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  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Maqta Gateway, a wholly owned subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Ports (ADP) will host the annual International Port Community Systems Association (IPCSA) Conference for the first time in the GCC region. The conference will be held in Abu Dhabi on December 7 this year at the St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort. The 2016 IPCSA Conference will ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business ADNOC Distribution has expanded its presence in Sharjah with the opening of five rebranded service stations as part of the Asset Transfer Agreement signed with ENOC in 2015. The total number of ADNOC service stations in the Emirate of Sharjah is 85. The five new service stations include Wasit-2, Al Rawdha, Al Deyar, Al ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, celebrated the graduation of 310 future leaders from the company’s Future Leaders Programmes. The graduation event at Al Raha Beach Hotel in Abu Dhabi was attended by His Excellency Mohamed Mubarak Fadhel Al Mazrouei, Chairman of Etihad Aviation Group and board members, His Excellency ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business SIAL 2016, the region’s fastest-growing professional trade exhibition for the food, beverage and hospitality industries, will return to Abu Dhabi where it will once again host the world’s leading supply companies to the airline catering sector, during the 35th edition of The Mercurys. SIAL, under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Parks and Resorts on Wednesday announced that every year it will celebrate UAE National Day with a limited number of tickets priced equivalent to the anniversary year. This year, Dubai Parks and Resorts will celebrate the 45thUAE National Day with 4,500 tickets for AED45 per person per park from (December 1–3) at LEGOLAND Dubai ...

  Bloomberg The Dubai International Film Festival will this year feature the launch of the Arab Cinema Lab to help finance new projects. Organized independently by MAD Solutions, the Lab looks to function as “a film financing incubator for accelerating the new film projects and new business ideas that will drive the Arab film industry forward over the coming year,” ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The Emirates Diplomatic Academy (EDA), the UAE’s international relations and diplomacy academic, training, best-practice and research institution, on Wednesday marked UAE Innovation Week with a designated innovation programme focused on the future of 21st Century diplomacy. Students heard and explored how diplomacy of the future will be shaped by everything from robotics to artificial ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Frank de Winne, the Belgian astronaut, led a university roadshow in the UAE this week as part of Next Gen Space Initiative and the UAE’s first Belgian Week. The Next Gen initiative, designed to educate and inspire youth on space, is supporting the build-up campaign towards the Global Space Congress, which will be held in ...

  DUBAI / WAM Lower oil prices have created economic pressure in the members of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) by impacting revenues while also creating opportunities, Abdulla Jassem bin Kalban, MD and CEO of Emirates Global Aluminium(EGA), said and noted that “the greatest success story is industrialisation through the GCC aluminium industry.” “Economic ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM In his capacity as Chairman of the Executive Council of Abu Dhabi, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, issued a resolution reconstituting the board of the Tourism Development and Investment Company (TDIC), the emirate’s master developer of major tourism ...