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Abu Dhabi / WAM Saif Badr Al Qubaisi, General Manager of Abu Dhabi City Municipality (ADM), launched the third edition of the municipality’s Internal Excellence Award (Ertiqaa), 2018. The launch of the award comes in implementation of the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The number of hotel guests staying in Abu Dhabi increased by 4.9% during the first five months of 2018 compared to the same period last year. According to statistics from the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), 162 hotels, resorts and hotel apartments offering 31,236 rooms across the emirate welcomed ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The balance of loans lent by banks operating in the UAE to the industrial and business sectors rose 3.4 percent at the end of May 2018 to AED 774.5 billion, from AED748.9 billion in December 2017, according to figures released by the UAE Central Bank (CBUAE) on Sunday. The two sectors borrowed 48 percent of aggregate ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) is working with the Ministry of Economy (MoE) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to launch a new international initiative to create a platform for funding small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), said Dr Obaid Al Zaabi, CEO of the SCA. In his statement to the Emirates News ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business HE Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri, Minister of State for Future Food Security, said that the future food security of the Middle East and North Africa region (Mena) depends primarily on strengthening economic and trade cooperation between regional countries, and elevating these ties to newer heights, especially in agriculture and agricultural production. “With similarities in the climatic ...

Dubai / WAM Dr Hanif Hassan Al Qasim, Chairman of the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue, said that the adoption by the United Nations of the UAE’s Universal Periodic Review Report reflects the country’s leading record in human rights. In a statement, Dr Al Qasim praised the UAE leadership’s efforts in human rights development, which it ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), announced that the second edition of its Global Financial Forum (GFF), will be held on March 11, 2019, in Dubai. The forum will be held under the theme, ‘Unlocking Opportunities in a Changing World’, in partnership with the Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news organisations. Through this partnership, the ...

Dubai / WAM The Food Safety Department of Dubai Municipality launched a smart system that allows customers to print their export health certificates for food electronically, without the need to visit its offices to print hard copies. Essam Al Hashimi, Head of the Food Trade Control Section at the Food Safety Department of Dubai Municipality, stressed that the new smart ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Etisalat on Sunday announced the launch of a ‘Talking Bill’ service that enables visually impaired customers to access bill summary details of their account free of charge. Customers can subscribe to the service at no extra cost by dialling 101 or visiting any of Etisalat’s retail stores. Upon successful activation, customers will get from the following ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE hosted the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Phase 3 Integrated Nuclear Infrastructure Review (INIR), mission from June 24 to July 1. The aim of the mission was to assist the UAE by providing a review of the nation’s overall nuclear energy infrastructure. The UAE is the first country to implement and achieve Milestone 3 ...