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 …

DUBAI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council of Dubai, on Sunday inaugurated GITEX, the region’s most prominent technology event, which started on Sunday and runs until October 12 at Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) More than 4,000 companies from 71 countries around the world …