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ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi General Services Company (Musanada) has revealed that 89 percent of the AED4.4 billion New Al Ain Hospital —a project with a total built-up area of 347,000 square metres being executed in collaboration with Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (Seha) is now complete. Assuring that work is progressing in the project as planned in line ...

AL AIN / WAM Emirati women have their eyes on the sky as career-driven leaders in sectors vital to the UAE’s future and prosperity. Samira Saeed Al Zaidi and Iman Mohammed Al Mulla are two such women. As team members of Strata — an Al Ain-based plane parts manufacturer — they spoke to the Emirates News Agency (WAM) highlighting their ...

DUBAI / WAM Eight new schools are to open in Dubai by September 2020. The Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) in a press statement revealed that over 13,000 new seats will be made available, providing parents with more education choices for their children. Mohammed Darwish, CEO of Permits and Compliance sector at KHDA, said, “The opening of eight new ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Dubai Business Events (DBE), the city’s official convention bureau, has signed six memoranda of understanding (MoUs) so far in 2019, ensuring collaborative partnerships with a wide range of institutions, organisations and government entities, and setting a roadmap to attract more business events to the city. These MoUs will further strengthen DBE’s Al Safeer Congress Ambassador Programme, ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business The Abu Dhabi Department of Energy (DoE), host sponsor of the upcoming 24th World Energy Congress, revealed its plans for the event, taking place in the UAE capital on September 9-12, under the theme ‘Energy for Prosperity’. The 2019 edition of the Congress, which was laun-ched 95 years ago, marks the first time the event ...

DUBAI / WAM HH Sheikha Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum, the wife of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, stated that Emirati women were and will remain partners in the country’s development process, in light of the support of the UAE’s leadership. She also ...

VATICAN CITY / WAM His Holiness Pope Francis of the Catholic Church welcomed the UAE’s committee which aims to spread the principles of tolerance and cooperation. He also thanked the UAE “for the concrete commitment shown on behalf of human fraternity”. Pope Francis and His Eminence the Grand Imam of Al Azhar, Dr Ahmed el-Tayyeb, signed the Document on Human ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE Central Bank has announced that gross bank assets, including bankers’ acceptances, rose by 0.6 percent, climbing from AED2958.6 billion at the end of June 2019 to AED2975.8 billion at the end of July 2019. Gross credit increased by 0.7 percent from AED1692.7 billion at the end of June 2019 to AED1704.9 billion at the ...

Bloomberg Japan signaled it wanted to lay to rest the threat of new auto tariffs before agreeing to a final trade deal with US President Donald Trump, after he left the door open for slapping levies on the nearly $50 billion sector. Trump said he was not considering imposing punitive duties “at this moment,” after he and Prime Minister Shinzo ...

Bloomberg Indonesia has a raft of stimulus options available to bolster Southeast Asia’s biggest economy if global conditions worsen, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said. The government is prepared to boost spending and “re-activate” measures used during the global financial crisis if domestic growth needs a boost, Indrawati said on Tuesday in an interview in Jakarta. The administration could both ...