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Madrid / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, met Spanish Foreign Minister, Alfonso Dastis, and discussed with him enhancing cooperation between the two countries and means of developing relations in various fields. During the meeting, part of Sheikh Abdullah’s official visit to Spain, they exchanged views on a number of ...

Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, visited ‘Arab Health Exhibition and Congress’ hosted by the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) until Thursday. Accompanied by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates, the world’s best airline according to TripAdvisor 2017, on Wednesday announced its plan to launch a new, five times a week, service from Dubai to Santiago International Airport (SCL), via the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, starting on July 5. The new service will see Emirates fly an additional five times a week to Sao ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (ADNEC), and Nation Shield, the official journal of the UAE Armed Forces, have signed a partnership agreement to promote the 2018 editions of the Unmanned Systems Exhibition and Conference (UMEX), and Simulation and Training Exhibition and Conference (SimTEX). As the official media partner of UMEX and SimTEX 2018, the magazine will ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Events to celebrate the ‘Year of Zayed’ in 2018 is to reach China, as Zayed University joins hands with the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Cultural Centre and Mosque at Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), in China, to unveil a series of activities planned for October, during the annual Confucius Institute board meeting, which was held at ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Gulf Navigation Holding PJSC, (GulfNav), appointed Al Ramz Corporation Investment and Development listed in Dubai Financial Market as a Co-Bookrunner to manage their ‘Rights Issue’ in order to increase its capital to AED1 billion. Al Ramz Corporation was selected following the completion of all the final approvals from the Securities and Commodities Authority. According to the ...

MARRAKESH / WAM Solidarity and equality between men and women is a fundamental right within the UAE, and the nation’s leadership has been highly dedicated to the advancement of gender equality to achieve the highly anticipated national agenda, said Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi, President of Zayed University (ZU). Al Qasimi’s remarks came during her two-day panel discussion on ...

DUBAI / WAM The National Bank of Ras Al Khaimah (RAKBank) reported a 22 percent y-on-y jump in net profit, which reached AED810.5 million in 2017, up from AED663 million a year earlier. “The figure puts net profit in the fourth quarter of 2017 at AED204.2 million, close to twice the AED108.7 million in net profit in the same quarter ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) and Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore cooperation across eight key healthcare pillars. The agreement will see the organisations collaborate on a range of healthcare and therapeutic areas in which Mubadala Healthcare and its network of world class healthcare companies has deep expertise. ...

DUBAI / WAM Private healthcare in the Gulf Cooperation Council region, estimated at $62 billion in 2016, is forecasted to expand 8.7 percent annually, to reach $94 billion in 2021, according to MENA Research Partners (MRP), a leading research company in the region. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the UAE together represent more than two third of the market, ...