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  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Emirates Global Aluminium, the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside oil and gas, announced that its subsidiary Guinea Alumina Corporation (GAC) has awarded an engineering and programme management consultancy contract for its under-construction bauxite mine in the Republic of Guinea in West Africa to Fluor Corporation. The total value of contracts ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Economy is to lead a trade delegation to the UAE-Moldovan Business Forum, which is taking place on February 8 and 9, in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau. The UAE delegation will be headed by Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy, who will meet with Pavel Filip, Prime Minister of Moldova and ...

  Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Monday announced he will be leading a Q&A Session to examine the revival of the development process in the Arab World. The session will take place during the fifth edition of the World Government Summit (WGS) 2017. During ...

  Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) chaired the board of directors’ meeting. HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Deputy Chairman of ADFD, was also present. The board reviewed a ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union (GWU), Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation (FDF) and President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, has stressed the need to establish an effective mechanism to develop sustainable means of communication, while maintaining a safe internet environment. The changes that occurred in ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The ‘Year of Giving’ will provide opportunities to build strong long-term partnerships between the public and private sectors through various programmes and agreements, according to ministers and officials. They stated that government support for both sectors will promote the likelihood of success for private sector initiatives, as well as transform limited community programmes to more comprehensive ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE Board on Books for Young People (UAEBBY) begun series of biblio-therapy workshops to train a selection of those working in the field of children’s literature. The workshops, which will train participants in both theory and application, will pioneer the first team of capable biblio-therapists in the UAE. The course is being organised by the ...

  Sharjah / WAM Sharjah has been announced as region’s first candidate city for UNICEF’s ‘Child Friendly City’ initiative, which is aimed to guide cities and other systems of local governance in the inclusion of children’s rights as a key component of their goals, policies, programmes and structures. The announcement was made at a press conference in the presence of Sheikha ...

  Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, attended on Monday the official opening of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High Level Panel ‘HLP’ meeting on Women’s Economic Empowerment at the Four Seasons Resort, Dubai. Convening for the first time in MENA region, the High Level ...

  Dubai / WAM HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, UAE Minister of Finance and Chairman of Dubai Municipality, approved a AED35 million project for periodical maintenance of marine facilities and coastal protection for the next two years. Hussein Nasser Lootah, Director-General of Dubai Municipality, said that the approval comes as part of the special attention ...