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  ALKESH SHARMA / Emirates Business In a bid to tackle the crisis situation hovering over the Middle East’s mobile phone industry, vendors have strategically shifted their focus to low to mid-range devices. To beat the market plummet, they are offering consumers mid-range mobiles, falling in the price bracket of AED500 to AED800. Market reports say that most of the ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business Emirates Green Building Council (EmiratesGBC), an independent forum aimed at conserving the environment by strengthening and promoting green building practices, underlined the measures that can be adopted to improve air quality and the role of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in adversely impacting green building design at its recent Networking Seminar. The discussion on ‘What’s in ...

  Sharjah/ Emirates Business Sharjah Asset Management (SAM), the investment arm of the Government of Sharjah, has announced that just days after announcing their availability for sale, land plots for the Stage 2 area of Al Saja’a Industrial Oasis have been eagerly snapped up by UAE, GCC, Arab residents and foreign nationals. All buyers being keen to take advantage of ...

    Emirates Business The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) launched the initiative, ‘In The Presence of a Book,’ which includes quarterly discussion sessions. Each session will highlight one book published locally and to be discussed in the presence of the book’s author, intellectuals and TRA employees, where attendees will have an open forum with the author. The initiative will be ...

  Dubai / WAM The UAE’s solar power programme, the UAE Solar Programme of Activities (PoA), has been approved by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Board. The PoA was initiated by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) in collaboration with Dubai Carbon Centre of Excellence, Dubai Carbon, to promote the development of solar power in the ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Parks and Resorts, set to become the Middle East’s largest integrated theme park destination on its opening in October this year, announced that it has appointed 744 Emirati employees since the launch of its ambitious Emiratisation programme which aims to hire 1,000 UAE nationals. This announcement follows a highly successful three-day attendance at Careers ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The National Qualifications Authority (NQA) received at its headquarters in Abu Dhabi the delegation of Indonesian Embassy to UAE who was briefed on the UAE experience in developing and implementing the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) and the associated policies and procedures. The delegation, headed by Hussein Baqas, the Indonesian Ambassador to the UAE, discussed with HE ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai South has launched the ‘Ramadan Smile’ initiative as part of its CSR outreach during the Holy Month of Ramadan. The initiative will see Dubai South distribute Iftar boxes, Sakany-branded caps and T-shirts to workers of partner organizations, including IKEA, Nestle and Aramex among others, in three waves during Ramadan. The health and wellbeing of ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The UAE Ministry of Economy (MoE) received a delegation from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) at its Dubai headquarters that met members of the organizing committee of the Global Manufacturing and Industrialization Summit (GMIS). The meeting is part of ongoing preparations for the launch of the inaugural edition of the event in ...

DUBAI / WAM In his capacity as Ruler of Dubai, the Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, issued Law No. (8) of the year 2016 regulating the granting of law enforcement capacity in the emirate of Dubai. The law will ensure proper implementation of legislations by those granted law enforcement ...