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Dubai / Emirates Business The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry honoured 14 companies for their corporate social responsibility and sustainability efforts during a ceremony held at its premises today. The Dubai Chamber CSR Label was presented to Emirates Gas for the seventh time, Alpen Capital (ME) Limited for the sixth time, while Six Construct, and Union Cooperative earned the ...

Dubai / WAM The Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA) will highlight new global maritime innovation at the 2nd Dubai Maritime Agenda. Held under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, the event will open its doors in next month to explore major opportunities in the ...

Dubai / WAM The UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), will hold a Safety Campaign event in Dakar, Kenya, with the support of Pratt and Whitney Canada. The event, which will take place from December, 6-8 follows the success of the 4th Safety Campaign event in Kenya, which was supported and organised by the GCAA, and held at the Ole ...

New York / WAM Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al-Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, has launched the Mohammed bin Rashid Initiative for Global Prosperity at an interactive session on Innovation and Technology during the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Dr Al Zeyoudi said, “The Initiative for Global Prosperity is a gift from His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin ...

Dubai / WAM Emirates Green Building Council (EmiratesGBC), an independent forum aimed at conserving the environment by strengthening and promoting green building practices, will launch the UAE’s first ‘Nearly Zero Energy Buildings’ (nZEBs) Report, followed by a discussion on its key findings on September, 27, at the Dubai Chamber of Commerce. The event is supported by theDubai Chamber and is ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE on Sunday announced the first five projects under the $50 million UAE-Caribbean Renewable Energy Fund across Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The projects will significantly reduce energy costs in the region, as well as improve resilience to natural disasters, such as Hurricane Irma. Announced in January 2017, ...

Al Ain / WAM HH Sheikh Hazza bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, Under-Secretary of the Court of the Abu Dhabi Ruler’s Representative in the Al Ain Region, opened the ninth edition of the Al Ain Book Fair, which displays literature, poetry and history books by Emirati writers. The exhibition opened with a musical performance entitled, “Paradise of Zayed,” by a group ...

Bloomberg China slapped fresh sanctions on North Korea, curbing some oil product exports to the country, after US President Donald Trump ordered new sanctions this week. China halted the outbound shipment of condensate and liquefied natural gas to North Korea from Saturday, and will limit exports of refined oil products from Oct. 1, the Ministry of Commerce said in a ...

Bloomberg A ruling by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea will keep Tullow Oil Plc’s offshore fields under Ghana’s jurisdiction following the end of a boundary dispute with Ivory Coast. The Tweneboa, Enyenra and Ntomme fields, which hold an estimated 2 billion barrels of oil and 1.2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, will remain with the ...

MUMBAI / NEW DELHI / Reuters India’s Reliance Industries, operator of the world’s largest refining complex, is considering expanding its oil processing capacity by over 40 percent by 2030, according reports. Reliance may expand the capacity at its dual refinery complex in Jamnagar in the western Indian state of Gujarat by 30 million tonnes a year to 100 million tonnes ...