ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi City Municipality (ADCM) has launched a campaign to combat randomly placed advertising signs cluttering streets, public utilities and lampposts in Al Wathba. These signs, which lack official approval from the authorities, distort the appearance of the city and pose environmental hazards. The campaign comes in the context of the municipal system’s vision and keenness ...

DUBAI / WAM The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) is set to launch a project for eliminating faults in heavy vehicles, in line with the national strategy aimed at improving road safety and security and curbing accidents triggered by heavy vehicles. The project will curtail the negative impacts of faults sustained by heavy vehicles, and fend off the erratic driving ...

SHARJAH / WAM Sharjah Airport International Free Zone (SAIF Zone) has installed a permanent booth at Dubai World Trade Centre, DWTC, to attract traders and visitors throughout the year. “We opened a permanent booth in DWTC to share business information and details about SAIF Zone with local and international trade visitors from different sectors,” said Saud Al Mazrouei, Director of ...

DUBAI / WAM An estimated 700 volunteers from 14 schools, alongside community members, came together for a day of educational activities and clean-up of the shores of Dubai Sunset Beach last week, as part of the Waste Free Environment campaign. Supported by the UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment and the Dubai Municipality, Waste Free Environment is a global ...

ABU DHABI / EMIRATES BUSINESS The huge Chinese New Year celebration filled most of the Abu Dhabi’s Corniche with music and activities on Friday in the capital. Hundreds of citizens, residents, and Chinese expatriates gathered on Friday at Abu Dhabi’s Corniche to celebrate the Chinese New year festive held by the Confucius Institute at Zayed University to mark a prosperous start. ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has called on the ministers of the 12th Cabinet of the UAE government to work diligently and faithfully to help promote sustainable development of the country, achieve the aspirations of its people, and take the UAE to even higher stage of advancement beyond its growing international stature ...

ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has issued a federal decree, appointing H.H. Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan as National Security Advisor who will report directly to the chairman of the Supreme Council for National Security. The decree will be effective from the date of issuance and will be published in the Official ...

Dubai / WAM The Dubai Health Authority, DHA, announced today that its hospitals and specialty centres received more than one million patients in 2015. Dr. Ahmad Bin Kalban, CEO of Hospital Services Sector at DHA, said: “In 2015, the four DHA run hospitals and specialty centres received over one million patients. This number includes outpatients, accident and emergency cases, walk-in ...

ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, has stressed the new Cabinet with its new and young blood would continue to work to achieve aspirations of Emiratis in development and welfare, and to consolidate the country’s stature at the regional and international ...

Bloomberg Debating in the shadow of the death of conservative US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a downsized and more combative Republican presidential field battled in South Carolina over foreign policy, abortion, truthfulness, campaign tactics and blame for the Sept 11 terrorist attacks. The ninth debate featured just six candidates, including an even louder than usual Donald Trump, who blamed ...