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Dubai / WAM DMCC, the world’s flagship Free Zone and Government of Dubai Authority on commodities trade and enterprise, on Tuesday inaugurated the Dubai Design Academy (DDA). Offering exclusive jewellery-design programme, the new academy will equip students with innovative design development training and practical experience of very latest Computer Aided Design (CAD), designing and manufacturing technology shaping the modern jewellery ...

ABU DHABI / WAM A high-level Chinese delegation from Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), headed by Fu Hao, Deputy Director-General of Global Business Development Committee and Managing Director of Global Business Development Department of SSE, visited the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX). The aim of the visit is to deepen cooperation and explore partnership opportunities between the two stock markets. During ...

DUBAI / WAM Emirates Post, in cooperation with Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), has issued a series of commemorative stamps to celebrate the UAE Astronaut Programme, which will take the first Emirati astronaut Hazza Al Mansoori to the International Space Station (ISS), on September 25. The series of stamps are launched 55 years after the late Sheikh Rashid bin ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Islamic Economy Development Centre (DIEDC), received a senior financial delegation from Indonesia that aimed to learn about the Islamic economy system in the UAE and explore opportunities for cooperation. The delegation comprised senior officials from Bank Indonesia – the central bank of the country – and the Indonesia Halal Lifestyle Centre, as well as representatives of ...

NEW YORK / WAM The United Arab Emirates has emphasised the health benefits of addressing climate change including air pollution, and extreme weather events, and called for greater global efforts to address the climate-health nexus. During the UN General Assembly’s High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage, Hessa Essa Buhumaid, Minister of Community Development, noted that there is far too little ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The United Arab Emirates is the largest donor for Yemeni people during the Humanitarian Response Plan from early 2019 through September 23, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The United Arab Emirate’s humanitarian assistance delivered to the brotherly people of Yemen, since 2015 through September 23 this year, amounted to ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi will sell $10 billion of bonds in a three-part debt deal in its first international offering in two years as it takes advantage of relatively low borrowing costs. The oil-rich emirate is offering $3 billion in five-year fixed notes, $3 billion notes due 2029 and $4 billion in 30-year notes, according to a person ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The second group of 38 multinational Senior Reactor Operators (SROs), and Reactor Operators (ROs), of the Nawah Energy Company, have been officially certified by the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR), the UAE’s independent nuclear regulator. The total number of qualified operators now reached 53, well above the 32 required to operate Unit 1 at the ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE), on Monday announced that it had been mandated by one of the world’s largest fund managers to source and manage aircraft valued at approximately $1.4 billion. Dubai Aerospace Enterprise will acquire the assets, and its best-in-class Aircraft Investor Services (AIS), platform will manage the assets on behalf of the investor. The multi-year mandate will ...

Dubai / WAM The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) has confirmed the installation of the Soyuz FG on the Baikonur Cosmodrome Launch Pad No. 1, in Kazakhstan, in preparation for the September 25 mission. The Soyuz FG will carry the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft, in which Hazzaa Al Mansoori, the first Emirati astronaut, will be launched to the International Space Station. ...