Abu Dhabi / WAM Etihad Airways on Monday announced a partnership with World Champion Esports team “Nigma”, the organisation founded by The International 7 champions. Nigma will be the first esports team ever to be sponsored by a major airline and the Abu Dhabi based Etihad Airways will make sure the team and its support staff will arrive, relaxed, refreshed ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Etihad Airways on Monday announced a partnership with World Champion Esports team “Nigma”, the organisation founded by The International 7 champions. Nigma will be the first esports team ever to be sponsored by a major airline and the Abu Dhabi based Etihad Airways will make sure the team and its support staff will arrive, relaxed, refreshed ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 160,390 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement on Monday, the ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the necessary ...

DUBAI / WAM Reem bint Ibrahim Al Hashemy, Minister of State for International Cooperation, and Director-General of the Expo 2020 Dubai Bureau, discussed, with Nadia Fettah Alaoui, Minister of Tourism, Air Transport, Handicrafts and Social Economy of Morocco, ways of enhancing the cooperation between the UAE and Morocco, highlighting their mutual keenness to witness Morocco’s active participation in the Expo ...

Dubai / WAM The Dubai Police General Command, in cooperation with partners at local and national levels, has recently organised a meeting for liaisons officers in the country to review security plans, scenarios, and procedures for the upcoming Expo 2020, and to check the readiness of teams and committees involved. The meeting, which was held at Dubai Police Officers Club, ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The implementation team of the Hazardous Materials Monitoring Programme in Abu Dhabi has completed the inventory and classification of hazardous materials. They have checked the preventive and safety measures in the stores selling hazardous materials and taken appropriate corrective measures. The team was led by Brigadier Humaid Saeed Alefreet, Deputy Director of Security and Ports Affairs ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE on Monday sent an aid plane containing 49 metric tons of food to Mauritania as part of its humanitarian initiatives during the Holy Month of Ramadan to assist those facing humanitarian challenges resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. Hamad Ghanem Al Mehairi, UAE Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, said, “The UAE constantly seeks ...

Sharjah / WAM The Hamriyah Free Zone (HFZA)-based Awail Al-Sham, owner of the Al Awail brand for prayer times clock and other innovative e-products, has announced that its products have become available in 100 markets worldwide, as opposed to 50 markets in 2013, the year in which the company has opted for the HFZA as its new headquarters, achieving a ...

Bloomberg South Korean energy supplier SK Innovation Co and SK IE Technology Co have raised 2.25 trillion won ($2 billion) in the battery material unit’s initial public offering, the country’s biggest in four years. SK IE Technology has priced the offering at 105,000 won per share, the top of a marketed range, according to an exchange statement. The portion for ...

Bloomberg Copper climbed to the highest in almost a decade as the global recovery from the pandemic extended a rally in metals markets. Aluminum is surging and iron ore jumped to a fresh high as commodities advance toward the highs of the last supercycle. Metals are benefiting as the world’s largest economies announce programs to build back greener from the ...