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Abu Dhabi / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, received a written message from the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud inviting him to the emergency GCC summit in Makkah on May 30. The invitation was received by His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM As the UAE’s campaign to support Rohingya refugees raised around AED50 million ($13.61 million) during the first three days, the authorities are trying to spread its message to more people with support of social media influencers. The latest move is inspired by the UAE’s past experience of receiving unexpected support of people from distant lands since ...

Dubai / Emirates Business A total of 6,377 new companies joined Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the first four months of 2019, bringing membership growth to 20% compared to the 5,316 members accounted for in the same period last year. The number of renewed members reached 39,338 between January and April 2019, marking a year-on-year (y-o-y) increase of ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Federal Tax Authority (FTA), has called on tax agents to comply with the five ‘Professional Standards for Tax Agents’, published in a new guide on the subject, in all of their transactions to ensure uninterrupted activity. The new guide was issued through the FTA’s official website, offering a detailed explanation of the standards and conditions ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (Adnec) attracted huge interest from leading international companies in unmanned systems and simulation and training during its participation in the recently concluded Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSi2019) and the International Forum for the Military and Civil Simulation, Training and Education Community (ITEC). Adnec’s participation in both events aimed ...

DUBAI / WAM Smart Dubai unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) use case in the healthcare sector that allows healthcare professionals to pre-emptively predict a patient’s condition by tracking six vital signs, including blood pressure, temperature, and the pulse, among others. Nurses feed this data into the high-precision AI system, which analyses it to predict how a patient’s situation will ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE is participating in the first UN-Habitat assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, in order to advance Abu Dhabi’s agenda for the 10th edition of the World Urban Forum (WUF10), scheduled for February 2020. At the assembly, the UAE will be led by a delegation headed by Mohamed Al Khadar, Executive Director, Strategic Affairs, of the Department ...

Dubai / Emirates business Gulf Capital, one of the largest and most active alternative asset managers in the Middle East, announced on Monday that it has acquired a 70 percent stake in Medica Holding, the leading service provider of aesthetics, cosmetics and dermatology equipment and products across the Middle East. Gulf Capital is actively targeting investments in the fast-growing beauty ...

OSLO / WAM Dr Mouza Al Shehhi, Director of UN Women UAE Liaison Office for the GCC, welcomed the UAE’s donation of $10 million, to support ending of sexual and gender-based violence. The UAE announced the donation during its participation in the ‘International Conference on Ending Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Humanitarian Crises’ which was held in Oslo, Norway. Dr ...

ABU DHABI / WAM On June 30 and July 1, the United Nations (UN), and the UAE, represented by the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, will host the “Abu Dhabi Climate Meeting”, to strengthen the initiatives, commitments, and achievements set to be launched at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, as well as to discuss political barriers ...