Abu Dhabi / WAM With the return of the 2016-17 academic school year, parents are encouraged to motivate their children to look forward to going back to school today, with particular emphasis on the first day of school. The ADEC’s last census indicated that there are about 375,000 students returning to public and private schools (130,147 and around 245,000, respectively) …

  Dubai / Emirates Business The UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has started to conduct a series of periodic surveys to determine the quality of services rendered by telecommunications operators across developing areas in the country. The surveys place key focus on testing, measuring and analyzing the services to identify weaknesses and addressing the issues in coordination with local operators. …

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoH) announced on Saturday the launch of the seventh initiative to bring down the prices of medicines by up to 63 percent by early September. Dr Amin Hussein Al Amiri, Assistant Undersecretary of the UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention for Public Health Policy and Licensing Sector, and Vice …