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ABU DHABI / WAM Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and Group CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), was honoured on Monday with the “International Lifetime Achievement Award” for his outstanding contribution to the global energy industry. The award was presented to him by Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, at the Petrotech energy ...

Abu Dhabi / wam Department of Economic Development Abu Dhabi (Added), is currently preparing a study to regulate and develop licencing mechanisms for food-vending mobile vans (Food Trucks) under “Tajer Abu Dhabi License”. The study represents one of the initiatives in support of the Abu Dhabi economy package aiming to facilitate doing businesses and supporting the private sector. The study is ...

abu dhabi / WAM The Registration Authority of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), and the Casablanca Finance City Authority (CFCA), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), to foster closer collaboration among the UAE, Morocco and Africa and jointly promote the development of financial services in the respective markets. The MoU was signed by Dhaher bin Dhaher Al Mheiri, CEO of ...

KARACHI / WAM The “HH Sheikha Fatima Global Humanitarian Campaign” began in Kathor, Las Bela, Balochistan, Pakistan. The campaign aims to treat children, women and elderly people, under the slogan, “We are all Mother Fatima,” as the first specialist initiative of its kind that will provide the best diagnostic, treatment, preventive and surgical services to poor people, under the supervision ...

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, received on Monday at Al Bahr Palace, Maria Fernanda Espinosa, President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), at Al Bahr Palace, on Monday. Espinosa is currently visiting the UAE to take part in ...

DUBAI / wam The Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), described the UAE economy as “exemplary for emerging economies.” “I am very impressed by the economic diversification efforts made by the UAE and the new and innovative ways adopted by the country to accelerate new and innovative ideas, as well as increase and diversify foreign ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), the leading national entity for international development aid, is supporting the seventh edition of the World Government Summit (WGS 2019), as a strategic partner, and participating in several crucial sessions and meetings. At WGS 2019, the fund was recognised by the Global Council for Sustainable Development Goals for its efforts ...

Bloomberg Drax Group Plc has started capturing carbon dioxide at its Yorkshire power plant for the first time in a pilot project to develop the technology. The six-month bioenergy carbon capture and storage test aims to suck up a ton of carbon dioxide a day at its biomass plant, with technology that isolates the pollutant from flue gases released when ...

Bloomberg The downward pressure on China’s consumption persisted over the Lunar New Year holiday, the annual festival when people travel, shop, and give gifts or money. People in China spent 1.01 trillion yuan ($149 billion) at restaurants, shopping malls and online outlets over the week-long holiday, according to the Ministry of Commerce. That was 8.5 percent higher than during last ...

Bloomberg Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan pledged to carry out deep structural reforms of an economy that’s staring at a balance-of-payment crisis, after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) offered to avert it. There was a convergence of views on structural reforms in a meeting with Managing Director Christine Lagarde in Dubai on February 10, Khan said in a twitter post. Pakistan ...