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  Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Ports, one of nine organisations to offer certified courses by the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation & Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) worldwide, conducted the IALA Aids to Navigation (AtoN) Level-2 training course to the first group of external trainees from entities that provide maritime and offshore services in the UAE. The training course ...

  Dubai / WAM The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) announced that Hatta Hospital received international accreditation from the Joint Commission International (JCI) on Thursday. Hatta Hospital now joins a list of DHA facilities that received the accreditation, which include 10 Primary Health Care Centers; Nad Al Hamar, Al Badaa, Al Barsha, Al Khawaneej, Al Safa, Al Twar, Al Mizhar, Al Mankhool, ...

  Dubai / WAM The Sharjah’s overall population is 1,405,843 people, according to results of the Sharjah Census 2015. “There are 175,432 Emirati nationals – 86,325 males and 89,098 females – who constitute 12 percent of the overall population. The number of non-national residents is 1,230,417, – 834,542 males and 395,875 females – who form 87 percent of the overall population, ...

  Dubai / WAM Ohood bint Khalfan Al Roumi, Minister of State for Happiness, has urged the private sector to launch humanitarian initiatives to improve the public’s access to medical services, lauding Thumbay Group’s Happiness Hour initiative. The programme will see the group offer free medical consultations for patients in their hospitals and clinics across the UAE for one hour every ...

Dubai / WAM The Department of Economic Development (DED) in Dubai has fined 25 shops in the emirate on a single day for engaging in unauthorised activities and illegal money transactions. The shops were found to have enticed Bangladeshi expatriates with the offer of cheaper money transfers to their home country with the help of an app called ‘Bkash.’ “DED acted ...

  Dubai / WAM Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced the completion of 30 percent of the first contract for the improvement of Airport Street involving the construction of Rashidiya and Casablanca interchanges. The completion rate has reached 25 percent in other contract covering Nad Al Hamar and ...

  Bloomberg The push to bring self-driving cars to American roads got a significant boost when the nation’s chief auto safety regulator essentially cleared Tesla Motors Inc.’s Autopilot system of fault in a fatal 2016 crash. The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that the owner of a Tesla Motors Inc. Model S sedan that drove itself into the ...

  Bloomberg Canada will consider pursuing a new multilateral Pacific Rim trade deal now that President Donald Trump has signaled the US is abandoning the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said in an interview shortly before Trump’s inauguration Canada would consider all its options with fellow TPP states, including whether a new deal can be salvaged without US participation. ...

  SAN FRANCISCO / AP Originally cast in a starring role, Netflix’s original DVD-by-mail service has been reduced to a bit player — one that may eventually get killed off as the company focuses on its booming video streaming service. Netflix’s fourth-quarter earnings report released Wednesday provided the latest glimpse at the DVD service’s descent into oblivion as the streaming ...

  Bloomberg The UK economy looks to have finished 2016 on a high. That’s according to the latest Bloomberg News survey of economists, which predicts 0.5 percent growth in the fourth quarter. That would follow expansion of 0.6 percent in both the third and second quarters. The Office for National Statistics will publish the data on Jan. 26 in London. ...