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  Dubai / WAM Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director-General of Dubai Municipality, has revealed that the municipality has allocated AED7 billion in this year’s budget for executing infrastructure development and new large-sized high-priority projects and services in the field of health and environment. “The lion’s share of the volume of expenditure in the budget will be received by the storm water tunnel ...

  Sharjah / WAM Expo Centre Sharjah announced that the number of exhibitors participating in the 13th SteelFab Middle East 2017 Exhibition, the leading annual event in the steel and iron industry, has surpassed 317 coming from 28 countries. SteelFab 2017 is organised and hosted by Expo Centre Sharjah with the support of Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI). The ...

  Dubai / WAM Expo 2020 Dubai will unveil details about its strategy for a cleaner, greener world and its centrepiece Sustainability Pavilion at the forthcoming Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW). The fifth annual ADSW, running from January 12-21, also hosts the World Future Energy Summit, and will focus on identifying and discussing solutions to the world’s energy and sustainability ...

  DUBAI / WAM Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) saw its network of members grow by 9 percent or 16,800 companies in 2016, bringing the organisation’s total membership to 201,000 by the end of the year. The rise in number strengthens its position as one of the largest membership-based chambers of commerce in the world. The total value ...

  Dubai / WAM Integrated facilities management (FM) company, Imdaad, has generated a revenue of $136m (AED500m) in 2016, registering a growth of eight to 10 per cent compared to the previous year. The Dubai-based company also signed a few major contracts with leading companies in the last quarter of 2016, enabling it to generate more business than the previous fiscal ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business New York University Abu Dhabi’s (NYUAD) annual January Term (J-Term) is a unique study program that aims to intensify students’ intellectual focus and reach beyond the classroom. The program incorporates experiential learning, connecting students to the UAE, the Middle East and a range of global destinations. With a focus on exploring and interacting with ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business The Sustainable City – the first Net Zero Energy city in Dubai and Middle East’s first operational sustainable community – readies itself for the 10th edition of the World Future Energy Summit 2017 (WFES) for the second consecutive year. The summit will be held in at the ADNEC in Abu Dhabi from January, 16-19. The ...

  Sharjah / Emirates Business The first ever three-week long Winter Festival at Al Majaz Waterfront in Sharjah recently drew curtains after providing thirty thousand visitors from all nationalities and age groups across the seven emirates with the unending frolic of a dreamy winter wonderland. Guests were left in awe of a snowy festive landscape, which stretched across the Waterfront’s ...

  Bloomberg Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration will probably have to prepare India’s $300 billion budget in the dark. With less than a month to go before the annual presentation, his Statistics Office has refused to estimate the impact of Modi’s unprecedented cash clampdown on gross domestic product. All it said on Friday was that growth will slow to a ...

    Bloomberg Volvo Car Group, owned by a Chinese billionaire since 2010, plans to export half of a new South Carolina factory’s output to Asia and Europe. The company plans to build 60,000 S60 sedans in Charleston initially then expand to 100,000, Hakan Samuelsson, Volvo Cars’ chief executive officer, said at a dinner at the North American International Auto ...