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Dubai / WAM Dr Abdullah bin Mohammed Belhaif Al Nuaimi, Minister of Infrastructure Development, revealed that since its establishment in 1999, the Sheikh Zayed Housing Programme has processed 62,000 housing support applications around the country valued at more than AED35 billion. The support includes provision of mortgages, grants, construction of government housing and built-in extensions on existing houses, and home ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler’s Representative in Al Dhafra Region, stated that the UAE is supporting national development efforts by launching projects that aim to diversify and secure the country’s energy sources and promote the use of environmentally-friendly energy, as per the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Lebanese government is against any activities hostile to the Arabian Gulf countries, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri told the Emirates News Agency (WAM), in an exclusive interview. “I want to emphasise as head of the government [that] I refuse any form of Lebanese involvement in the conflicts around us. Moreover, I stress that the Lebanese ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Cars and Automotive Zone’s (Ducamz’s), customs centre has announced that it processed 429,602 transactions and made 31 seizures in 2018, compared to 268,070 transactions and 14 seizures in the first half of 2019. Meanwhile, Dry Port customs centre carried out 812,529 transactions last year, with that number totaling 430,142 transactions in H1 this year. This came ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Thirty candidates have been announced as finalists for the Zayed Sustainability Prize 2020 on Monday. Addressing some of the world’s most pressing and core development challenges, and aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 2030, the finalists of the Zayed Sustainability Prize are now vying to win up to ten awards, across five categories: Health, ...

Dubai / WAM A European trade delegation comprising of 39 decision-makers from the United Kingdom, Belgium, Greece, Hungary and Italy has visited Ras Al Khaimah to explore the potential of the emirate as a gateway to fast emerging economies in the Middle East. Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone (Rakez), organised a special event for the multi-sector mission operating in the ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) on Sunday listed the Emirate of Abu Dhabi Global Medium Term Note Programme total amount of $ 10,000,000,000 in three tranches, according to ADX’s official website. Demonstrating strong investor confidence in its solid credit fundamentals, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi on September 23 successfully priced a $10 billion multi-tranche international ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The value of non-oil foreign merchandise trade through Abu Dhabi ports stood at AED 121.5 billion by end of first seven months of 2019, according to the figures revealed by the Statistics Centre-Abu Dhabi (SCAD), Sunday. According to SCAD, foreign trade data presented do not cover non-oil exports and imports through ports of the other Emirates ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Registration Authority of the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), and the Registrar of Companies New Zealand have announced a partnership to expand their cooperation, in recognition of the increasingly international nature of business, aimed at improving the exchange of information and expertise in both jurisdictions. The Statement of Co-operation (Agreement) was signed by Dhaher bin ...

Dubai / WAM During her visit to the Gitex Technology Expo 2019 at the Dubai World Trade Centre on Sunday, Dr Amal Abdulla Al Qubaisi, Speaker of the Federal National Council (FNC), launched the first-of-its-kind “Smart Parliament App” in the Arab world and the Middle East. The ‘Smart Parliament App’ aims to expand communications between FNC members and the UAE community, ...