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  Dubai / WAM New Zealand Minister for Economic Development, Simon Bridges formally announced the country’s participation in Expo 2020 Dubai on Monday by delivering a letter of acceptance from Simon William English, Prime Minister of New Zealand. The country shares close ties with the UAE, as well as a shared vision in many key areas, such as energy and education. ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Board of Directors of Abu Dhabi Housing Authority (ADHA) under the chairmanship of Saeed Eid Al Ghafli, exempted 16 cases from loan payments totalling AED12 million due to deaths. During its first meeting this year, the ADHA board also reviewed 936 requests for the replacement of a land grant for a built housing facility, including ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE Research Programme for Rain Enhancement Science is collaborating with a team of leading meteorologists to develop a potentially ground-breaking technology revolving around the ‘electrical seeding’ of clouds, a theoretical concept that studies the effect of electrical charges on rain-bearing clouds. Alya Al Mazroui, Manager of the UAE Research Programme for Rain Enhancement Science, and ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai’s tourism sector sustained the momentum of its strong 2017 start, with the emirate’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism) reporting a stellar 11 percent increase in overnight visitation in the first three months of the year compared to the same period in 2016. January to March 2017 saw 4.57 million travellers visit ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM ZonesCorp announced its participation in the Hannover Messe exhibition, the world’s leading industrial technology show, being held in Hannover, until April 28. Saeed Eisa Al Khyeli, Director-General of ZonesCorp, said, “ZonesCorp’s participation this year in Hannover Messe is a valuable opportunity to showcase the success of the industrial sector in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MoCCaE) has banned imports of certain vegetables and fruits from select countries with effect from May 15 as those products have been found to contain pesticide residues in excess of permissible limits. The counties that will be impacted by the ban include Egypt, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon and Yemen. ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The total value of 1,153 hospitality projects in the six members of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) exceeded US$148.4 billion (AED544.62 billion) in the first quarter of 2017, according to a new report by project research and intelligence provider BNC Network. The GCC’s hospitality industry constitutes 7 per cent of all active projects in the ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The sixth session of the UAE-Azerbaijan Joint Economic Committee, held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Dubai, and co-chaired by Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy, and his counterpart, Shahin Mustafayev, Minister of Economic Development in Azerbaijan, concluded on a high note. Those at the committee’s meeting discussed economic co-operation and enhancing bilateral ...

  LONDON / WAM Embassy of the UAE in London has hosted a lunch banquet in honour of a delegation from the UAE Ministry of Economy and private organisations and British investors participating in the UK-GCC Public Private Partnership Conference in London, to bolster ties among the business communities in both countries. In remarks delivered at the banquet, UAE Ambassador ...

  SHARJAH / WAM Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has signed an agreement with Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI), in its capacity as the representative of the International Certificates of Origin Council (CO), according to which COs issued by Sharjah Chamber will be awarded an international recognition. The agreement aims to allow scaling of international commercial ...