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DUBAI / WAM Inspired by the growth of digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI), in boosting the economy, the annual World Green Economy Summit (WGES 2018), will focus on developing the digital economy and integrating it with the green context. The summit is a strategic platform to share and exchange knowledge and bring to focus new technologies that drive the ...

Dubai / WAM The General Operations Administration of the Dubai Police and the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), have discussed the use of “Advanced Smart Phone Positioning Technology,” known as AML, which uses satellite technology, in operations rooms around the country. The technology, which was launched by the Dubai Police in March, can accurately identify the locations of those calling the ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Business Events (DBE), the city’s official convention bureau, has reported strong results for the first half of 2018, with 125 successful bids to host business events, reflecting a 29 percent increase over the same period last year. Conferences, meetings and incentive programmes secured in the first six months of the year, including from bids submitted in ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM July 30 is a significant day for women and children in the UAE, when the Founding Father, late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan issued a decree establishing the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood (SCMC), in 2003, HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union, President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM More than 80,000 people, including tourists and heritage lovers, visited the14th Liwa Date Festival, which came to an end in Al Gharbia, Abu Dhabi’s Western Region. The 11 day-event offered heritage lovers colourful activities, cultural celebrations, traditional performance and competitions, where a number farmers were rewarded for producing the best types of date through the season. ...

New Delhi / WAM India’s Minister for Commerce, Industry and Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu, has praised the UAE’s achievements, comparing them favourably with countries which have much more in diverse natural resources and population which could not, yet, achieve as much. Prabhu made these remarks at the launch of a global emerging technologies start-up competition, the “GovHack Series,” attended by ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Films created by participants in Image Nation Abu Dhabi’s flagship training programme Arab Film Studio have now screened over 200 times at prestigious film festivals around the globe, after Ranapakhara by Swapna Kurup was selected to screen at the Mosaic World Film Festival, Illinois this week. The milestone comes following the completion of the third edition ...

Bloomberg Europe will build more terminals to import US liquefied natural gas, the head of the European Commission told US President Donald Trump during a meeting aimed at averting a transatlantic trade war. “They want very much to do that, and we have plenty of it,” Trump said, referring to the US shale boom, which has unleashed record supplies of ...

Bloomberg Saudi Basic Industries Corp, the Middle East’s biggest petrochemicals producer, posted an 81 percent increase in second-quarter profit on higher sales prices and volumes. Net income rose to 6.7 billion riyals ($1.8 billion) from 3.71 billion riyals a year ago, the company known as Sabic said in a statement. Revenue climbed 26 percent to 43.3 billion riyals. The company ...

Bloomberg China’s expressed regret over Qualcomm Inc.’s decision to scrap a $44 billion takeover of NXP Semiconductors NV, an apparent attempt to avoid blame after regulators failed to rule on what would have been the largest chip acquisition in history. The takeover fell apart as tensions between China and the US escalated and local regulators held off on clearing the ...