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  Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) on Monday announced that it has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with the Emirati Talent Competitiveness Council (Nafis), to accelerate the recruitment of talent in the private sector and create 3,000 additional jobs for UAE nationals in its supply chain by 2025. Through this agreement, Adnoc will step up ...

  Abu Dhabi / Gulf Time AD Ports group, the leading facilitator of global trade, logistics, and industry in Abu Dhabi, announced on Monday that it will host the 2022 edition of the World Union of Wholesale Markets Conference (WUWM), a major event for the fresh food industry that will bring together high level – public and private sector – ...

Sarajevo / WAM Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi, President of the International Publishers Association (IPA), has travelled to Sarajevo to meet with stakeholders from the publishing community of Bosnia and Herzegovina as they continue their recovery and response to the challenges presented by the global pandemic, and by increasing global instability. Underscoring the IPA’s mission to support and promote publishing for ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has announced the launch of an Automatic Smart Grid Restoration System (ASGR), the first of its kind in the Mena region, to increase the control, management, and monitoring of its power network. The system works around the clock without any human intervention. It uses a smart, innovative, and central system ...

  Dubai / WAM The Dubai Health Authority (DHA), which regulates the health insurance sector in Dubai, has launched “Ejadah” programme, the first-of-its-kind value-based healthcare model for the emirate. The value-based healthcare model will pay for performance and outcomes that matter to patients, and will assist healthcare service providers with evidence-based guidelines which will be a framework for all physicians ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM “Emirates Wheat”, which was launched in 2017, is one of the leading initiatives in the agriculture sector and involves 170 farms, representing most of the national efforts to achieve food security by producing over 80 tonnes of wheat. The national initiative, headed by farmer Humaid Obaid Al Zaabi, aims to boost the country’s wheat production, ...

Bloomberg Group of Seven (G-7) negotiators agreed that discussions on a potential price cap on Russian oil had progressed enough to send the issue to leaders to discuss at their summit in Germany. The negotiators known as sherpas held what one official described as “intense” talks on the matter in the Bavarian Alps before the summit began on Sunday. While ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a cable to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, expressing his condolences and sincere sympathy over the death of Princess Moudhi bint Musaed bin Abdurrahman bin Faisal Al Saud. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has finalised a master plan for investing its data in line with the provisions of Law No 26 of 2015 Regulating Data Dissemination and Exchange in Dubai and subsequent policies. The law, which is aligned with the UAE Vision 2021, supports the pillars of a competitive economy driven by knowledge ...

Dubai / WAM Emirates Health Services (EHS) signed a memorandum of understanding with Johnson & Johnson Middle East to strengthen collaboration towards developing more advanced health services, as well as innovative hi-tech solutions to support the sector and boost its regional and international competitiveness. The MoU outlines various areas of cooperation for EHS to work on with Johnson & Johnson ...