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Dubai / WAM The UAE Gender Balance Council (UGBC) recently held its second meeting for 2017, which was led by the council’s Vice President, Mona Al Marri. During the meeting, the council discussed various topics, including the preliminary results of the Gender Balance Index across federal government entities, pension entitlements for the families of deceased female employees, the council’s brand ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Dr Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi, Director-General of the Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC), accompanied by Mohamed Salem Al Dhaheri, Executive Director of ADEC’s School Operations, and Ali Alhaj Al Mehairbi, Executive Director of Buildings Construction Management at the Abu Dhabi General Services Company, Musanada, toured two of the new school buildings located in Mohammed Bin Zayed ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The United Arab Emirates tops the list of Arab countries for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows, with around US$ 9 billion (AED33.3 billion) during 2016, followed by Egypt and then the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the third place, according to the Arab Investment and Export Credit Guarantee Corporation, Dhaman. As per the investment climate report ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai has seen its efforts to combat climate change in the city richly rewarded by the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40). The governing body, which provides strategic direction for the C40 network of 91 of the world’s greatest cities committed to action on climate change, has elected His Excellency Abdullah Abdul Rahman Al Shaibani, Secretary ...

SAN DIEGO / WAM Twenty-one entities from Abu Dhabi’s e-Government concluded a successful participation in the 2017 Esri User Conference the world’s leading Geographic Information Systems (GIS) event, which took place in San Diego, California and drew more than 15,000 specialists from 130 countries. Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Centre (ADSIC), organised and managed all aspects of the participation, on ...

DUBAI / WAM Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation (MBRF) convened its third meeting to prepare for the upcoming inaugural edition of the Global Knowledge Index, following the directives of HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation. The meeting was attended by an expert group associated with the ...

DUBAI / WAM With the goal of expanding cooperation in the field of disseminating science and knowledge in Dubai, the Dubai Electronic Security Centre (DESC) has signed an MoU with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), UAE Section. The MoU aims to strengthen mutual cooperation between both organisations with regards to developing educational materials and programmes on information ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The federal government revenues collected through e-Dirham surged to over AED2.5 billion during Q2 of 2017, a 25 percent growth over the corresponding period in 2016, according the Ministry of Finance (MoF), statistics. The government services revenues collected through the e-Govenment Website increased to a total of AED958,461,182 during the same period from AED1,583,950,310 during the ...

ABU DHABI / Reuters Telecoms group Etisalat terminated a management agreement with its Nigerian arm and given the business time to phase out the Etisalat brand in Nigeria, the chief executive of Etisalat International said on Monday. Nigerian regulators intervened last week to save Etisalat Nigeria from collapse after talks with its lenders to renegotiate a $1.2 billion loan failed. ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business The improvements in the overall business conditions in Dubai’s non-oil private sector gathered steam in June, with the seasonally adjusted Emirates NBD Dubai Economy Tracker Index – a composite indicator designed to give an accurate overview of operating conditions in the non-oil private sector economy – registering at 56.5, up from May’s seven-month low of 55.0. ...