DUBAI / WAM Dubai has hosted 270 local and international sporting events during the first half of 2021, with the support, oversight and cooperation of the Dubai Sports Council. The council announced its figures and statistics on sporting events held from January 1 to June 30, which included international tournaments, social events, women’s sporting events, conferences, exhibitions and virtual events ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (Seha) has announced the opening of additional specialised clinics on Saturdays across Ambulatory Healthcare Services (AHS), Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC), Al Dhafra Hospitals, and Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City (SSMC). The clinics available on Saturdays across the network include pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, gastroenterology, cardiology, psychiatry, dentistry, ophthalmology, orthopedics, ENT, dermatology, ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM A UAE official delegation headed by Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh, Minister of State, and Khaled Mohammed Balama, Governor of the central bank of the UAE, visited the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Dr Fahd bin Abdullah Al-Mubarak, Governor of the central bank of Saudi Arabia and Chairman of the Anti-Money Laundering Permanent Committee, received the delegation. The ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM A delegation from the Federal National Council (FNC), headed by Hamad Ahmed Al Rahoumi, First Deputy to the Speaker of the FNC, will travel to Kuwait on an official visit on Tuesday, to strengthen the parliamentary ties. The FNC delegation will include Suhail Nakhira Al Afari, Yousef Abdullah Al Batran, Humaid Ali Al Abbar Al Shamsi, ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, has issued a resolution to form a new Board of Directors for the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The new board will be chaired by ...

Sharjah / WAM The Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has discussed with the Consulate-General of the Republic of South Korea in Dubai means of enhancing economic cooperation and commercial relations between companies and investment institutions operating in Sharjah and South Korea. They also discussed ways of supporting partnerships, along with investment opportunities available in information technology, healthcare, tourism, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Alpha Condé, President of Guinea, has received Major General Dr Ahmed Nasser Al Raisi, Inspector General of the Ministry of the Interior (MoI), and his accompanying delegation. During the meeting, the sides discussed means to enhance relations between Guinea and the UAE in police and security fields. President Condé stressed the depth of the UAE-Guinea relations, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Khalifa University (KU) is now a member of the Global Engineering Education Exchange Program (Global E3 Consortium), a consortium-based exchange programme established in 1995 that provides undergraduate engineering students an opportunity to study in leading universities from around the world while being able to pay tuition at their home university. As a top ranked university in ...

Bloomberg The world’s biggest platinum miners are ramping up plans to build renewable energy plants to free them from power outages that have plagued South Africa for more than a decade and to reduce their carbon footprint. Sibanye Stillwater Ltd, the No. 1 platinum miner, Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd and Anglo American Platinum Ltd said they plan to scale up ...

Bloomberg Offshore wind farm developers are finding one more thing in common with the fossil fuel industry: community backlash on both sides of the Atlantic. Much like the resistance to fracking in parts of the US and the UK, oceanfront towns have fought against power lines running ashore from wind farms, even as the massive turbines themselves are mostly out ...