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Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, and talabat, the region’s leading food delivery and q-commerce platform, have signed a region-wide Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The agreement will see the two organisations collaborate on a range of initiatives that will benefit both Etihad Airways and talabat customers and employees. The MoU, signed on Tuesday ...

Dubai / WAM With less than 10 days to go until it opens its doors to the world, Expo 2020 Dubai on Tuesday launched its official song. Titled, “This Is Our Time,” the song highlights pride in the UAE’s culture, celebrates the future and brings together nations from around the world, while conveying the story of Expo’s overarching theme of ...

CAIRO/Dubai / WAM The Arab Parliament has expressed its complete rejection of the resolution passed by the European Parliament (EP) criticising the UAE’s human rights record. In a meeting presided over by its Speaker Adel bin Abdulrahman Al Asoomi, the Arab Parliament stressed that the resolution included factually incorrect information with regards to human rights in the UAE. In its ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Mohammed Saif Al-Suwaidi, Director-General of the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), received at the fund’s headquarters a government delegation from Georgia headed by Natia Turnava, Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development, in the presence of Paata Kalandadze, Ambassador of Georgia to the UAE, and Rashid Al Kaabi, Director of Investments Department at ADFD. The two ...

ABU DHABI/ WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has received a letter of thanks from Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, in reply to a congratulatory cable he earlier sent to him on winning Iran’s presidential election. In his message, President Raisi expressed hope to develop bilateral relations with the UAE, especially in the economic field, citing the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Chinese Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai is expected to receive around two million visitors, a top executive of the Chinese Business Council (CBC) in the UAE told Emirates News Agency (WAM), adding that the global event will also help “attract more overseas enterprises to the UAE and open new opportunities for Chinese businesses in the ...

DUBAI / WAM Emirates is increasing flight frequencies to a number of US destinations starting October. The airline has been building up connectivity in response to growing customer demand on the back of rising travel confidence and the easing of international travel protocols. There has also been a growing interest from US travellers to visit Dubai, a city that offers ...

ABU DHABI / WAM AD Ports Group, the leading global driver of trade and logistics, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the General Company for Ports of Iraq (GCPI) to promote increased cooperation between the two organisations within the fields of transportation and maritime. Facilitated during a visit of a high-level delegation led by the Iraqi Minister of Transportation, ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Emirates Development Bank (EDB), a key financial enabler of the country’s economic diversification and industrial transformation agenda, is launching the EDB Business Banking app in partnership with YAP, a leading UAE-based fintech, to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating in the UAE. The launch of the app is integral to EDB’s new strategy unveiled ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Deyaar Development PJSC (Deyaar), one of Dubai’s leading property developers and real estate service providers, announced the appointment of Gulf Asia Contracting, the construction vertical of RP Group, as a main contractor to build Regalia – a skyscraper in Business Bay offering a smart, high-end urban lifestyle embodied by royalty and distinction. A groundbreaking ceremony held ...