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  Abu Dhabi / WAM Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, signed a new codeshare agreement with kulula, South Africa’s low cost carrier, to build its presence in Africa. The codeshare deal offers Etihad Airways customers flight options to a number of key cities in South Africa, including Cape Town, Durban, George and East London via Johannesburg. Etihad Airways ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business HE Obaid Humaid Al Tayer, Minister of State for Financial Affairs, will head the UAE delegation at the annual meeting of the World Bank Group (WBG) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC from October 07-09. HE Obaid Humaid Al Tayer will hold a series of bilateral meetings aimed at strengthening the UAE’s relations ...

    Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) is set to showcase its smart and sustainable solutions; reflecting the Group’s strategy to drive innovation across all its business segments at the Water, Energy, Technology, and Environment Exhibition (WETEX 2016) to be held in Dubai on October 4-6. ENOC’s smart solutions underline the Group’s commitment to environmental ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business Marking its third anniversary, the Middle East’s first and largest car buying service is celebrating with three new locations within the United Arab Emirates. Since the UAE has one of the highest automobile turnover rates in the region, it is the ideal location to add to the existing current four locations in Abu Dhabi and ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business Gargash Enterprises, the authorized general distributor of Mercedes-Benz in Dubai, Sharjah & Northern Emirates, reaffirms its social commitment yet again by introducing ‘Score for Charity’, a first-of-its-kind initiative in the region. In a unique collaboration with Al Ahli Football Club, Gargash Enterprises has announced a contribution of AED 1,000 for each goal scored by Al ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions has announced the availability of the Ansible Tower App for Splunk, an application that integrates Ansible Tower by Red Hat with Splunk® Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. The application brings the power and variety of Splunk analytics queries to Ansible Tower automation, and ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business A new season of Abu Dhabi Classics presented by Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) begins this week with the first visit to the emirate by The West Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO) for a night dedicated to 19th Century German composer Richard Wagner. The concert on Thursday, October 6 at Emirates Palace ...

  ABU DHABI / Emirates Business The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, an independent, research-driven graduate-level university focused on advanced energy, and sustainable technologies, on Sunday announced that more than 500 stakeholders from the academia, industry and government will be gathering to network and exchange information at the 22nd Solar Power And Chemical Energy Systems (SolarPACES) Conference, taking place ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business The Middle East market for security, safety, and fire protection is on track for double digit growth over the next four years, as regional governments and the private sector look for improved technologies to better protect assets, people, businesses, and borders. Led by the Gulf nations of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, regional countries are ...

  Sharjah / Emirates Business Officials from the UAE Board on Books for Young People (UAEBBY), the national branch of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), recently visited the UAE Red Crescent Authority moderated Emirati-Jordanian refugee camp at the Mrajeeb Al Fhood in Jordan. Representatives from Knowledge without Borders (KwB) accompanied the officials, with the delegation’s visit ...