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  ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a message of condolences to King Charles III of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM Abdullah Al Muwaiji, Chairman of the Ajman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), received an economic delegation from the Russian Federation, to discuss prospects for developing relations between business owners from the two countries and highlighting investment opportunities available in real estate and building & construction sectors. The meeting was attended by Mohamed Ali Al ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Ahmed Mohammed Belajer Al Rumaithi, Undersecretary of the Department of Energy (DoE), has received Amir Hayek, Ambassador of Israel to the UAE, to discuss areas of cooperation and development in clean and renewable energy between the two countries. Al Rumaithi highlighted the importance of building bridges of cooperation in various energy sectors, especially water, electricity, wastewater ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM AD Ports group’s Safeen Feeders has launched a new UAE-China service, deploying a recently purchased container vessel, Safeen Power, with a capacity of 3,400 TEUs. The monthly service will connect the Chinese ports of Shanghai, Qingdao and Ningbo directly with Khalifa Port in Abu Dhabi, opening an important new trade route. It will be Safeen ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Etihad Rail announced the successful completion of the connection between the railway freight terminal at the Industrial City of Abu Dhabi (ICAD), which is the largest inland freight railway terminal in the country, and the UAE National Rail Network. The company completed tracklaying works and conducting successful tests on the new line, which extends from ...

  Dubai / WAM A total of 2,594 real estate transactions worth AED9.4 billion ($2.56 billion) were conducted during the week ending September 9, according to figures released by the Dubai Land Department. A total of 209 plots were sold for AED946.55 million, 1,871 apartments and villas were purchased for AED3.92 billion. The top three transactions were a land in Island ...

ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, have witnessed the signing of a landmark gas sales agreement between Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) and Dubai Supply Authority (Dusup). The agreement showcases the ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development has officially announced that its membership programme has been enhanced and updated with a variety of business add-ons, which will further encourage and enable entrepreneurship. The membership updates includes an unlimited amount of trade license business registrations, which was originally 1 license per entrepreneur; fewer age restrictions, with anyone being ...

  Sharjah / WAM American University of Sharjah (AUS) is one of the top five institutions worldwide for community engagement in sustainability, according to the 2022 Sustainable Campus Index (SCI) issued by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). A publication from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, the SCI highlighted innovative ...

  Al Ain / WAM A team of researchers from the Department of Biology at the College of Science at the UAE University (UAEU), in cooperation with a number of researchers and international centres in Russia, succeeded in discovering an unknown type of crustacean “Diplostraca” of microorganisms in the animal kingdom in Arabian Peninsula within the group of common species. ...