ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE-Japan SME Platform was officially inaugurated in Abu Dhabi on Sunday in the presence of Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, UAE Minister of Economy, and Hiroshige Seko, Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry. The platform will support bilateral efforts to develop the vital small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME), sector. It was formed under the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), has announced that it has signed an agreement with the University of Queensland, Australia, to conduct a three-year research programme into turning a by-product of the alumina industry into soil. The research project, with the University of Queensland’s School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, will investigate combining bauxite residue with agricultural and ...

Dubai / WAM Hamad Buamim, President and CEO of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, DCCI, revealed that Dubai’s non-oil trade with Colombia reached AED506 million in 2016, a 200 percent increase from 2012. Speaking at the end of a visit by a high-level delegation of the DCCI to Colombia, he noted that there is still potential to boost ...