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Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chief of the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince’s Court, on Monday inaugurated the Microcredit Summit, which is being held under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Chairman of Abu Dhabi Executive Council. Organised jointly by Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development, the Arab Gulf Programme for ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The Crisis and Emergency Management Conference (CEMC) 2016 – Fifth Edition held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, National Security Advisor, and organised by the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority (NCEMA), concluded on Monday at St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort – Abu Dhabi. The two-day event titled ...

Dubai / Emirates Business UAE banks can now acquire their UnionPay cards locally as a leading global provider of payment services has certified its card manufacturing and card personalization sites in the UAE. UnionPay International will now produce its cards locally and banks in the UAE will no longer need to import UnionPay cards from outside the region. Currently over ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The world’s largest passenger aircraft comes to Austria on July 1, as Emirates announces that it will operate one of its two scheduled daily flights into Vienna International Airport with its iconic A380 aircraft. The airline, which has carried almost three million passengers on the Dubai-Vienna route since it was launched on 1st May 2004, will ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Senior officials from the UAE’s Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) have participated in a meeting to gain the benefits of sharing international experience in nuclear regulation with several thousand representatives of the nuclear energy industry. The 28th annual Regulatory Information Conference, RIC, was hosted by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NRC, from March 8-10 in ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE has put a strong focus on ensuring that the country is well prepared for any emergency or crisis that may occur, government officials said at the Crisis and Emergency Management Conference held in the capital on Sunday. Organised by the National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority (NCEMA), the two-day event is aimed at ...

DUBAI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has received Houlin Zhao, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) based in Geneva. During the meeting, which was held in the presence of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, and ...

DUBAI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has received Dr. Irina Bokova, Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, and HH Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al ...

Dubai / Emirates Business H3 Secure on Monday announced it has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Blancco Technology Group to sell its data erasure and mobile diagnostics solutions to enterprise organizations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Through this agreement, H3 Secure will primarily target businesses in telecommunications, retail, finance, healthcare, utilities and government. “The digital ecosystem ...

SHARJAH / WAM Following the conclusion of its Annual General Meeting (AGM), the Board of Directors of Air Arabia has announced that the assembly has approved the distribution of a 9 percent cash dividend of the company’s share capital for the year 2015. During the meeting, the General Assembly approved the auditor’s report for the financial year ending on the ...