ABU DHABI / WAM Dr. Amal Abdullah Al Qubaisi, Speaker of the Federal National Council (FNC), recently met Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President of World Bank Group and his accompanying delegation, which included a number of regional directors in the Middle East. During their meeting, they discussed ways to strengthen mutual cooperation in various fields, especially in the parliamentary field. ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Customs has firmly stood against infringements of intellectual property rights in order to protect society and the economy from the harm of counterfeit goods, and to support a competitive investment environment in Dubai by enabling producers to avoid losses arising from imitation of their brands. Consequently, the number of seizures of IPR-infringing items carried out by ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Microcredit Summit Campaign and the Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development announced a strategic partnership for the 18th Microcredit Summit: Frontier Innovations in Financial Inclusion, to be held in Abu Dhabi next month. The 18th Microcredit Summit will gather global policy makers and microfinance experts to explore how microfinance and other innovative financial inclusion strategies can ...