AJMAN / WAM HH Sheikh Ammar bin Humaid Al Nuaimi, Crown Prince of Ajman, Chairman of the Ajman Executive Council, inaugurated the two-day long third edition of Ajman Career Fair 2016, organised by the Central Department for Human Resources Development in Ajman. Held at the Emirates hall of the Emirates Hospitality centre in Ajman, over 47 exhibitors representing different ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Anti-Money Laundering and Suspicious Cases Unit (AMLSCU) at the Central Bank of the UAE and the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) and related matters. Both parties are committed to continuing ...

  DUBAI / WAM The National Productivity Forum discussed priorities, actions and policies required to enhance productivity on the macroeconomic and economic levels, as well as facilities and employment activities in the UAE labour market. The platform aimed to establish a new norm in the business sector to consolidate innovation and employ new technologies so as to contribute to consolidating ...

  MEKNES / WAM The United Arab Emirates has concluded its participation as Guest of Honour at the 11th International Agriculture Show in Morocco (SIAM) which was being held in Meknes. Ali Yousef Al Saad, Acting Director of Communication and Community Services at Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority, said that the UAE Pavilion, which won the Best International Pavilion award ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Federal National Council (FNC) will hold its tenth meeting of the first ordinary session of the 16th legislative chapter on May 10 in Abu Dhabi under the chairmanship of Dr. Amal Abdullah Al Qubaisi, FNC Speaker. During the session, in the presence of H.H. Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime ...

  KATHMANDU / WAM Sixteen climbers from the UAE Armed Forces set up camp in the Khumbu valley, 5,364 metres above sea level in the Himalayas in Nepal, as they prepare to climb Mount Everest. The UAE military team will camp there for several weeks in preparation for the main adventure, which is attempting to climb the world’s highest peak ...

  DUBAI / WAM Dubai’s ambitious growth plans as well as policy focus on competitiveness and innovation have been explained to US investors and businesses during a series of ‘Doing Business in Dubai’ seminars hosted recently across Orlando, Dallas, Denver and San Francisco, by a delegation led by Dubai Investment Development Agency, Dubai FDI, an agency of the Department of ...

  LA PORTE / AP Back in the part of the country where he last lost to Ted Cruz, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is confidently pushing for a win on Tuesday in Indiana that he argues ought to knock the Texas senator out of the race. Buoyed by a sweep of last week’s primary elections along the East Coast, ...

  Denpasar / AFP Police on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali shot dead a French national on Monday after he killed a policeman while resisting arrest, an official said. Amokrane Sabet, reported to be a mixed martial arts fighter, was known as a troublemaker in the area in southern Bali where he lived. “There had been many complaints about ...

  SEOUL/ AP Seoul has instructed its foreign embassies to take extra precautions against possible North Korean attempts to kidnap or attack South Koreans abroad, officials said on Monday. The instruction was issued in response to North Korea’s threat to retaliate for last month’s group defection by 13 North Koreans, who Pyongyang says were kidnapped by South Korean spies while ...