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ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), has launched ‘Your Cash Dividend in Your Bank Account’ awareness campaign, which aims at encouraging investors to provide ADX with their International Bank Account Number (IBAN), UAE ID details, and contact information, to ensure receiving their cash dividends directly into their bank account. ADX urged investors to update their information through ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Thousands of literature enthusiasts and industry professionals from the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the region and around the world are expected to attend, the upcoming Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF 2019), reinforcing the emirate’s position as a global hub for publishing. Held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown ...

Ajman / WAM Sheikh Rashid bin Humaid Al Nuaimi, Chairman of the Department of Municipality and Planning in Ajman, and Pat Breen, Irish Minister of State for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection, discussed ways of advancing cooperation between Ajman and Ireland in the areas of health, innovation, technology and business. Both sides also discussed means ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), the regulatory body for Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), the integrated free zone technology park, announced that it has obtained the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) v4.1 Platinum certification in the Operations and Maintenance (O+M) category for its High Bay Building in DSO. Dr Juma Al Matrooshi, Deputy CEO for ...

DUBAI / WAM Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa), met Fernando Luis Lemos Igreja, Ambassador of Brazil to the UAE, as part of a series of meetings to ensure cooperation and collaboration with all diplomatic and consular missions in the UAE. The meeting was attended by Dr Yousef Al Akraf, Executive Vice ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Municipality announced several investment opportunities in the emirate’s public parks, such as the event spaces, and the allocation of different areas for restaurants and small shops, within the investment map of each park. Dawoud Al Hajri, Director General of Dubai Municipality, said that the Municipality aims to support the directives of the wise leadership to encourage ...

DUBAI / WAM Trakhees, the regulatory arm of Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation (PCFC), in Dubai has received five ISO certifications in complaints handling, quality management, IT management, environment management and HS management. Adnan Al Abbar, CEO of Trakhees, expressed his happiness for this achievement and confirmed Trakhees incessant efforts within its 2019-2021 plan to give more focus to ...

DUBAI / WAM Chaired by Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, the Dubai Future Council on Artificial Intelligence discussed at its first meeting plans and trends to strengthen Dubai’s position and leadership in future sectors and how the role of artificial intelligence will further enhance Dubai’s status as a future global city. One of 13 Councils ...

DHAKA / WAM Reem bint Ibrahim Al Hashemy, Minister of State for International Cooperation, has got first-hand knowledge of the humanitarian conditions at the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, during her meeting with UN officials in Bangladesh. The minister, along with her accompanying delegation, toured the camps’ food distribution centres where the World Food Programme (WFP) has scaled up ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Mint Middle East (MME) is reinventing online shopping and payments in the UAE and the region with three new products. Three products — GoMart, Marakez and MintPay — will foray into the country with the aim to taking consumer experience with online shopping to a new level, offering an integrated secure payments gateway that completes a ...