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Abu Dhabi / WAM NMC Healthcare on Monday unveiled the UAE’s largest private sector hospital, the US$200 million NMC Royal Hospital at Khalifa City in Abu Dhabi. The 75,000 sq.m. NMC Royal Hospital will be the first of its kind in the private sector, providing world-class emergency, critical and acute cardiovascular care. Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of ...

DUBAI / WAM The government’s policies, programmes and services should contribute towards building a positive and happy community, Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said. Sheikh Mohammed said the government’s main task is to ensure that conditions are conducive for delivering happiness to individuals, families and employees and promoting ...

ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, was personally at the site of a fire that broke out at dawn at Abu Dhabi Marina Yacht Club, to oversee the emergency procedures. No deaths were reported after the fire broke out in two boats and engulfed ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Sawab Centre, a joint online engagement initiative by the governments of the UAE and the US in support of the Global Coalition against Daesh, has launched a new social media campaign on the social networking sites Twitter and Instagram under the hashtag #HerAchievementsInspireMe. Coinciding with International Women’s Day, on March 8, the campaign aims to ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority’s (DEWA) has organised a training course on Social Return on Investment (SROI) as part of its commitment to training employees and raising their level of awareness about economic and social development, to achieve DEWA’s vision to become a sustainable innovative world-class utility. The course was organised in cooperation with the Institute of ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) held a smart clinic to discuss women’s health issues to mark International Women’s Day, which takes place every year on March 8. Doctors from Dubai Health Authority highlighted that although there have been massive advances in maternal health; the biggest challenge facing women of childbearing age in this region is obesity. ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Khaldoon Al Mubarak, Mubadala’s Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer, has said that despite prevailing economic challenges, the UAE will continue with its long term diversification plan, and will continue to think in terms of decades rather than months or years, describing the country as an “oasis of security in this region.” Speaking at the ...

Bloomberg Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders agreed that Michigan’s Republican governor should leave office over the Flint water crisis, but clashed over their stances on corporate bailouts and trade deals, with Clinton saying the American auto industry would have collapsed if Sanders had succeeded in blocking its rescue. Clinton said in Sunday’s CNN presidential debate that Michigan’s two senators ...

Bogota / AFP Colombian state-run oil concern Ecopetrol has reported losses of $1.23 billion (1.12 billion euros) in 2015, driven largely by low crude prices on the international market. Ecopetrol said in a statement that as a result of the losses it would not be handing out dividends to its shareholders. The company’s profits for 2015 “were affected principally by ...

Bloomberg Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s struggle for political survival is spilling into the streets, after the latest chapter in a sweeping corruption probe escalated tension in Latin America’s largest country. Following police questioning on Friday of Rousseff’s predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva into allegations of bribes for favors, friends and foes of the government have started to mobilize in ...