Dubai / WAM Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), has recorded strong growth in H1, 2016, becoming the number one financial centre in the Middle East and Africa, with 143 new companies licensed, including 39 leading financial firms. The DIFC has registered significant growth in workforce to over 21,000 professionals across more than 1,500 firms and continued infrastructure development including launch …

  Abu Dhabi / WAM A team of researchers from the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, in collaboration with Tadweer – Abu Dhabi’s Centre of Waste Management, are testing an integrated chemical reactor they have designed to produce high-quality biodiesel from fats, including waste cooking oil, in less time and with less energy and potentially lower cost than traditional biodiesel …

  Dubai / WAM The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), in collaboration with Emaar Properties, is starting the trial run on Thursday of the first autonomous 10-seater car shuttling over a 700-metre long track at the Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard. Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the RTA, said, “The trial run of the …