ABU DHABI / WAM For the third consecutive year, Abu Dhabi ranked as the smartest city in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region for 2023, according to the IMD Smart City Index released by the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland in collaboration with the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). The International Institute for ...
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DUBAI / WAM Dubai Chamber is set to highlight the key role played by the emirate’s private sector worldwide and expand its global networks, bilateral trade, and business reach during the 13th World Chambers Congress (WCC) in Geneva, Switzerland, from June 21-23. As a diamond sponsor of the 13th WCC, which is held under the theme of “Achieving Peace and ...
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ABU DHABI / WAM Under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, His Highness Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, has inaugurated the expansion of Al Falah housing project, providing 899 new homes to citizens at a ...
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BERLIN / WAM In a speech at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin on Tuesday, Dr Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and COP28 President-Designate, presented his broad ambitions for COP28, which covered a call for transformative action and strong outcomes across the mitigation work programme, the global goal on adaptation and doubling adaptation finance, ...
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ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE, through the Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation and the Emirates Red Crescent Authority, sent a plane carrying urgent food supplies to Abeche Airport on the Sudanese-Chadian border on Tuesday. The aid will urgently support Sudanese refugees affected by the current situation in the Republic of Sudan, which has led to the displacement of ...
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RAS AL KHAIMAH / WAM Archaeologists in Ras Al Khaimah have partnered with two United States universities to analyse 4,000-year-old human remains to see if a dramatic climate event at that time can help inform how humans’ biology would be affected by a similar event in the future. A professor and student team of bio-anthropologists from Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, US, ...
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DUBAI / WAM Emirates Gas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Enoc Group, announced the introduction of new LPG cylinder seals in partnership with Emarat. LPG cylinders supplied in the emirate of Dubai will now have a new shrink-wrapped identification seal on their valves in unique colours which are pink for Emirates Gas and violet for Emarat. The PVC seal is ...
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ABU DHABI / WAM Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence and Chairman of the Emirates Cricket Board, and Dr Abdulrahman Al Awar, Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation, awarded winners of the cricket Workforce Challenge Cup, which took place at the Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi, on the occasion of the International Workers’ Day. ...
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ABU DHABI / WAM Multiply Group, an Abu Dhabi-based investment holding company, announced a net profit excluding fair value gains (losses) of AED266 million, marking a 241 percent increase from the same period last year. The Group earned AED303 million in dividends from its public market portfolio, and its operating businesses generated AED269 million in revenue during Q1, an 11.6 ...
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ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi University (ADU) honoured the winners of the seventh “Arts for Autism†Competition, organised by ADU’s College of Arts and Sciences in collaboration with the Emirates Autism Society, the Ministry of Education, and the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation. The competition received over 160 art pieces from students across the UAE, with no specific ...
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