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Dubai / WAM Global Village, the world’s leading multicultural Festival Park and the region’s first family destination for culture, shopping, and entertainment, announced a new attendance record with more than three million guest entries over the two-month period since its opening on October 30, 2018. Based on this performance and guest feedback, this makes for unprecedented performance, especially as Global ...

Aden / WAM Yemen’s Minister of Information, Muammar Al-Iryani, has commended the World Food Programme (WFP)’s reaction to Houthi militia’s manipulation of food aid. In statement to the Yemeni News Agency, Al-Iryani said, “The WFP’s account indicates that Houthi militia is deliberately exacerbating humanitarian crisis, causing people in its controlled regions to suffer starvation in order to capitalise on their ...

HADRAMAUT / WAM A humanitarian convoy loaded with various food items was deployed by the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), to the governorate of Hadramaut in Yemen, delivering 1,850 family-sized food baskets to 9,250 residents. The move is part of a comprehensive relief plan being carried out by the UAE across the governorate and in other Yemeni territories. In the Year ...

Dubai / WAM The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX), announced on Wednesday that it has rounded off a highly successful 2018 by breaking its annual volumes record, trading 22.26 million contracts, up 28 percent from the previous year. The total value of the contracts was $474.94 billion, beating its previous highest value of $448 billion traded in 2013. Average Daily ...

Dubai / WAM Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of the UAE Cabinet Affairs and The Future, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Managing Director of Dubai Future Foundation (DFF), has appointed Maha Khamis Al Mezaina as Director of Area 2071 in Dubai Future Foundation. Area 2071 was launched by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President ...

Dubai / WAM MyHome services from the Emirates Post will now be available for residents living in the apartments. The services were before available exclusively to residents of a villa, which enabled mail delivery to one’s home either once or twice a week – based on subscription package. Obaid Mohammed Al Qatami, Acting Chief Commercial Officer at Emirates Post Group ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The second edition of the Abu Dhabi Publishing Forum (ADPF), organised by Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), is set to discuss a number of pressing topics in the publishing sphere under the theme, ‘The Future of Digital Publishing: Technologies & Challenges – the Global Experience’. This year’s edition of ADPF, ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business On New Year’s eve, 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, took to Twitter to greet UAE residents. In ...

DUBAI / WAM The value of the UAE’s online travel sales in 2018 is forecast to reach AED17.3 billion, driven by a growing population, increasing number of tourists, and UAE residents’ shift towards digital services, a new analysis from the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry revealed. The analysis, based on recent data from Euromonitor International, found that direct online ...

Dubai / WAM DP World, Dubai-based global operator of shipping terminals, diversified its global business portfolio through investments and acquisitions worth $3 billion in 2018, the company said. It also deepened its engagement with revolutionary new technologies and extended meaningful support to environmental initiatives around the world during the year, achieving strategic growth in diverse fields, it said. The headline ...