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Dubai / WAM Dubai has won the bid to host the 12th World Chambers Congress (WCC) in 2021, which will see the participation of 14,000 chambers of commerce from 100 countries. The 12th WCC will be held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of ...

ABU DHABI / WAM On the occasion of the Year of Zayed 2018, the Department of Economic Development (DED) in Abu Dhabi has declared that it is exempting the establishments whose licences have expired for more than 24 months and who have applied for renewal, liquidation or cancellation of trade licence from paying all delayed and accumulated fees. Khalifa Bin ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Aerospace Enterprise, DAE, announced on Wednesday that its leasing division DAE Capital has recently signed three agreements to sell 16 aircraft with a total market value of nearly $900 million (AED3.3bn). The aircraft covered by these agreements include Boeing 737 and Airbus A320, A330, and A350 family aircraft, have an average age of two years and ...

DUBAI / WAM One of UPS’s 747 jumbo jets dedicated for long-haul international use is sporting a modified paint scheme highlighting the company’s role as official logistics partner for Expo 2020 Dubai. UPS has only modified the livery of an aircraft four other times in the airline’s 30-year history. Each of those times signifies a major news event – this ...

MONTREAL / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, has affirmed UAE’s keenness to enhance joint cooperation with international companies like CAE in order to exchange experiences and achieve mutual benefits that lead to the development of the aviation sector in both countries. He made his remarks during his visit to ...

YEMEN / WAM Colonel Sadiq Al Duweid, Spokesman of the National Resistance in Yemen, has emphasised that the Yemeni Resistance Forces in all their formations and with the strong participation and support of the UAE Armed Forces operating within the Arab Coalition, have advanced to the outskirts of the Hodeidah city, less than 15 kilometres from the city and 11 ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Mashreq, the UAE’s leading financial institution, has been awarded the 2018 Gallup Great Workplace Award for a 5th consecutive year, by global performance-management consulting company, Gallup. The Gallup Great Workplace Award recognizes organizations for their extraordinary ability to create an engaged workplace culture. HE Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair, CEO at Mashreq commented, “Mashreq is honoured to ...

Dubai / Emirates Business dnata, one of the world’s largest air services providers, expands its partnership with EGYPTAIR in Dubai. Starting Wednesday, dnata will provide the airline with premium cargo handling services from its best-in-class facility at Dubai World Central (DWC). EGYPTAIR will initially operate one cargo flight a week between Dubai and Cairo using an Airbus A300F aircraft. dnata ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Noor Bank, a leading Shari’a compliant Bank in the UAE, announced on Wednesday a new mobile payment solution for Emaar. As part of this roll-out, various iconic attractions of Emaar such as At the Top Burj Khalifa, Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo, VR Park and Dubai Ice Rink, can now accept seamless mobile payments from Chinese ...

ABU DHABI / WAM A high-level UAE Space Agency delegation is taking part in Space Ops 2018, an international forum for discussing advanced and technical areas of space exploration, hosted by the French Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), at the Palais du Pharo in Marseille. Taking place between May 28 and June 1, SpaceOps 2018 was opened with a series of ...