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ABU DHABI/ WAM Mohammed Saif Al Suwaidi, Director-General of the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) and Chairman of the Exports Executive Committee of the Abu Dhabi Exports Office (ADEX), said the UAE has an advanced infrastructure that has strengthened its stature as an international centre for trade and helped attract foreign investments in various sectors. In his statements to ...

SHARJAH/ WAM Gulftainer, a leading regional ports and terminals operator, and a provider of supply chain and logistics solutions, announced that it has extended its concession agreements with the Sharjah Ports, Customs and Free Zones Authority for a further 35 years, which reinforces the shared mission to transforming UAE’s supply chain and logistics industry throughout the Northern Emirates’ key trade ...

ABU DHABI/ WAM Under the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, H.H. Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, has inaugurated the Al Wathba housing project, as part of the Emirati Neighbourhood initiative, providing 347 new homes to citizens at a ...

AL AIN/ WAM As part of the agenda of the Al Ain Book Festival (AABF) 2023, organised by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC) from 19 to 25 November at various cultural and heritage sites across Al Ain city, the Centre held a meeting with the publishers participating in the festival to highlight its efforts in supporting the UAE ...

ABU DHABI/WAM H.H. Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, has offered his condolences to Saqr Ghobash, Speaker of the Federal National Council, on the passing of his mother, at the Al Zahra mourning Majlis in Ras al Khaimah. H.H. also passed on his deepest sympathies ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Municipality has announced the launch of a robust safety campaign to enhance compliance with safety standards and create a safer working environment at construction sites across the emirate. The campaign also targets all engineers, consultants, supervisors, workers, and contracting and engineering consulting companies in Dubai. The campaign aims to safeguard individuals working at construction sites, reduce ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Fertiglobe, the strategic partnership between Adnoc and OCI Global, today announced that it has completed the first shipment of the world’s first internationally recognised renewable ammonia with ISCC Plus (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) certification. The renewable ammonia was produced at the company’s facilities in Egypt using renewable hydrogen from its pilot Egypt Green Hydrogen electrolyser ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Austria is a partner of the UAE as the host of COP28, the UN Climate Conference to be held in Dubai, to ensure an inclusive COP with ambitious results, Alexander Schallenberg, Federal Minister for European and International Affairs of the Republic of Austria, told the Emirates News Agency (WAM). “Austria will be represented at the highest ...

ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential Court, inaugurated the ADSCC Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy Congress 2023, organised by Abu Dhabi Stem Cells Centre (ADSCC), a subsidiary of PureHealth, in Abu Dhabi. The conference brought together a global community of experts to discuss ...

DUBAI / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP), in collaboration with the College of Nursing and Midwifery at Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, has organised a three-day workshop targeting participants in the National Mentorship Programme for Nursing and Midwifery Research. Hosted by MoHAP’s National Committee for Nursing and Midwifery in Dubai, the event aimed ...