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New York / Emirates Business The Badiri Education and Development Academy, the learning and capacity-building arm of the NAMA Women Advancement Establishment (NAMA), launched the Badiri E-Academy, an e-learning platform whose resources can be accessed online – in Arabic and English for now- by anyone around the world. The online academy was launched in a private event at the Permanent ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Future Accelerators programme, an initiative by the Dubai Future Foundation, has announced the launch of its 5th Cohort with the participation of more than 40 local and global technological advanced companies and start-ups. The nine-week programme aims to find innovative and smart solutions that employ modern advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Internet of Things, ...

RAS AL KHAIMAH / WAM The American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK) ranked twelfth among 103 UAE institutions with Scopus affiliations, with a total of 403 Scopus documents published by the AURAK faculty and researchers. Scopus is the largest database of peer-reviewed literature, encompassing scientific journals, books, and conference publications. The extensive global scholarship indexed in Scopus includes research ...

Dubai / WAM The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa), has opened registration for the public to visit the Solar Decathlon Middle East (SDME 2018), at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Seih Al Dahl, Dubai. The exhibition is being held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), signed an agreement with the Emirates Desert Group to construct two truck stops at Dubai Industrial City (near Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road) and Dubailand (near Emirates Road) under the Public Private Partnership (PPP), model. The agreement, which is the first of its kind in Dubai, fulfils all stipulations of the Dubai Public-Private ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, has launched a smart application system to assist field officers at Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD). The new application will allow officers to carry out multiple tasks, including the issuance of eviction notices electronically. His Highness highlighted the Department’s drive ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), held a meeting on Saturday to discuss preparations for the launch of KhalifaSat, the first satellite to be developed 100 percent by Emirati engineers in the UAE, into orbit aboard the liquid-fuelled H-IIA rocket on October 29. Hamad Obaid Al Mansouri, Board Chairman of the MBRSC, who presided over the meeting, ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development (KFED), in collaboration with Mohammed Bin Rashid Establishment for SME Development, Dubai SME, successfully held the second Tawasul Forum for 2018 in Dubai in the presence of Khalifa Fund’s members and SMEs entrepreneurs, as well as government and private entities. The forum is part of a series of qualitative initiatives ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Adnoc LNG, a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), on Wednesday signed the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for the second phase of the Integrated Gas Development Expansion (IGD-E) project with a consortium of Spain’s Tecnicas Reunidas and Abu Dhabi’s Target Engineering Construction Company. The contract is valued at AED3.16 billion ($860 ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI), the UAE Federal export credit company, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC), a member of the Islamic Development Bank Group, to boost export trade through the promotion of Shariah-compliant export credit and investment insurance instruments. With the aim of establishing ...