RAS AL KHAIMAH / WAM His Highness Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, received on Tuesday, at his palace at the Saqr bin Mohammed City, Zhang Yiming, Ambassador of China to the UAE, who came to greet the RAK Ruler. HH Sheikh Saud welcomed Ambassador Yiming and his accompanying delegation, and ...

SHARJAH / WAM His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on behalf of the University of Al Dhaid on Tuesday. The MoU was signed between the University of Al Dhaid, the University of Bristol, and the Royal Agricultural University in the United Kingdom at the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Lt General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, has met with Varney A Sirleaf, Minister of Internal Affairs of Liberia. During the meeting, the two sides reviewed several issues of mutual interest, in addition to ways of enhancing cooperation between their two countries in the fields ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) has announced the winners for its 17th edition, which recorded the highest number of submissions across all nine categories since the award’s launch, receiving a total of 3,151 submissions from 60 countries, including 22 Arab nations and 38 countries from around the world. The award, which is organised by the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM For the third consecutive year, Abu Dhabi ranked as the smartest city in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region for 2023, according to the IMD Smart City Index released by the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland in collaboration with the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). The International Institute for ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Chamber is set to highlight the key role played by the emirate’s private sector worldwide and expand its global networks, bilateral trade, and business reach during the 13th World Chambers Congress (WCC) in Geneva, Switzerland, from June 21-23. As a diamond sponsor of the 13th WCC, which is held under the theme of “Achieving Peace and ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, His Highness Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, has inaugurated the expansion of Al Falah housing project, providing 899 new homes to citizens at a ...

BERLIN / WAM In a speech at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin on Tuesday, Dr Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and COP28 President-Designate, presented his broad ambitions for COP28, which covered a call for transformative action and strong outcomes across the mitigation work programme, the global goal on adaptation and doubling adaptation finance, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE, through the Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation and the Emirates Red Crescent Authority, sent a plane carrying urgent food supplies to Abeche Airport on the Sudanese-Chadian border on Tuesday. The aid will urgently support Sudanese refugees affected by the current situation in the Republic of Sudan, which has led to the displacement of ...

RAS AL KHAIMAH / WAM Archaeologists in Ras Al Khaimah have partnered with two United States universities to analyse 4,000-year-old human remains to see if a dramatic climate event at that time can help inform how humans’ biology would be affected by a similar event in the future. A professor and student team of bio-anthropologists from Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, US, ...