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Abu Dhabi / WAM Etihad Airways on Tuesday announced plans to boost its European Dreamliner network with the deployment of Boeing 787-9 aircraft to Amsterdam and Madrid. The 299-seat Dreamliners will be introduced on year-round scheduled services to Amsterdam from September 1, and to Madrid from October 1, joining Dusseldorf and Zurich as the airline’s other European Dreamliner services. The ...

Dubai / WAM Senior officials from the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), and Dubai Police have met to discuss road safety strategies in preparation for Dubai hosting Expo 2020. Mattar Al Tayer, RTA Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, and Major General Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri, Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police, discussed the Dubai Traffic Safety Strategy and ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM To celebrate the #Year of Giving, Etihad Guest has launched a special Ramadan campaign with Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), to provide thousands of meals to families and children in need in Somalia. Members of Etihad Airways’ award-winning loyalty programme can donate their miles to the emergency response in the African country, with 750 Etihad Guest Miles ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), announced that it awarded the contract for the third phase of K-Station at Jebel Ali Power Station to Spanish company Duro Felguera, worth AED798 million. The project includes the supply, installation, testing and launch of 2 F-type gas turbines from Siemens AG that will produce 590MW at 50 degrees centigrade. The ...

Ajman / WAM Abdulrahman Mohamed Abdullah Al Nuaimi, Director-General of the Municipality and Planning Department, has launched the strategic project ‘Sanad’ in cooperation with Huawei, the giant telecommunications and information technology corporation. The project aims to build and update technical infrastructure services by applying the latest and advanced technology that ensures information and networks security, agility, and easily converting to ...

Sharjah / WAM The Sharjah Economic Development Department (SEDD), has launched the “Consumer Empowerment Index” to measure consumers’ knowledge about a number of policies, initiatives and standards of the product and the market. The Index has been released to reveal wrong practices committed by consumers when purchasing, as well as to facilitate the procedure of claiming consumers’ rights. The Department ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Financial Market (DFM) for the fifth consecutive year and as part of its leading investor and issuer services, has successfully accomplished its cash dividend distribution for the financial year 2016, with as much as AED12.6 billion been disseminated to 331,000 investors. The number of listed companies that have outsourc- ed the dividend distribution process to DFM ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Dubai Post digital platform. Dubai Post will set up and implement special visual content that reflects DEWA’s efforts in supporting its employees and helping them advance in various jobs, providing them with the appropriate environment to achieve the future objectives of DEWA and its ...

DUBAI / Reuters The government of Dubai is expected to raise the money needed to extend the city’s metro with an initial loan of roughly $500 million that will later be followed by loans guaranteed by export credit agencies (ECAs), banking sources familiar with the matter said on Monday. The department of finance will approach banks over the next couple ...

Dubai / WAM The 5th Nad Al Sheba Sports Tournament was launched by HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation, at the NAS Sports Complex, with the first two preliminary round matches of the volleyball competition held late in the day. “Unlimited Capabilities” is the theme of the 2017 ...