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Dubai / Emirates Business UAE residents are paying down debts and remitting money more regularly, as their perceptions of their financial wellbeing improve. That’s according to the Consumer Confidence Tracker Q1 2019 from yallacompare, the Middle East’s leading comparison site for financial products. During the first quarter of 2019, the Tracker polled more than 1000 UAE residents on the state ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Land Department (DLD), will start providing telecom services to its customers through Ejari application via connectivity with Etisalat, after signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with Emirates Telecommunication Group Company. The cooperation agreement regarding ‘Ejari’ system and the Real Estate Blockchain technology, comes in line with the parties’ keenness to implement smart government standards (paperless management, ...

ADEN / WAM The United Arab Emirates today launched an emergency response campaign to provide relief aid to people affected by heavy rains and floods that hit Aden and several other Yemeni cities. The field volunteer teams of the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), have arrived in the areas affected by the rains to evaluate the losses and to provide relief ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism) has signed a strategic partnership agreement with SEERA (previously Al Tayyar Travel Group), to further strengthen the travel demand from Saudi Arabia to Dubai. The partnership between the department and Almosafer, SEERA’S consumer travel brand which recorded more than 100,000 bookings from Saudi Arabian travellers to Dubai in ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Airports (DXB), on Monday announced its pledge to ban single-use plastics from consumer spaces at the world’s busiest international airport effective 1st January 2020. Every year Dubai Airports recycles over 43,000 tonnes of paper, glass, and other waste to limit its impact on the environment. Over the past six months alone, Dubai Airports collected and disposed ...

DUBAI / WAM Enoc Group has secured a five-year $690 million term loan from a Chinese consortium of banks as China’s biggest financial institutions endorse the Group’s operational and financial health. The term loan will finance general corporate purposes as Enoc continues to fuel the local economy through its business divisions in exploration and production, supply and operations, terminals, fuel ...

ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has conferred the Order of Independence, First Class, on the Moazzam Ahmad Khan, Ambassador of Pakistan to the UAE, in recognition of his efforts during his tenure, towards the development and strengthening of friendly relations and cooperation between the two countries across all fields. His Highness Sheikh ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE welcomes any efforts to defuse tension in the region and looks forward to see a calm, stable, developed and forward looking Middle East in the future, said HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Sheikh Abdullah made the remarks during a joint press conference with Heiko Maas, ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa), is organising the 21st Water, Energy, Technology, and Environment Exhibition (Wetex), which will be held from October 21-23, at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. The exhibition is held under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Minister of Finance and President of Dewa. For ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai FDI, the investment development agency of Dubai Economy, is set to embark on its latest investment mission to major cities in China as part of its strategic efforts to support the global infrastructure programme of the Belt and Road initiative. The agency will lead a delegation of government and business leaders to take part in the ...