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Dubai / WAM Enoc Group and GoAir of India have signed aviation fuel supply agreement. Through which, Enoc will provide the Indian budget carrier with jet fuel supply at the Dubai International Airport for their fleet of commercial aeroplanes. After a track-record of significant growth and success in the UAE, Enoc further expanded its network and currently covers more than ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Etihad Airways and Boeing on Monday announced a first-of-its-kind ‘eco partnership’, in which a specially-themed Boeing 787 Dreamliner will be used to test products, procedures and initiatives designed to reduce aircraft carbon emissions. The ‘Etihad Greenliner’, to be introduced early next year, will be used by both companies to explore and assess environmental sustainability initiatives while ...

DUBAI / WAM The UAE Cabinet has approved a federal law to regulate cases of insolvency of natural persons, aimed at enhancing the competitiveness of the UAE by ensuring the ease of doing business, creating favourable conditions for individuals facing financial difficulties and protecting those who are unable to pay their debts from going bankrupt. The new law is part ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Mubadala Investment Company, the Abu Dhabi-based global investor, has announced the launch of Sanad, a new industrial champion designed to foster Abu Dhabi’s long-term growth in the global aerospace and industrial services sectors. By reinforcing its strategic focus on enhanced customer support through superior engineering and leasing solutions excellence, Sanad will integrate Sanad Aerotech; Sanad Powertech ...

Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, on Sunday opened the ‘Dubai Airshow 2019’ at Dubai World Central. The two leaders watched ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi is to introduce the GCC’s first Social Impact Bond, an innovative and internationally recognised financial tool that raises private investment to support high-impact social programs, under the Authority for Social Contribution – Ma’an. Launching next year, Social Impact Bonds operate on a pay-for-success basis, whereby payment relies on a successful social outcome – ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Zayed House for Islamic Culture (ZHIC), has registered one million participants in the “Covenant for Million Tolerant” e-initiative launched last April as part of the Year of Tolerance programmes, aimed at promoting the values of tolerance within the UAE community. According to statistics, visitors to the e-platform reached 1,300,000, of which 68 percent were males ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation donated AED5.5 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), to implement its project to provide school supplies to Palestinian refugee students of the UNRWA Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Elementary Boys and Elementary Co-Educational Schools in northern Gaza. ...

DUBAI / WAM DMCC, a Dubai-based free zone that acts as a gateway into global trade, released on Sunday the approved Arabic translation of the ‘Diamond Terminology Guideline.’ The guideline sets a universal standard for the diamond and jewellery trade when communicating about diamonds and laboratory-grown diamonds. The guideline provides clear and accessible terminology to eliminate confusion among industry bodies, ...

DUBAI / wam Emirates Post, in association with Arab Postal Authorities, issued a unified commemorative stamp entitled ‘Al Quds – Capital of Palestine’, to support Al Quds’ cause and to protect its Arabian heritage, as well as serve a reminder of the emotional and cultural importance the city holds in the eyes of every Arab. During a meeting that was ...