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Abu Dhabi / WAM Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) and SafeGold, Asia’s leading digital gold platform, have signed an MoU to advance SafeGold’s vision of digitising gold investment and enabling a digital ecosystem to flourish within the Middle East and North Africa region’s $20 billion gold market. With SafeGold’s proprietary technology and DMCC’s leadership in the commodities and crypto-technology space, ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) and Modon have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on environmental initiatives to reduce air pollution, protect wildlife, marine life, and natural resources. This is in addition to developing programmes that ensure a safe and healthy environment and enhance Abu Dhabi’s efforts to achieve the goals ...

  Sharjah / WAM Alef group, the leading real estate developer in Sharjah, has launched Darb 3 in Al Mamsha Raseel (Zone 3), following record sales achieved with Al Mamsha Raseel – Darb 1 development project, to be delivered on time in the last quarter of 2024. The launch of Darb 3 coincides with recent amendments to Sharjah property ownership ...

  Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, witnessed the launch of the ‘Emirates Villages’, a AED1 billion project aimed at developing a sustainable development model and creating economic and business opportunities to promote social stability and wellbeing. HH Sheikh Theyab bin Mohamed bin ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) and SafeGold, Asia’s leading digital gold platform, have signed an MoU to advance SafeGold’s vision of digitising gold investment and enabling a digital ecosystem to flourish within the Middle East and North Africa region’s $20 billion gold market. With SafeGold’s proprietary technology and DMCC’s leadership in the commodities and crypto-technology space, the ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority (ECA) has announced the launch of a new Parenting Programme with a consortium of partners including Zayed University, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), and the Emirates College for Advanced Education (ECAE). The consortium brings together leading Emirati and international academics, experts and researchers, with the aim of developing a ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The National Health Insurance Company – Daman, has announced the launch of a new range of health insurance plans for visitors to the UAE who intend to travel to Qatar for the football World Cup in November and December. The World Cup Travel Insurance Plan (Multi Trip) will cover visitors to the UAE who intend ...

  Dubai / WAM Emirates District Cooling Company (Emicool), a joint venture between Dubai Investments, a leading investment company listed on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) and Actis LLC, a leading global investor in sustainable infrastructure, has signed a Power Purchase Agreement with Emirates Electrical Engineering (EEE), one of the solar market leaders in the UAE. The agreement confirms the ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Masdar, one of the world’s leading renewable energy companies, has signed a joint development agreement (JDA) with Turkmenenergo State Power Corporation of the Ministry of Energy of Turkmenistan (Turkmenenergo), to develop a 100 megawatt (MWac) solar photovoltaic (PV) plant, which will be the company’s first project in Turkmenistan. The JDA signing was witnessed by Serdar ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Tuesday held a phone call with Joko Widodo, President of the Republic of Indonesia. During the call, His Highness offered his sincere condolences to the President and people of Indonesia and to the families of the victims of the earthquake that struck the island of ...