Abu Dhabi / WAM The French Embassy in the UAE on Sunday opened a representative office of the French space agency in Abu Dhabi (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiale, CNES) to be the first foreign space agency opening a representative office in the UAE. The announcement was made on the occasion of the visit of Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of the ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of CNES, the French space agency, said that the UAE has become “one of the major actors in the space scene,” as he witnessed the opening of the agency’s representative office in Abu Dhabi on Sunday. CNES, one of the oldest institutional space agencies in the world, has become the first foreign ...

Dubai / WAM DMCC, the world’s flagship free zone and Government of Dubai Authority on commodities trade and enterprise, has been named the ‘Global Free Zone of the Year 2018’ by the Financial Times’ fDi Magazine for a record fourth consecutive year. Central to the national economic diversification strategy, DMCC’s latest set of awards reflect its ability to attract foreign ...