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ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi City Municipality has held a unique park awareness event in Mohammed bin Zayed City, concurrent with the opening of new parks. The event was held to showcase the municipal system’s vision and plans to broaden the scope of recreational facilities, add more green areas, and construct world-class parks to serve the community. The ...

Dubai / EMIRATES BUSINESS The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) held a smart clinic on Monday to discuss employee health initiatives. Badriya Al Harmi, community medicine specialist at DHA’s Al Barsha Health Centre said: “Employee health awareness and healthy initiatives helps reduce absenteeism, helps reduce the burden of non-communicable lifestyle diseases and helps reduce companies’ healthcare costs. Therefore employee health awareness ...

SHARJAH / EMIORATES BUSINESS Hamriyah Free Zone Authority (HFZA) team successfully participated in Make in India Week that concluded in Mumbai recently. The five-day event, the largest of its kind in India, which was opened by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, attracted government delegations from 49 nations and business teams from 68 countries. “With the plentiful resources that India has, ...

Alkesh Sharma / Emirates Business Ushering in an innovative technology — ‘aqua-agro’ — that could ensure constant supply of land nutrients even to the aquatic life, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences is looking forward to establish research ties with Emirates. A high-level delegation from the leading European varsity visited UAE and held talks with various educational and research institutes in ...

Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business The region has witnessed a growing demand of Infiniti QX80 which was introduced to the market over a year ago. The label’s full size SUV continues to deliver in spades for Infiniti. The car was originally launched in December 2014; the endorsement for the new model has been strong with Infiniti delivering 1,521 vehicles in ...

EMIRATES BUSINESS Ensuring a secure salary transfer system to the corporates in the UAE, UnionPay International has launched region’s first EMV prepaid salary cards. Through these cards, banks in the UAE can now offer workers secure and advanced payment services conforming to the country’s Wage Protection System (WPS), at economic costs. UnionPay International is a global provider of high quality, ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The much-awaited new addition of Ford Ranger, the compact Pickup, has finally hit the markets. It is now available at Al Tayer showrooms. Accoriding to Thierry Sabbagh, Managing Director at Ford Middle East, “The new Ford Ranger is a refined version of the earlier edition, and it has brought a new level of comfort. Without making ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business In collaboration with Etihad Airways’ award-winning loyalty program, Etihad Guest, members of Joyalukkas Golden Rewards program can now convert their loyalty points to Etihad Guest Miles. This is the first time in the Middle East that a jeweller is offering its members the loyalty benefit of converting their loyalty points to miles so they can ...

Bloomberg A deal between Saudi Arabia and Russia to freeze oil output failed to stem the biggest drop in bullish bets since July. The agreement reached on February 16 isn’t going to revive crude prices, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Iran said it supported the deal, without saying whether it would temper its own production. A ban on Iran’s ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The retail business segment of Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) plans to increase capacity by 40 per cent between 2016 and 2020 across its network of service stations in the UAE. The growth plans include ongoing renovation of two major service stations in Dubai Internet City and Oud Metha and the construction of 54 more stations ...