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ADEN / WAM The UAE has launched its Ramadan campaign in Yemen, which will include a package of charity and humanitarian initiatives that will benefit over 2.5 million people, including 1.5 million children and 500,000 women. The Director of UAE Humanitarian Operations in Yemen said that the campaign is the latest in a series of charity, humanitarian and development initiatives ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Investments has announced net profit of AED202 million in the first quarter of 2019, compared to AED362 million for the same period last year. Profit for the quarter ended March 31, 2018 included an overall gain of AED333 million on acquisition of stake in Emirates District Cooling, Emicool. Total assets increased to AED20.11 billion, compared to ...

DUBAI / WAM The United Arab Emirates has recorded a 53 percent increase in farm products reaching the market in the past six months. Data from the Emirates Authority for Standardisation and Metrology (Esma), showed a marked increase in the quantity of available farm produce and livestock between the last quarter of 2018 through April 2019. ”The area of organic ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai International (DXB), welcomed 22.2 million passengers in the first quarter of 2019, down 2.2 percent from the same period last year due largely to reduced flights and a shift in the timing of the Easter holiday. The first quarter of 2019 saw a total of 22,230,810 customers served. The average monthly passenger traffic volume of 7.41 ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, has said that the continuous development of the Armed Forces, in terms of armaments and training, remains a priority. The leadership firmly believes that UAE’s development must be safeguarded, and that a country capable ...

UMM AL QAIWAIN / WAM “In the history of our young country, we will remember with pride May 6, 1976, when the Founding Father, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and the Founding Fathers announced the unification of the UAE Armed Forces,” HH Sheikh Saud bin Rashid Al Mu’alla, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Umm Al Qaiwain, ...

Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has said that the UAE Armed Forces is at the very heart of the nation’s development march. In a statement to ‘Nation Shield’, the UAE’s military journal, marking the 43rd Anniversary of the UAE’s Armed Forces Unification Day, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi, DCT Abu Dhabi, is set to lead a delegation of a number of tourism stakeholders to ITB China, a new trade show taking place in Shanghai next month. The delegation, which will include representatives from tour operators, hotels, heritage and cultural attractions, and destination management companies, will ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Commanders and units of the UAE Armed Forces have celebrated the 43rd Unification Day Anniversary, recalling the memories of the founding fathers, notably the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who managed through their diligence and will to build the Union and to unify the Armed Forces under one command, one banner, and who had ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Lt. General Hamad Mohammed Thani Al Rumaithi, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, has said that the UAE Armed Forces are the cornerstone of the homeland’s security and its shield to stand against all those who wish to tamper with its security and capabilities. The Chief of Staff added that the country’s Armed Forces play ...