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  Dubai / WAM The Hamdan Bin Mohammed Heritage Centre (HHC) will hold its third joint workshop with the United Nations Organisation for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, at the JW Marriott Marquis Hotel in Dubai, from April, 16-20. Similar to the past two joint workshops with the UNESCO, HHC seeks to move forth ...

  Dubai / WAM Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Executive Council HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum chaired on Thursday morning a meeting of the council at Emirates Tower, in the presence of Chairman of Dubai Civil Aviation and Chief Executive of Emirates Group H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum. The meeting reviewed various topics ...

  Sharjah / WAM Sharjah University received a delegation from Iraq’s University of Kurdistan Hewler (UKH), aiming to discuss mutual cooperation between the two universities in the areas of academic and students’ exchange. The delegation that included Dr Mohammed Mochtar, Vice Chancellor of UKH, and Karwan Akram Ezzat, Director of Engineering and Services Department in UKH, met with Dr. Salah Taher ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Culture and Arts Authority, Dubai Culture, has announced the latest edition of its ‘Live our Heritage Festival’, which will run under the theme ‘UAE Folk Arts’ from April, 14-18 at Mirdif City Centre. The final day of ‘Live our Heritage Festival’ will coincide with World Heritage Day, the annual event that is held on April 18. ...

  Dubai / WAM A delegation from the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) and the Dubai Future Foundation (DFF), reviewed the latest technology and research on driverless vehicles during a visit to the Carnegie Mellon University and Uber Company in the United States. The visit was part of efforts to develop the Dubai Driverless Transport Strategy Project. Ahmed Bahrozyan, CEO of ...

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump might withhold payments under Obamacare that are used to help poor people afford medical services in order to force Democrats to negotiate changes to the health law, he told the Wall Street Journal in an interview. Those payments to lower-income people, called cost-sharing-reduction subsidies, have been at the center of an almost three-year legal battle ...

  Bloomberg The battle for control of Akzo Nobel NV escalated after Elliott Advisors called for the chairman’s ouster, drawing a fiery retort from the Dutch paint maker suggesting the activist shareholder is working with PPG Industries Inc. on its $24 billion takeover offer. The removal of Chairman Antony Burgmans would be irresponsible and damaging, and Elliott’s move for a ...

  Bloomberg The view from the biggest coal plant in the US West is spectacular: red rock buttes and wide desert vistas that change color with the movement of the sun. Set against this backdrop, the station’s towering smoke stacks seem to disrupt the serenity of the landscape, its three concrete pillars spewing a perpetual stream of heat and gas. ...

  RAS AL KHAIMAH / Emirates Business Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority (RAKTDA), which develops the emirate’s tourism infrastructure and initiates its domestic and overseas promotions, conducted a media and trade roadshow in India this week to outline its 2017 strategy for the Indian market. Visitors from India to the emirate in Q1 2017 grew 35 percent, while the ...

  SHARJAH / Emirates Business Sharjah Business Women Council (SBWC) will hold two workshops that will offer participants a glimpse into the art of photography and videography, as well as table setting, and how women can turn those skills into a business. The first workshop, which will take place on April 16-18 between 10am to 2pm at the Sharjah Art ...