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ABU DHABI / WAM World Polio Day is marked annually on October 24 recognising global efforts to eradicate the highly infectious disease that mainly affects children under the age of five. Since the establishment of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), in 1988, the World Health Organisation (WHO), noted that wild polio cases have decreased by over 99 percent, with ...

SHARJAH / WAM Crescent Enterprises has joined hands with The Big Heart Foundation, a Sharjah-based global humanitarian organisation dedicated to helping people in need worldwide, to assist the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. The initiative will support Water and Sanitation for Health (Wash), project supervised by The Big Heart Foundation in the Cox’s Bazar district in southern Bangladesh, said a press ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Emirates Steel, the only integrated steel plant in UAE and a subsidiary of General Holding Corporation (Senaat), received two patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patents reaffirm Emirates Steels’ status as an innovative leader within the regional steel industry, alongside its commitment to building a culture of innovation within the UAE. ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Saif Mohamed AL Hajeri, Chairman of Department of Economic Development and a member of the Executive Council, officially opened the seventh edition of the International Franchise Exhibition (IFE), organised by Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry in strategic partnership with Emirates Association for Franchise Development, at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (Adnec) on Tuesday. ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The value of humanitarian programmes, relief operations, development projects and orphans sponsored by the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), outside the UAE from the beginning of this year until last September, amounted to AED338.3 million ($92.11 million), benefiting more than 8,500,634 people in many countries across the world. The aid was offered for humanitarian programmes, rescue operations, ...

Dubai / WAM HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Minister of Finance, and President of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa), unveiled the world’s first thermodynamic Digital Twin Gas Turbine Intelligent Controller, which uses Artificial Intelligence (AI), and machine learning, co-developed by the Dewa and Siemens. HH Sheikh Hamdan unveiled the GT Controller ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Mubadala Capital on Monday announced the launch of its first Mena-focused tech investment funds. With a total of $250 million, the Mubadala Mena tech funds will capitalise on the growing startup scene in the region while empowering tech talent in the Emirates and across the wider region. According to a press release issued by Mubadala on ...

Dubai / WAM Enoc Group unveiled record cumulative savings of AED71.4 million from innovative energy efficiency measures implemented across the Group over the last five years. The results and findings were published in the Group’s third edition of the Energy and Efficiency Report, which was launched at Water, Energy, Technology, and Environment Exhibition (Wetex 2019), said an Enoc press release ...

Matera (Italy) / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, said that the significance of the UAE’s hosting of Expo 2020 Dubai is in that it is the first event of its kind, “not only in the Middle East or the Arab world, but the first in Africa and South Asia ...

MARRAKESH / WAM The UAE Government participated in the 19th Annual Conference of the Arab Organisation for Administrative Development (Arado), in Marrakesh, Morocco. This year’s conference theme was entitled, ‘Requirements for Smart Infrastructure Localisation in Arab Countries to Achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The conference, held under the patronage of King Mohammed VI of Morocco, discussed the future ...