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Emirates Business RAK Ceramics PSC, one of the world’s largest hi-tech manufacturers of lifestyle ceramics solutions, has awarded Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), a leading provider of next-generation technology solutions and services, with an exclusive contract to provide Systems Applications Programs (SAP) process transformation and support work over the next three years. This strategic initiative, which will be driven from CSC’s ...

Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business The new G-Shock and camouflage design, Casio GA-100MM marks its arrival in the Middle East. The new Casio watch is now available across all Casio points of sale in the UAE. Tsuneo Nagai, Managing Director, Casio Middle East told Emirates Business, “The striking good looks and innate toughness that is built into the GA-100MMNA is ...

Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business La Galerie Nationale’s French owner Guillaume Cuiry organised an Art Preview titled ‘Face to Face’ for the art aficionados in Dubai. While talking about the exhibition, Guillaume Cuiry said, “‘Face to Face’ is exciting and is a personal journey for all visitors. This exhibition would offer a glimpse of the artworks made by the five ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Etisalat’s participation at the SMEWorld Summit 2016 shed light on how small and medium businesses (SMB) outliers are disrupting established business models world over. As Strategic SME partner of the region’s largest entrepreneurship summit in its third year, the telco discussed the importance of game changing innovations and other factors that hold the key to success ...

Emirates Business Several of the world’s most iconic landmarks again went green to celebrate Ireland’s National Day as part of Tourism Ireland’s seventh annual Global Greening initiative. For the first time in the United Arab Emirates, new greenings included Yas Viceroy, Yas Island Abu Dhabi and Global Village in Dubai. They both joined old favourite Burj Al Arab Jumeirah and ...

WELLINGTON / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, has met Todd McClay, Minister of Trade of New Zealand, in the New Zealand capital, Wellington. During the meeting, they discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in key sectors between both countries, especially in the fields of agriculture and food security, and several ...

WELLINGTON / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, met Gerry Brownlee, New Zealand Defence Minister, in the country’s capital, Wellington. During the meeting, the two sides reviewed cooperation relations between the UAE and Australia, especially in the defence and military sectors, and ways of enhancing them. HH Sheikh Abdullah bin ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, is one of the signatories to the Declaration of the United for Wildlife International Taskforce on the Transportation of Illegal Wildlife Products signed at Buckingham Palace yesterday. Led by HRH The Duke of Cambridge, the United for Wildlife initiative aims to support efforts to prevent the ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Health professionals from the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) discussed the importance of sports nutrition and rehabilitation during the DHA’s bi-weekly smart clinic. They discussed the common health fads and some of their ill-effects on health. Nisreen Abu Ghoush, clinical dietician at Rashid Hospital, said: “The first thing I would like to highlight is that an all ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The 18th Microcredit Summit Campaign concluded in the capital under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council. Organised jointly by Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development, the Arab Gulf Programme for Development (AGFUND), and the Microcredit Summit Campaign, the summit gathered 1,000 global policy makers, central ...