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Dubai / WAM Dubai-based airline, flydubai, on Wednesday celebrated its inaugural flight to Yangon, Myanmar, expanding its network to include Southeast Asia, with the new daily flights being codeshared with Emirates and operating from Terminal 3 at the Dubai International Airport, DXB. Onboard the inaugural flight was a senior delegation led by Sudhir Sreedharan, Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations (UAE, ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business The Human Resources Development Committee in the banking and financial sector adopted the Emiratisation points system in the banking and insurance sectors with the aim of raising Emiratisation targets through creating more than 8,000 jobs for citizens in the two sectors mentioned during the next three years, in implementation of the Emiratisation Decision package recently approved ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business As part of its efforts to keep abreast with latest trends and technologies, Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) has adopted HireVue – a new technology solution that employs artificial intelligence to enhance the process of hiring talents, making the foundation the first government entity in the UAE to embrace advanced technology within human resources management. Azzah Al ...

Geneva / WAM Obaid Salem Al Zaabi, UAE Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, stressed that UAE has always been an active partner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) due to its belief in the latter’s mission and the duties it performs with devotion. In his speech at the UNHCR Pledging Conference 2019, Al Zaabi confirmed UAE’s ...

DUBAI / WAM The World Aviation Safety Summit, which took place in Dubai, displayed new artificial intelligence (AI), technologies, that will help improve safety in the aviation sector. In a session on how new technology can reduce incidents, experts from dnata displayed on stage the ‘Oscar bot’, an Alexa-style solution that can help safety specialists report incidents more efficiently and ...

SHARJAH / WAM HH Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, on Wednesday inaugurated the 22nd edition of Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival, under the theme, ‘Prospect’ organised by the Cultural Affairs Department at the Sharjah Department of Culture, at the Sharjah Art Museum. The Ruler of Sharjah toured the 31 exhibitions held in ...

Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, attended on Wednesday the graduation of the second batch of the Mohammad bin Rashid Centre for Leadership Development’s Impactful Leaders Programme. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid said that investing in people will always reap dividends. “Our objective is to ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance, stated that the diversity and pluralism of the Emirati community represent the true state of its richness that everyone is proud of, noting that the UAE has adopted a tolerant approach in its development drive He explained that tolerance and human fraternity are priorities of the UAE’s ...

Seoul / WAM The UAE and Korea have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, launching the official UAE-Korea Dialogue for 2020, in the presence of Noura bint Mohammed Al Kaabi, Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, and Park Yang-woo, Korean Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Marking the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two nations, the UAE-Korea Cultural ...

Bloomberg China is in preliminary talks to support the European Union’s (EU) backup plan for settling international trade disputes as president Donald Trump’s administration gets closer to scuttling the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) role in refereeing cross-border commerce. China’s Ambassador to the WTO Zhang Xiangchen told Bloomberg News that Beijing is actively working to support the EU’s vision of an ...