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  Dubai / EMIRATES BUSINESS Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) on Tuesday welcomed a delegation of 290 travel agents from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, visiting the emirate to attend the DER Touristik Campus Live Event, an incentive and training gathering that presents new travel programmes to agents from German-speaking markets. The event takes place from December ...

  ABU DHABI / EMIRATES BUSINESS The driverless Masdar Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system at carbon neutral Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, functioned at over 99% efficiency since it began services 6 years ago. The remarkable achievement is indicative of the system’s quality technology, dynamic safety features and robustness resulting in almost no failures or delays, zero collisions & accidents since ...

  Manama / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, received British Prime Minister Theresa May, in Manama, Bahrain. HH Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, and HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM ‘Transformations: The Emirati National House’, the exhibition presented by the National Pavilion United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia (Venice Biennale), has closed after a successful 6-month showing in Venice. The 2016 edition of the Venice Biennale brought together 63 National Pavilions from around the world and was ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) hosted Annual Business Excellence Awards to honour employees for innovative ideas and contribution to achieving new benchmarks in quality and excellence. As part of the event, 120 employees were honoured for initiatives that enhanced operational and business efficiency, improved health & safety standards, and enhanced employee morale. Award categories included ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi-based Sawab Centre, a joint UAE-US initiative to combat Daesh’s online propaganda and promote positive alternatives to extremism, on Tuesday announced the launch of a social media campaign to celebrate the shared heritage as well as the unique characteristics of countries of the Arab world. The three-day campaign will be conducted in Arabic on ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Organisations, countries, and established networks across the Middle East must work together to protect cultural heritage during armed conflicts, according to a leading member of the International Centre for the Study of Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM). Zaki Aslan, Director of ICCROM-ATHAR Regional Conservation Centre in Sharjah, said the preservation of heritage sites requires ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business The Dubai Airport FreeZone Authority (DAFZA) confirmed its intention to explore new opportunities for enhancing economic, commercial and investment ties with Germany investors. This falls under an ambitious marketing plan aimed at introducing the competitive advantages of the Freezone to the global business community and attracting direct foreign investments to further push national economic development ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE Ministry of Community Development has launched ‘Masarrah’, a community card for Emirati citizens 60 years old and above, which offers them a variety of services and exclusive privileges. Masarrah – meaning ‘happiness’ in Arabic – has been issued in co-operation with several federal and local government entities as well as private sector agencies to ...

  DUBAI / WAM Dubai-based charity organisation, Dar Al Ber Society (DABS) carried out twelve thousand four hundred charitable, humanitarian and developmental projects in the first nine months of 2016. Among them, 3,629 projects were completed in the first quarter, 4,873 in the second, and 3,502 in the third quarter, benefitting thousands of people, according to a top official. Abdullah Ali ...