the Ministry, includes a number of important themes that together constitute the components and key elements of the report, ...