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Jeddah / WAM Dr Sultan bin Ahmad Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of State and Chairman of the National Media Council (NMC), has emphasised that the UAE, in implementation of the directives of the wise leadership and its effective role within the Saudi-led Arab Coalition, continues to support the Yemeni people through carrying out a huge humanitarian operation to provide aid ...

Jeddah / WAM The Ministers of Media of the Member States of the Coalition for Supporting Legitimacy in Yemen held a meeting at the Conference Palace here on Saturday to discuss ways of aligning media efforts and providing support for the Coalition countries. The Saudi Minister of Media Dr. Awwad bin Saleh Al-Awwad said that the meeting comes in continuation ...

Jeddah / WAM The Yemeni Minister of Information, Muammar al-Aryani, called for preparing a joint Arab media strategy to confront Iran’s sectarian schemes in the region and empower Yemeni media organisations to combat sectarianism, terrorism and extremism. “The Saudi-led Arab Coalition is supporting Yemen in its battle to end the Houthi coup, restore the state and rebuild the country,” al-Aryani ...

HODEIDAH / WAM Emirati humanitarian aid convoys, containing 100 trucks loaded with tens of thousands of food and medical items, arrived on Saturday in Mocha, south of Taiz Governorate. The assistance is presented by the UAE through the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), the top humanitarian arm of the country, to provide relief for 1.7 million Yemenis in Hodeidah and surrounding areas. ...

Dubai / WAM The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), in Dubai, announced the completion of 85 percent of works in the 7th Interchange on the Sheikh Zayed Road (SZR), Project, and the Al Yalayes Road Improvement Project, and that both projects would be opened on September 15. “The two projects will enhance the link between the Sheikh Zayed Road and ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Strata Manufacturing PJSC (Strata), the advanced composite aero-structures manufacturing facility wholly owned by Mubadala Investment Company, has successfully completed the industrialization of the Airbus A350-900 elongated Flap Support Fairings (eFSFs) modification for Belgian aerospace company, Sociétés Anonyme Belge de Constructions Aéronautiques (SABCA). The new eFSFs are designed to further optimize the aerodynamics, resulting in lower ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi University (ADU), an internationally recognized academic institution for quality education and applied research, scored third globally in the Quacquarelli Symonds’ (QS) World University Rankings 2019 on the international faculty indicator. The university scored a progress of 50 ranks compared with last year’s results, marking its way in the 701 – 750 performance rank. ...

DUBAI / WAM The Port of Prince Rupert and DP World have agreed on terms of a project development plan that outlines the next phase of expansion for the DP World Prince Rupert Fairview Container Terminal. The Phase 2B expansion will increase annual throughput capacity at Can-ada’s second largest container terminal to 1.8 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEUs), when complete ...

DUBAI / WAM Emirates Transport (ET) announced net profit of AED244.2 million for the year 2017, an increase of 34 percent on 2016, with revenues also boosted to AED2.558 billion, recording an increase of 6.8 percent compared to the previous year. In his introductory comments of the report, Hussain bin Ibrahim Al Hammadi, Minister of Education and Chairman of ET’s ...

DUBAI / WAM Emcredit, a subsidiary of the Department of Economic Development (DED) in Dubai, and ebooc, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to launch a next-generation digital payment Point of Sale (POS) platform for Dubai. The MoU was signed by Ali Ibrahim, Deputy Director General of DED and Managing Director of emcredit Limited, and Muna Al Qassab, CEO ...