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DUBAI / Emirates Business In an awareness campaign launched by the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism) six young social media influencers from the region took part in the Dubai Summer Challenge to prove that Dubai provides great value to visitors. The project highlighted the diversity of value offerings and experiences that tourists can choose from during their ...

DUBAI / WAM Hussain bin Ibrahim Al Hammadi, Minister of Education, stressed that the Emirati schools have become more established, developed and up-to-date with the best international systems. He added that the ministry has conducted a series of continuous improvement programmes, as part of their development efforts to adopt the best educational standards and practices in the country’s education system, ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Emaar Properties announced the launch of an exhilarating tourist attraction that will especially appeal to adventure lover with the new Sky Walk, a 200-metre high cantilever observation corridor in the Address Sky View development in Downtown Dubai. Sky Walk offers the unique experience of taking in spectacular views from a height of 200 metres as the ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has announced that the adoption rate of its smart services has reached 80 percent, ahead of the deadline set by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to reduce the number of visitors to government offices by 80 ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates NBD’s Pepper has now learnt to speak Arabic! The artificial intelligence (AI) powered humanoid robot, brought to the UAE by Emirates NBD last year, has been widely popular due to his novel proposition and charming personality, and will now also cater to the bank’s Arabic-speaking customers. Adding a fun element to the banking experience, the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has sent cables of congratulations on the occasion of Eid al-Adha to all Arab and Islamic leaders. President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa wished the Arab and Islamic nations, their leaders and peoples more success and prosperity. Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, ...

VANCOUVER / WAM DP World has completed the Phase 2 North expansion project designed to increase container throughput at Prince Rupert’s Fairview Container terminal. DP World Group Chairman and CEO, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, and The Honourable Francois-Philippe Champagne, Minister of International Trade, Government of Canada, marked the occasion with a ribbon cutting ceremony in Prince Rupert, in the presence ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Emirates Post Group (EPG) discussed cooperation with Universal Postal Union (UPU) in postal field. This came during a meeting between Chairman of EPG, Mohamed Sultan Al-Qadi, and UPU Director-General Bishar Hussein, Regional Coordinator of International Development Programme for African Countries Abdellatif Meskine. The meeting was attended by Chief Support Services Officer at EPG Sami Alkhaja, ...

Dubai / WAM The Dubai 10X Programme Team at the Supreme Legislation Committee in the Emirate of Dubai (SLC) have highlighted the most important futuristic projects that support the ‘Dubai 10X’ initiative in a recent seminar held at the SLC General Secretariat headquarters. The seminar was aimed at promoting Dubai as a pioneering environment in the UAE for the development ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Remittances to developing markets have proved to be a powerful force in drastically improving the quality of people’s lives, says Xpress Money’s COO, Sudhesh Giriyan. Giriyan’s statement comes after a report released by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) that shows regular remittances to families in developing markets help reduce the level of poverty, and ...