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  DUBAI / Emirates Business Dubai Trade, the premier cross-border trade facilitator, has revealed substantial growth in the number of companies registered and the value of transactions carried out in 2015. There were 113,354 companies registered with Dubai Trade, with over 19.5 million transactions during the year, 5 percent up on 2014. Dubai Trade’s secured ePayment gateway “Rosoom” recorded 1.1million ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Al Gharbia Pipe Company, a joint venture between Senaat, one of the largest industrial holding companies in the UAE, and two of Japan’s leading companies in the steel sector; JFE Steel Corporation and Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc. (MISI), has broken ground in the Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (Kizad). Al Gharbia will be the UAE’s ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Ducab, the UAE-based leading manufacturer of high-quality cables and cabling products, is demonstrating how industrial solutions answer real-world problems at the Think Science Competition Exhibition. The fourth edition of the competition and exhibition, held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairman of Emirates Foundation, ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM Suhail bin Mohammed Faraj Faris Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy, on Saturday visited the ADNOC Distribution service station located in Abu Dhabi’s Khalifa City. He was accompanied by Abdullah Salem Al Dhaheri, Marketing and Refining Director at ADNOC and Saeed Mubarak Al-Rashidi, Acting Chief Executive Officer of ADNOC Distribution and other members of the company’s ...

  DUBAI / WAM Under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance and President of the DHA, the 3rd edition of Int’l Family Medicine Conference and Expo will begin on Sunday at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition centre, themed “Overcoming Challenges in Primary Health Care”. The IFM ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The records set by the general index of confidence in the business climate and its sub-indexes in 2015 shows a continuous positive outlook. According to the index survey and statements of respondents, Khalifa Bin Salem Al Mansoori, ADDED Acting Undersecretary noted, the key factors that have their effects on the evaluation of business establishments of the ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Emirates diplomatic Academy (EDA) organized an interactive training course for over 100 students of the UAE Youth Ambassador Program (UAEYAP). The 3-day course, held in Emirates Diplomatic Academy in Abu Dhabi, focused on familiarizing participants with elements of diplomacy, protocol, etiquette and communication, negotiation skills, as well as teaching them how to conduct country ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) held a brainstorming session on Saturday to discuss ways to strengthen collaboration between the Authority’s hospital and primary healthcare sector. The aim of the session was to help device mechanisms and policies that will help further strengthen the continuum of care for patients. HE Humaid Al Qatami, Chairman of the ...

  Dubai / WAM Emirates Environmental Group (EEG) continues its quest of increasing sustainable green spaces within UAE under its flagship campaign ‘For our Emirates We Plant’. With the aim of inculcating an urge to recycle within different sectors of the society, EEG launched a special recycling campaign wherein participants were asked to collect certain quantities of paper and aluminium Cans ...

  Dubai / WAM Under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance and President of the Dubai Health Authority, the 3rd edition of International Family Medicine Conference and Exhibition (IFM) will begin on Sunday at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition centre, themed “Overcoming Challenges in Primary Health Care”. ...