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  Dubai / Emirates Business Ahead of the Middle East Hotel Awards (MEHA) 2016 this week (May 24), judges have revealed a 63% increase in entries.From hundreds of entries, judges noted particular increases in entrants from hotels in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon and Jordan. As many as 70 hotels and hotel suppliers have now been shortlisted across 24 award ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Following an intensive evaluation process, the UAE Research Program for Rain Enhancement Science has shortlisted 15 of the most advanced pre-proposals from world-leading experts as part of the evaluation process of its ongoing second cycle. The research teams that made the cut belong to North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The selected ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Mohammad Bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund (MBZ Fund) announced the launch of US$5.8 million grant to save the endangered dugong and its seagrass ecosystems in the Indian and the Pacific Oceans. The programme will implement 38 projects in Indonesia, East Timor, The Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Madagascar, Mozambique, and Vanuatu. As part of ...

DUBAI / WAM The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry has announced the establishment of the Kuwait Business Council in Dubai to boost economic cooperation and enhancement of trade and commerce between the business communities of Dubai and Kuwait. Taking the total to 47 business councils operating under the umbrella of Dubai Chamber, and 2nd in the GCC after the ...

  Ajman / Emirates Business The Ajman Tourism Development Department (ATDD) wrapped up a successful road show in Europe held from May 16-20, returning with encouraging feedback from the European tourism and travel market. More than 500 representatives from leading travel and tourism companies attended the UAE Destination presentations held in the cities of Prague in Czech Republic, followed by ...

  Dubai / WAM The Department of Economic Development (DED) in Dubai launched on Sunday ‘DEDTalks’, a knowledge exchange platform for thought leaders and decision-makers from the public and private sectors to meet regularly and share experiences, ideas, analyses and best practices relating to the economy and doing business. DEDTalks is the latest initiative from DED for continued engagement with the ...

  Dubai / WAM The 14th annual Dubai Financial Market (DFM) and Nasdaq Dubai Trading Game, aimed at sharpening the skills of university and school students in the UAE and abroad, ended with total traded value of AED 5.4 billion from 16,802 transactions, with the top 13 participants achieving average profits of 35.6 percent. For the first time, the game included ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Economy (MoE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with publishing firm ‘MyM merchan’, one of the partners of Spanish newspaper and website, ‘El Economista,’ to publish a special supplement about the UAE economy in print and on its website in both Spanish and English. The MoU was signed by Mohammed Ahmed bin Abdul ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM As part of its vision to achieve global leadership in financial management, the Ministry of Finance (MoF) launched its PASS 99 Integrated Management System under the PDCA cycle model (plan, do, check, act), to be implemented in multiple stages. The first stage includes implementing the system within quality systems to manage Information Technology, and in the ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The United Arab Emirates is leaving no stone unturned in fighting human trafficking since the country enacted Federal Law 51 in 2006, the National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking (NCCHT) said. According to the Annual Report 2015 compiled and released by the NCCHT, the UAE has made great inroads in containing the crime during the last ...