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  Abu Dhabi / WAM Individuals, organisations and schools in the United Arab Emirates have been urged to help transform the lives of millions of people by submitting and nominating entries for the 9th Zayed Future Energy Prize before the closing date on June 27. The prize is the UAE’s international awards for pioneers of renewable energy and sustainability. Submissions are ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business The second edition of the three-day long World Free Zones Organization’s Annual International Conference and Exhibition concluded on a high note, drawing the participation of over 680 experts from 60 countries. On the third day of the conference and exhibition, the members of the organization and its board of directors gathered for the closing general ...

  Islamabad / WAM The UAE Pakistan Assistance Programme (UAE PAP) has provided over 19.34 million doses of the polio vaccines for children in Pakistan during the months of March and April. The gesture is in implementation to the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan to provide humanitarian and development aid, support health sector and enhance ...

  Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business The beauty care industry being one of the most resilient industries has witnessed exponential growth globally. One of the fastest growing markets worldwide, Dubai is all set to open doors to the region’s biggest beauty care and products exhibition Beautyworld Middle East on May 15. It is expected that more than 1,500 exhibitors from ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) and Smart Dubai Office recently participated in the Study Group 5 meeting under the standardization sector of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The sessions were held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during the 11th Symposium on ICT, Environment and Climate Change hosted by Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission. Attended by more ...

  DUBAI / WAM Etihad Rail, the developer and operator of the UAE’s US$11 billion national rail network, hosted the 7th meeting of the GCC Railway Expert Working Group in a three-day event held in the UAE capital from May 10-12. The meeting brought together members of the Gulf Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC), railway ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM A team of Emirati women from the UAE Armed Forces has come home after climbing to Mount Everest base camp in the Khumbu valley, 5,364 metres above sea level in the Himalayas in Nepal. The team, which consisted of twelve climbers from the UAE Armed Forces, including nine female military climbers, two trainers and a ...

  Shanghai / AFP China’s key economic indicators moderated in April from the previous month, official figures showed on Saturday, raising worries over the strength of a rebound in the world’s second-largest economy. Industrial output rose 6.0 percent year-on-year in April, the National Bureau of Statistics said, down from a 6.8 percent jump in March. Economists had estimated a 6.5 ...

  Tokyo / AFP Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to postpone a sales tax hike a second time, judging that boosting the tariff could hurt the world’s third-largest economy, a newspaper said on Saturday. Abe has already informed senior government officials he plans delay the consumption tax hike, scheduled for next April; that would raise levy from eight to ...

  Jakarta / WAM Bank Indonesia reported the country’s current account deficit narrowed to US$4.7 billion or 2.1 percent of its gross domestic products (GDP) in the first quarter of this year from US$5.1 billion or 2.4 percent of the GDP in the previous three months period. The central bank attributed the improvement in current account performance to growing surplus ...