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Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Etisalat on Monday announced the revamp of its roaming packs for both prepaid and postpaid customers to give them flexibility and more affordable choices of tailored plans to stay connected with their family and friends while travelling outside the country. The new roaming packs will offer a worry free experience to customers traveling abroad in ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business The National Health Insurance Company – Daman will begin replacing cash payments with the e-Dirham service across all its branches and service points from January 2018. The move comes after six months of thorough testing and is part of Daman’s efforts to digitalise services and simplify customer transactions, making their experiences more efficient, secure and ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi University (ADU) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Arts, Sciences and Technology University in Lebanon (AUL) to offer exchange programs, training initiatives, as well as knowledge sharing platforms to students of both institutions. Dr Waqar Ahmad, Abu Dhabi University’s Interim Chancellor and Dr Adnan Hamza, Director of AUL, signed the three-year renewable ...

Dubai / WAM The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), organised an awareness workshop for examiners at vehicle technical testing centres to educate attendees about standards and procedures that have to be observed in this vital field. Mohammed Nabhan, Director of Monitoring and Enforcement, RTA Licensing Agency, said, “The workshop was held over two days in the presence of all parties ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Real Estate Institute (DREI), the educational arm of Dubai Land Department (DLD), organised the ‘Innovation in Real Estate Best Practices Event’ to coincide with the announcement of the second edition of the Gulf Real Estate Awards, which will take place in 2018. A select group of professionals from different segments of the real estate sector ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Dulsco, a regional leader in people and environmental solutions, has been recognized for its ‘Bulb Eater’ initiative at the 2017 Dubai Airport Safety Awards. The ‘Bulb Eater’, which won the ‘Best HSE project’ category at the ceremony, was developed in response to the large amount of used light bulbs that were being disposed of at Dubai ...

Bloomberg Japan’s liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) imports from the United States are expected to double in 2017 to a record and account for around half of its total purchases, government and shipping data showed. The surge comes as shale oil and gas output lifts overall US production. As with crude oil, the American exports displace LPG from the Middle East, ...

Bloomberg Iraq has given foreign energy companies a month to signal their interest in building a new export pipeline from the Kirkuk oilfields in the north of the country. The new pipeline will replace an old and severely damaged section of the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline. It will start from oilfields near Kirkuk and extend to the Fish-Khabur border area with Turkey. ...

MOSCOW / Reuters OPEC and Russia will exit from oil production cuts very smoothly, possibly extending the curbs in some form to avoid creating any new surplus in the market, the Russian energy minister told Reuters. Alexander Novak also said in comments cleared for publication that he saw no direct connection between the oil cuts and Saudi Arabia’s plan to ...

Bloomberg China can achieve a goal of doubling the size of its economy by 2020 even if annual expansion slows to 6.3 percent, according to a senior Communist Party official, signalling a greater willingness to tackle debt and pollution at the expense of growth. In its blueprint for 2016 to 2020, China set a minimum annual growth target of 6.5 ...