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Dubai / WAM The Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA) at the Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation has endorsed its continued efforts in implementing a number of initiatives aimed at facilitating operations for yachts and local marinas, with the aim of enhancing Dubai’s position as a marine leisure hub. Sheikh Saeed bin Ahmed bin Khalifa Al Maktoum, Executive Director of ...

Bloomberg Taiwan downed a civilian drone after weeks of complaints about incursions by unmanned aerial vehicles from China, a sign Taipei is pushing back against Beijing’s efforts to encroach on its territory. Taiwanese troops shot the drone down near Kinmen Island around noon Thursday after attempts to repel it failed, according to a statement from the garrison on the Taipei-held ...

Sharjah / WAM Beeah Recycling, a waste processing and material recovery business under Beeah group, has added a new Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF) facility to its state-of-the-art, integrated waste management complex in Al Sajaa, Sharjah. The SRF facility will transform commercial residue waste into a high-quality alternative green fuel in cement factories, where the fuel will be injected into the ...

  Dubai / WAM Al Jalila Foundation, a member of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, dedicated to transforming lives through medical innovation, announced that it has received the first donation in cryptocurrency at an equivalent value of $16 million to support Hamdan Bin Rashid Cancer Charity Hospital. The donation, the first of its kind in the UAE, ...

  Dubai / WAM Emirates, the world’s largest international airline, carried more than 10 million passengers on nearly 35,000 flights to 130 destinations this summer. The airline also ramped up operations to serve customer demand during this busy period, reinstating daily services to London Stansted, and increasing flights to 33 cities on popular routes across Europe, Asia, and the Middle ...

Bloomberg Taiwan warned it faces “severe military challenges” from surging Chinese military activity edging closer to the island, as Beijing tries to change the status quo in the Taiwan Strait. Taipei expects the People’s Liberation Army to continue sending warships and jets across the median line that divides the waterway, the island’s Ministry of National Defense said in an annual ...

Bloomberg German inflation accelerated to the most since the euro was introduced on soaring energy prices, bolstering calls for a jumbo interest-rate increase when the European Central Bank meets next week. Consumer prices in Europe’s biggest economy, calculated under European Union harmonised standards, jumped 8.8% from a year ago in August, matching the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has delivered an inspiring audio message to students as the new academic year begins in UAE schools. In his speech, which was broadcast in classrooms across the country this morning, His Highness welcomed students and teachers to the start of what he hoped would be a ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Hub71, Abu Dhabi’s global tech ecosystem, has selected its latest cohort of tech startups from a large number of applicants worldwide that chose to setup and scale from the UAE’s capital. For the next two years, the new cohort will participate in Hub71’s Incentive Programme, benefiting from equity-free incentives worth up to AED500,000 and access ...

  Sharjah / WAM “Museums Express” initiative, launched by the Sharjah Museums Authority in early 2019, attracted more than 11,817,000 students from the emirate’s public schools, after resuming its tours that were halted due to the repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic in November 2021, and is the first initiative of its kind, at the level of the region and the ...