SHARJAH / WAM Following the conclusion of its Annual General Meeting, the Board of Directors of Air Arabia has announced that the assembly has approved the distribution of a 9 percent cash dividend of the company’s share capital for the year 2015. During the meeting, the General Assembly approved the auditor’s report for the financial year ending on the 31st ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE has put a strong focus on ensuring that the country is well prepared for any emergency or crisis that may occur, government officials said at the Crisis and Emergency Management Conference held in the capital. Organised by the National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority(NCEMA) the two-day event is aimed at bringing experts together ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority, TCA Abu Dhabi, has launched a new, improved version of its Visit Abu Dhabi mobile application. The latest Visit Abu Dhabi app, which allows users to gain instant access to all that’s new in the emirate via their mobile phones, is now live and features several upgrades and enhancements as ...

Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, received Houlin Zhao, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union, ITU, based in Geneva. During the meeting, which was held in the presence of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, and HH Sheikh Maktoum ...

Dubai / WAM Emirates Institute for Banking and Financial Studies(EIBFS), a regional leader in banking and finance education and training, has hosted an interactive workshop on Basel III implementation strategies and associated challenges for more than 70 senior-level attendees from the UAE’s banking sector. The institute welcomed Basel III experts and specialists from prominent local and global financial establishments, including ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Board of Directors of the UAE Banks Federation (UBF) held its first meeting of the year, headed by the Chairman of UBF, AbdulAziz Al Ghurair, to discuss progress on a number of high priority topics for the federation this year. The topics included progress on the Mobile Wallet project, and the creation of a Higher ...

Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chief of the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince’s Court, on Monday inaugurated the Microcredit Summit, which is being held under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Chairman of Abu Dhabi Executive Council. Organised jointly by Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development, the Arab Gulf Programme for ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The Crisis and Emergency Management Conference (CEMC) 2016 – Fifth Edition held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, National Security Advisor, and organised by the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority (NCEMA), concluded on Monday at St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort – Abu Dhabi. The two-day event titled ...

Dubai / Emirates Business UAE banks can now acquire their UnionPay cards locally as a leading global provider of payment services has certified its card manufacturing and card personalization sites in the UAE. UnionPay International will now produce its cards locally and banks in the UAE will no longer need to import UnionPay cards from outside the region. Currently over ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The world’s largest passenger aircraft comes to Austria on July 1, as Emirates announces that it will operate one of its two scheduled daily flights into Vienna International Airport with its iconic A380 aircraft. The airline, which has carried almost three million passengers on the Dubai-Vienna route since it was launched on 1st May 2004, will ...