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  Dubai / WAM Emirates’ specially emblazoned football club aircraft recently took to the skies in seven, carefully coordinated take-offs in the course of a few hours in one day, showing the airline’s unwavering support for its football club partners with the season drawing to a close. The club themed aircraft celebrated Emirates’ football partnerships that touch over 1.5 billion people ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Sumansa Exhibitions’ flagship event, Indian Property Show, the biggest Indian realty exhibition in Dubai opened its 18th edition on Thursday at Za’abeel Hall 5, Dubai World Trade Centre. Showcasing 150 real estate developers, over 40,000 properties and more than 500 projects, the participating companies are offering attractive deals, discounts and plethora of wide-ranging properties to ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) announced that DEWA will launch Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) projects that will generate 1,000MW by 2030, to carry out the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler ...

  Dubai / WAM The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) witnessed a strong upswing across its precious metals, hydrocarbon and equities segments trading during May. The exchange recorded an aggregate of 1.5 million contracts in May, growing 55 percent from last year, while Year-to-Date (YTD) volumes saw an increase of 47 percent from last year, trading over 7.7 million contracts so ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MCCE) held a workshop to prepare a national plan for the protection of sharks. The workshop is part of a larger national strategy that aims to protect biodiversity and achieve the objectives related to developing and implementing programs that sustainably manage endangered marine resources. Attendees discussed the proposed goals, ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Three of the maritime industry’s most respected global professional bodies have announced their commitment to September’s Maritime Academic Conference and Expo in Dubai, demonstrating the priority they are giving to regional education and training needs. The Nautical Institute, the Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology and the Royal Institution of Naval Architects have confirmed ...

  Dubai / WAM Emirates SkyCargo is strengthening its footprint in the Far East and Indian Subcontinent with the launch of a new weekly freighter service from Hong Kong to Dubai via Delhi. The weekly service, which began on Wednesday, will tap the increasing cargo movements between Hong Kong, the world’s top cargo hub, and Delhi, India’s busiest cargo hub. Some ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business The Ministry of Health and Prevention has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to improve diabetes awareness and care for patients in the UAE with Sanofi. The announcement is an initiative aimed at improving physicians and nurses’ capabilities in providing standardized treatment for diabetes patients, and enhancing prevention and awareness among healthy individuals in society ...

  Bloomberg The world’s food-import bill is set to tumble to a seven-year low in 2016 as a decline in grain prices and lower freight rates more than compensate for increased imports, according to the United Nations. Countries around the globe will probably spend $986 million importing food this year, the first drop below $1 trillion since 2009, the UN’s ...

  Bloomberg Brazil’s industrial output unexpectedly rose in April, adding to indications that Latin America’s largest economy is close to hitting bottom. Production rose 0.1 percent in April after a 1.4 percent jump in March, the national statistics agency said on Thursday in Rio de Janeiro. That surprised all but one of the 37 economists surveyed by Bloomberg, whose median ...