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  Abu Dhabi / EMIRATES BUSINESS Etihad Airways Engineering has been named ‘MRO Service Provider of the Year (Middle East)’ at the Aviation Business Awards 2016. The company also won the ‘Engineering Innovation of the Year’ award for developing a unique Flying Testbed – an Airbus A320 aircraft reconfigured for testing new innovations as well as for commercial flights. Etihad ...

  Ras Al Khaimah / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, said his message to the people of the UAE on the National Agenda 2021 aims to foster transparency between the government and people. “The National Agenda 2021 sums up government work and shortens the goals ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE Banks Federation (UBF) will be hosting its 4th Middle East Banking Forum in Abu Dhabi on November 14, under the theme, “Transforming the customer experience”, to highlight de-risking and its impact on regional banks. A high level panel discussion is scheduled to explore the effects and ramifications of de-risking, which is where correspondent banking ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM All services offered by the National Media Council (NMC) are now readily available online to the media regulator’s customers via its new official smart app ‘NMC UAE APP’, launched on the first day of the 36th GITEX Technology Week (GITEX 2016). Fee payments and inquiries about media services and activities are just a few of the ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST), an independent, research-driven graduate-level university focused on advanced energy and sustainable technologies, has announced students and faculty won two of the three awards – the first and the third – for their presentations on space systems and technology at the second annual Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) ...

  Dubai / WAM Emirates Post Group (EPG) celebrated World Post Day at a special event in which UAE winners of the ‘UPU International Letter Writing Competition for Young People, 2016’ were honoured, along with participants in the Reading Week programme. At the ceremony, the top 10 student letter-writers in Arabic and top 3 in English were presented with certificates and ...

  Sharjah / WAM The 4th edition of the Sharjah International Children’s Film Festival (SICFF), will be held between October 23 and 28, the Sharjah Media Art for Youth and Children (FUNN) announced. The films will be held at various indoor locations such as JRCC and NOVO cinemas and outdoor at Al Majaz Waterfront and Al Qasba venues, it was also ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai consumer electronics market size is forecast to grow at 4.7 percent over the next 4 years to exceed US$3 billion by 2020, according to a recent analysis of Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, released on the occasion of chamber’s participation in the GITEX Technology Week, 2016. According to analysis based on the latest UAE retail ...

  Dubai / WAM Obaid Humaid Al Tayer, Minister of State for Financial Affairs, has said that the Ministry of Finance has developed a number of leading e-systems to raise levels of effectiveness and efficiency of services, as part of its commitment to strengthen and support innovation, as well as benefit from IT applications. Highlighting key initiatives taken by the government ...

  Dubai / WAM The Ministry of Finance (MoF), in partnership with National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), launched eDebit and eDirect services on the eve of GITEX Technology Week 2016, which opened at the Dubai World Trade Centre on Sunday. The eDebit service, launched for the first time in the UAE, allows payment of service fees and purchases through direct ...