Dubai / WAM Passengers using the Dubai’s public transport system rose in 2016 to nearly 543.6 million as compared to 539.5 million in 2015, according to figures released by the RTA’s Statistics Section, Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), revealed. The average daily passengers last year on Dubai’s ...

  Dubai / WAM The meeting of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel (HLP) on Women’s Economic Empowerment will officially open on Monday, February 6, at the Four Seasons Resort, Jumeirah, in Dubai. The UAE Gender Balance Council will host the two-day event, which is taking place for the first time in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The High-Level ...

  Sharjah / WAM Department of Statistics and Community Development (DSCD) shared the benefits of its pioneering models, its forecasting for future processes and the essential part a census plays in community planning, to some of the most influential census and surveys organisations in the Arab world. Held up as a prime example of modern population censuses, the DSCD informed participants ...