Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, on Wednesday visited the Abu Dhabi Unified Government Services System, Tam, platform at Yas Mall. During his visit, he was briefed about the mechanism of the system, which provides government services to customers in Abu ...
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ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi National Insurance Company (ADNIC), one of the leading regional multi-line insurance providers for corporates and individuals, announced on Wednesday its financial results for the year 2017. The company reported strong results with its net profit of AED227.3 million for 2017, representing an increase of 11 percent over the same period last year. Commenting ...
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Dubai / WAM Dubai-based flydubai has announced the start of flights to Kinshasa, the capital of Congo from April 15. The daily flights will operate with an en route stop in nearby Entebbe and will also be available for booking through the Emirates codeshare agreement. flydubai becomes the first UAE carrier to operate flights to N’djili Airport (also known as ...
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Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), announced on Wednesday, that it has launched the implementation phase of its new In-Country Value (ICV), strategy, aimed at increasing the company’s ICV contribution and strengthening its relationship with the UAE’s private sector. All business partnerships with ADNOC now include an ICV assessment as part of the tender evaluation ...
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Dubai / WAM Dr Hanif Hassan Al Qassim, Chairman of the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue, highlighted the key role of the World Government Summit (WGS 2018), which concluded on Tuesday in Dubai, in bringing together leading international politicians, government leaders, intellectuals, experts, economists and people in business. This type of gathering does not happen in ...
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Dubai / WAM Dubai Exports, the export promotion agency of Dubai Economy, together with the International Trade Centre (ITC), has launched the first of its kind ‘SheTrades Middle East Hub’ to connect women entrepreneurs to markets and support greater economic empowerment of women. Sami Al Qamzi, Director-General of the Department of Economic Development (DED), and Ms. Arancha Gonzalez, Executive Director ...
Read More »DUBAI / Reuters Gold trader Regal RA DMCC has become the first company in the Middle East to be awarded a licence by the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) to trade in cryptocurrencies. The licence allows the company to store bitcoin, ethereum and other alternatives to the best-known digital currencies in a vault located in the headquarters of the commodities ...
Read More »New Delhi / WAM The UAE and India have reached a historic agreement which will enable businesses on both sides to bypass the US Dollar or any other foreign currency and trade directly in UAE Dirhams and the Indian Rupee. The agreement will mean large savings for business communities on both sides as trade between the UAE and India soars ...
Read More »DUBAI / Reuters Banks in the United Arab Emirates are hopeful of recovering some funds in 2018 from the multibillion-dollar collapse of Saudi Arabia’s Saad Group and Ahmad Hamad al-Gosaibi & Bros Co (AHAB) nearly a decade ago, a senior banking official told Reuters. The two conglomerates defaulted in 2009 in Saudi Arabia’s biggest financial meltdown, leaving international and regional ...
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DUBAI / WAM Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director-General of Dubai Municipality has announced that the municipality will launch a satellite aimed at collecting data and is capable of monitoring the UAE from space. He made the announcement while speaking at the opening session of the second day of World Government Summit. Lootah said the satellite will be capable of determining different ...
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