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Abu Dhabi / WAM Building on the ongoing efforts of the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH) in spearheading Abu Dhabi’s healthcare ecosystem, AstraZeneca, a science-led biopharmaceutical company, and G42 Healthcare, an AI-powered healthcare company, signed a strategic partnership agreement to locally manufacture innovative drugs in Abu Dhabi. The binding agreement focuses on collaboration in four key areas including ...

Dubai / WAM InfraX, a subsidiary of Digital Dewa, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with UnaBiz, Massive IoT service provider and the new owner of Sigfox 0G technology. Rashid Al Ahmedi, COO of InfraX, and Phillippe Chiu, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of UnaBiz, signed the MoU, which will pave way for joint collaborations between the parties that will see ...

  DUBAI / WAM As the 2022 World Cup in Qatar united the world to the Middle East, nearly 2,000 global business executives and investors will attend the World Corporate Summit in Dubai to share the vision of improving the world through business. Held in Dubai from November 21 until December 15 at the Palace Downtown Hotel, this record-breaking mega ...

  Dubai / Gulf Time After having firmly entrenched itself the world over Momentum Group is all set to foray in the multicultural cosmopolitan Dubai market which is synonymous with the posh shopping malls, penthouses and where the real estate and tourism activity is fast returning to normal. The three-decade old group under the able guidance of Gamal El Hakim ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (Adib) received the e-Marketplace Champion Award for its excellence in digital adoption from blockchain-powered e-Marketplace TradeAssets. With TradeAssets platform, Adib has secured 130 deals with total value of over $128 million till date and 11 banks from Bangladesh. Abdulla Shehhi – Global Head International Business Group (IBG), at Adib, said, “Adib ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC), part of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), has helped develop an innovative new app that encourages adoption and mastery of the Arabic language. The ‘Scan and Learn Arabic’ app, launched in collaboration with Abu Dhabi’s Department of Community Development (DCD) and Department ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the largest industry company in the UAE outside of oil and gas, has agreed to supply CelestiAL solar aluminium to Kobe Steel to make automotive body sheet for Nissan The agreement with Kobe Steel will see the supply of EGA’s CelestiAL solar aluminium to one of the largest rolling mills in Japan. ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The United Arab Emirates was announced as the host of the 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The foremost deliberation body of the WTO, which meets once every two years, will be coming to Abu Dhabi in the first quarter of 2024, placing the UAE at the heart of the conversations ...

  Ajman / WAM His Highness Sheikh Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ajman, approved the Ajman Government’s public budget worth AED2.920 billion, a rise of 21 percent compared to last year’s budget, which is deemed the largest in the emirate’s history. HH Sheikh Ammar bin Humaid Al Nuaimi, Crown Prince of Ajman and Chairman ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (Adio), in collaboration with the Department of Municipalities and Transport (DMT), has selected French consortium EDF (Eléctricité de France) and Engie to deliver Phase 2 of its Road Lighting LED public-private partnership (PPP) project. DMT has signed a partnership agreement with Nojoom, a joint venture between EDF and Engie, to ...