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Abu Dhabi / WAM The ‘EU-UAE: Sheikh Zayed & Europe’ exhibition will tour Europe, introducing European youth to Sheikh Zayed and his lasting legacy, the exhibition curator has said. “One of the main reasons behind holding this exhibition is to introduce the EU to the new generation of Emiratis,” said Rym Tina Ghazal to the Emirates News Agency (WAM). “It ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE Government’s Annual Meetings will kick-off on Tuesday in Abu Dhabi. The second national meeting of its kinds, will be co-chaired by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi ...

Dubai / WAM Emirates National Oil Company (Enoc) has won the 2018 Golden Peacock Global Award for Sustainability (GPGAS), for the second consecutive year in the global institutional award category, in recognition of its efforts towards raising sustainability standards within the Group. Saif Humaid Al Falasi, Group CEO, Enoc, remarked: “It is a great honour to be recognised by the ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), and Siemens International signed a Memorandum of Understating (MoU), to support the health sector in Yemen. The signing of the MoU is part of the ERC’s strategy to promote its humanitarian partnerships around the world and attract the attention of large companies and institutions to humanitarian issues that concern people, as ...

Sharjah / WAM The remarkable and historical story of Wadi Al Helo – one of Sharjah’s Unesco World Heritage-nominated cultural heritage sites – is being told using a unique Virtual Reality, VR, application developed by the management office of ‘Sharjah: The Gateway to Trucial States’ (SGTS), and the American University of Sharjah (AUS), in an effort to highlight Sharjah’s important role ...

Bloomberg Plans in Australia to import gas to ease a supply squeeze may fail to bring down domestic prices as it pits the nation against some of the world’s biggest buyers for supplies. Australia finds itself in the odd position of having to consider four projects to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) while simultaneously being on track to become the ...

Bloomberg President-elect Jair Bolsonaro is pursuing the sale of Brazil’s deep-sea treasure-trove of oil, but just weeks after his election he’s facing the same political obstacles as his two predecessors. While Bolsonaro’s transition team argues the sale could net some $30 billion to help plug fiscal deficits, a squabble over how to divvy up the spoils between various states and ...

Bloomberg An influential panel of lawmakers in UK parliament is encouraging the government to develop hydrogen as a way to provide a green form of heat for industry and homes. The Committee on Climate Change, which advises the government on energy and environmental policies, said ministers should write a strategy for removing carbon emissions from heat in the next three ...

Bloomberg Oil rose from its lowest settlement in more than a year in New York. Futures added 1.7 percent, after slumping 7.7 percent. Saudi Arabia is pumping as much as 11.2 million barrels of crude a day, the most since the kingdom extracted its first oil eight decades ago, according to a person familiar with the matter. Theb West Texas ...

Bloomberg Justin Trudeau’s federal budget update stirred some anger in Canada’s oil-rich West. Alberta’s Finance Minister Joe Ceci, while welcoming corporate tax breaks announced, said he was disappointed that the urgent need to ease a dramatic crude-shipping glut and price crash wasn’t addressed. The tax changes that will allow businesses to write off capital investments more quickly will help oil ...