ABU DHABI / WAM Masdar City’s Etihad Eco-Residence has won the Green Residential Building award at the Emirates Green Building Council (EmiratesGBC) Middle East and North Africa (Mena) Green Building Awards 2018. A team from Multiplex Constructions LLC, which built the complex, received the award for the Masdar-developed project at a ceremony in Dubai. Designed by project partners Woods Bagot ...

SHARJAH / WAM In 2017, Sharjah Charity International (SCI), launched a series of projects in several countries, including Niger, Malawi, India, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Egypt, worth AED7 million, which benefitted poor families. The projects included those in the areas of housing, stories, wells, mosques, schools and infrastructure maintenance, and were funded by an endowment donated by philanthropists in ...

Dubai / WAM Smart Dubai has begun carrying out the first phase of the Dubai Paperless Strategy, which seeks to digitise internal and external transactions at government offices, and save time and effort for employees and customers. The initiative was launched in early 2018 by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and ...