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New York / WAM A top UN official has commended funding for the Humanitarian Response Plan in Yemen by “the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, the United States and others.” “New funding since September from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, the United States and others has enabled agencies to re-open suspended ...

New York / WAM The UAE has reaffirmed its commitment to the continued efforts to achieve and maintain a world free of the threat posed by nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) during the United Nations Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and other WMD. The UAE delegation to the ...

TASHKENT / WAM International partnerships are key to shaping the future of governmental processes, said Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs and The Future. Al Gergawi made the remarks as the head of the UAE delegation to the launch of the ‘One Million Uzbek Coders’ initiative at Inha University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. “Building international partnerships for shaping ...

DUBAI / WAM A surge in arrivals over the summer months accelerated Dubai’s tourism momentum, as the city welcomed 12.08 million international overnight visitors in the first nine months of 2019, according to the latest visitation figures released by Dubai’s Department of Tourism & Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism). The strong 4.3 percent increase in volume growth compared to the same ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), the regulatory body for Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), the integrated free zone technology park, announced its participation in the 23rd edition of Cairo ICT 2019, one of the leading technology events in the Middle East. Cairo ICT will run from December 1-4 at Egypt International Exhibition Center (EIEC) in New Cairo ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business ADX held two sustainability reporting workshops, titled ‘Enhancing the efforts of listed companies to disclose sustainability reports. The initiative is one of the pivotal axles of ADX’s broader programme to advance international best practices for sustainability across the Emirate, in line with the issuance of the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Disclosure Guidance for listed ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM According to statistics from Statistics Centre-Abu Dhabi (SCAD), in 2018, Abu Dhabi achieved progress in terms of its electricity production from solar energy, increasing from 17,986 megawatt-hours in 2011 to 249,695 megawatt-hours in 2018. The report also pointed out that 88.4 percent of the electricity produced from solar energy was transferred through the emirate’s electricity distribution ...

Dubai / WAM The UAE announced its intention to buy 24 B-250 light attack aircraft worth AED2.27 billion to strengthen air support for its Air Force and Air Defence from aerospace company Calidus. Major-General Ishaq Saleh Al Blooshi, Deputy Executive Director of the Military Committee of Dubai Airshow 2019, confirmed at the show daily briefing that the deal is in ...

ABU DHABi / WAM The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE), announced that during October 2019, total bank deposits increased by AED 17.8 billion, attributable to an AED 1.9 billion increase in resident deposits and an AED 15.9 billion increase in non-resident deposits. The money supply aggregate M1 decreased by 1.2 percent, from AED 511.9 billion at the end of ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) on Wednesday announced a partnership with Honeywell, as it embarks on one of the largest predictive maintenance projects in the oil and gas industry. Under the terms of a 10-year partnership agreement, the Adnoc will utilise Honeywell’s state-of-the-art asset monitoring and predictive analytics platform to maximise asset efficiency and ...