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Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The UAE Organising Committee of the 24th World Energy Congress and the Federal Electricity and Water Authority (Fewa) have agreed on a partnership for Fewa to become a co-host sponsor of the Congress, which will be hosted by the UAE Government and will take place in Abu Dhabi in 2019. Under the patronage of His ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Breakbulk Middle East will be held for the first time in Dubai in from February 11-12, 2019 at the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), one of the most prestigious venues in the Middle East, and easily accessible from across the region and around the world. Breakbulk Middle East is one of the leading events that, and ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Executive Committee of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council has revealed the details of 10 initiatives, as part of the society pillar of the Abu Dhabi Development Accelerator Programme ‘Ghadan 21’. These initiatives fall under three key verticals, namely, education and employment, housing and communities, and social support. Building on its continuous efforts to spur job ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, is leading a 107-member delegation of the UAE to the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 73). Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed will address the General Assembly on September 29. The regular session, opened by Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces, President of the ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates on Sunday operated a special one-off A380 service to Riyadh in celebration of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s 88th National Day. Upon landing at 1550hrs at King Khalid International Airport, the aircraft was met with a ceremonial water cannon salute. The A380 one-off service, which operated as a full flight of 519 passengers, was proudly ...

Dubai / WAM The World Green Economy Summit (WGES 2018), is set to emphasise the role of young men and women in global efforts to build a green economy when it opens in Dubai, from October 24-25. Organisers of WGES made the announcement as the UAE joins the worldwide celebration of the United Nations’ International Youth Day, marked on August 12, ...

Bloomberg The debacle over Canada’s oil pipeline nationalisation and trade tensions with the US won’t affect the final investment decision on Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s C$40 billion ($31 billion) liquefied natural gas project, according to the head of the venture. Shell-led LNG Canada proposes to export as much as 26 million tons per year to Asia, making it potentially the ...

Bloomberg Neoen SA, the renewable energy project developer controlled by French billionaire Jacques Veyrat, plans to raise about $525 million in an initial public offerin. The company will use the proceeds to fund its plans to add capacity at its power plants, Paris-based Neoen said.

Bloomberg The smoking towers of the Port Talbot steelworks have dominated the South Wales skyline for more than a century. If they’re to continue to do so for decades to come, they’ll need to make more money. The past decade has seen some of the most traumatic years for the plant. Hurt by the global financial crisis and then by ...

Bloomberg Kumar Mangalam Birla, the billionaire chairman of the acquisitive Indian conglomerate that bears his name, said he’s hungry for more deals after creating the nation’s biggest mobile-phone operator. His Aditya Birla Group continues to look for targets in the US, Europe and India that make business sense and are likely to add value, the 51-year-old said at Bloomberg’s India ...