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RIYADH / WAM Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi national flag carrier, Saudi Arabian Airlines, announced positive growth in traffic since their codeshare partnership began in November 2018. Jointly, Etihad and Saudia have flown over 16,000 guests across the partnership, solidifying the airlines’ commitment to growing inbound business and tourism in their respective markets. ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Emirates on Tuesday announced the launch of a second daily flight from Dubai (DXB) to London Stansted (STN) starting July 1. The additional flight means that Emirates customers will now have 11 daily flight options to and from three London airports. As with the first, the second daily flight to Stansted will also be operated by ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), the leading national entity for international development aid, extended a financial contribution to the talent centre at Dar Zayed for Family Care (DZFC), an organisation dedicated to the care of orphans. In line with the Fund’s 2019 corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda, the endowment seeks to support DZFC in ...

RED SEA COAST / WAM The UAE, represented by the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), implemented six water projects in six villages in Dhubab District on Yemen’s Red Sea Coast, adding to the number of villages benefitting from its new water projects, which now totals 12. The six water projects included the restoration of artesian wells in Al Watan, Al Jafer, ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Come October, anyone living in the UAE can lease and fly an electric aircraft, provided they receive proper training, as per the Academy of Technical Training (ATT), standards. Officials at the ATT told Emirates News Agency (WAM), that receiving a licence to fly the electric-driven aircraft is open to individuals as young as 14 years. The licence ...

Dubai / WAM The Business Registration and Licensing (BRL), sector of the Department of Economic Development (DED), Dubai, issued 2,204 new licences in February 2019, a growth of 37 percent compared to February 2018 (1,606). The new licences created 8,515 jobs in the labour market. Among the new licenses issued, 61.1 percent were commercial, 36.5 percent professional, 1.7 percent related to tourism ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His HHighness Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, praised the wise policy of the Abu Dhabi Government and its keenness to provide the best services, which will make everyone happy and continue the process of sustainable development. Following his inauguration of a new municipal centre in Khalifa City, ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai SME, the agency of the Department of Economic Development (DED), mandated to develop the small and medium enterprise (SME), sector, supported 4,227 Emirati entrepreneurs with incentives and facilities worth AED101 million ($27.5 million) in 2018. The number of entrepreneurs represents an increase of 32 percent over the previous year and the increase in the value of ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), announced the establishment of the ‘Zayed Centre of Excellence for Financial Research’, at the Higher Colleges of Technology – Abu Dhabi Women’s campus. The Centre’s main objectives includes collaborating with HCT on research related to finance including, but not limited to, finance-related data analytics, financial technology services, artificial intelligence, blockchain, ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM As part of the Abu Dhabi Government’s accelerator programme ‘Ghadan 21’, the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi, DCT Abu Dhabi, has announced strategic initiatives to further drive the development of the Emirate’s tourism sector. In line with the Ghadan 21 ambition, to make Abu Dhabi one of the best places in the world ...