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DUBAI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Monday launched the e-Platform for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), established by the UAE Ministry of Economy, at the inaugural session of the Annual Investment Meeting (AIM) being held at the Dubai World Trade Centre on Monday. ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Adnoc Drilling, an Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, ADNOC, subsidiary, on Monday celebrated the graduation of 333 Emiratis from its Drilling Training Centre. Today’s graduates are the latest batch to have completed their training at the state-of-the-art centre. They will play a key role in ensuring efficient, reliable and safe onshore and offshore well-drilling operations. The ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Deposits of non-residents in UAE Islamic banks increased by AED4.2 billion over the first two months of 2018, bringing up to AED17.058 billion their total savings in Sharia-compliant banks operating in the country until the end of February from around AED12.81 billion in December 2017. The growth in non-residents’ deposits in January and February is a ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Shareholders of Adnoc Distribution, the UAE’s largest fuel and convenience retailer, on Sunday approved a AED 735 million (AED 5.88 fils per share) dividend payment, at the company’s landmark first Annual General Meeting (AGM). HE Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Adnoc Distribution Board Chairman, said, “The IPO and recently announced fourth quarter and 2017 full ...

DUBAI / WAM Two-way trade between GCC countries and the European Union has exceeded EUR143 billion ($175.87 billion) in recent years, according to a senior official of the European Union visiting the UAE to attend the Annual Investment Meeting (AIM) taking place in Dubai from April 9 to 11. This confirms that the European Union is the largest trading partner ...

DUBAI / WAM With the aim of further strengthening the existing partnership and collab-orating in sustainable agriculture and development, the International Centre for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) and the Dubai Carbon Centre of Excellence (DCCE), joined forces on Sunday to work together on sustainability projects. Through this partnership, both organisations agreed to cooperate in technical research, the sharing of knowledge, capacity ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business The total value of the top 10 active projects linked to Expo 2020 has exceeded $32.7 billion (AED120 billion) as of March 31, according to BNC Network, the largest project intelligence provider in the MENA region. There are various high value projects across different sectors that are being developed in the UAE which will impact or ...

Sharjah / WAM His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, has issued a law on social security in the Emirate of Sharjah, setting the retirement age at 55 years for females and 60 years for males. Law No. 5 of 2018 stipulates that the age of the insured shall not be ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR), will organise a lecture entitled ‘The Georgia-UAE Partnership: Creating a Shared Future in an Inconsistent World’, on April 10, at the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Hall at the ECSSR headquarters in Abu Dhabi. The lecture, which will be delivered by President Giorgi Margvelashvili of Georgia, ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, affirmed that meeting the needs of the society, particularly social welfare and social services, is essential for the stability of societies and peoples. His Highness also emphasised that paying attention to citizens’ demands is one of ...