Sharjah / WAM Bee’ah, an environmental management company, has launched a new high-tech, Industrial Waste Water Treatment Plant (IWWTP), in Sharjah. The new plant at the company’s Waste Management Centre in Al Saj’ah, signifies a new milestone in the country’s zero-waste journey, and will be one of the UAE’s first dedicated full cycle treatment facilities for industrial and oil-contaminated wastewater. The ...

Dubai / WAM On the launch of the third round of Arab Hope Makers initiative, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, said that “every person has a capacity to give and a talent to invest in serving societies.” He added, “Water drops make a river, and reigniting ...

FUJAIRAH / WAM The National Bank of Fujairah (NBF), held its Annual General Assembly Meeting on Monday, where shareholders approved the distribution of profits of 20 percent of paid-up capital. This took the form of cash dividends of 7.5 percent (AED 23.3 million) and bonus shares of 12.5 percent (AED205.6 million) of paid-up capital. The bank’s shareholders also approved the ...

SHARJAH / WAM The 6th edition of the Real Estate Investment Exhibition, ACRES 2019, will kick off on Tuesday until March 21, under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler of Sharjah. ACRES 2019, which will be held at Expo Sharjah, will be witnessing the participation of a large ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business LuLu, the largest hypermarket chain in the region, launched its annual British food festival “Food is Great Britain: Truly British, Truly Delicious”. The week-long fest highlights a wide variety of food products imported from the UK, which is available at great discounts from March 18 to 26. The launch event was inaugurated by H.E Patrick ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Chairman of the Supreme National Committee for Tolerance, has launched the Zayed Tolerance Pledge campaign which aims to consolidate the values of tolerance and coexistence established by the Founding Father, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. On his ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The United Arab Emirates, represented by the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), provided emergency humanitarian assistance worth AED10 million to Venezuelan refugees in Colombia, including 75,000 food parcels, medical supplies, and medicines benefiting 375,000 refugees. The move follows the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme ...

Dubai / WAM The UAE ranked 8th on the Positivity Index of Nations, an annual global report published by the Positive Economy Institute since 2013, which measures positive economy indicators in OECD member countries. The UAE, which is being included in the Index as a non-OECD country for the first time since its creation, outperformed 27 out of the 34 ...

Dubai / WAM The UAE’s bid to become one of the world’s top 10 food secure nations took a major step forward when Mariam Almheiri, Minister of State for Food Security, released an innovation-driven food security roadmap for the Middle East. Designed to further the objectives of the UAE’s National Food Security Strategy and to support regional improvement in this ...

Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron seemed to have overcome the worst of the Yellow Vest protests. One Saturday of renewed violence has put him back in crisis management mode. Shops on Paris’s iconic Champs Elysé es were torched and 200 people were arrested, prompting Prime Minister Edouard Philippe’s office to note the police actions had shown “inadequacies.” Recent protests had ...