Abu Dhabi / WAM Mubadala Investment Company, Abu Dhabi’s strategic investment vehicle, announced on Wednesday it will bring together six of its wholly-owned medical assets in the United Arab Emirates into an integrated network to serve patients seeking specialised care. Mubadala Health, the integrated healthcare network is focused on enhancing the patient experience, seeking innovative solutions, driving collaboration across the ...

SHARJAH / WAM Sharjah National Oil Corporation (SNOC) has announced the start-up of its new gas storage project. This follows a small-scale pilot phase using existing infrastructure that has been running since early 2017. The first gas was introduced to the project on January 1 following a turbulent year and marking a new era for SNOC. The project was completed ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The National Central Cooling Company (Tabreed) has announced the signing of an agreement with Miral to provide district cooling services to SeaWorld Abu Dhabi, a first-of-its-kind marine life theme park being developed by Miral on Yas Island. Tabreed will connect the new SeaWorld Abu Dhabi development to its existing Yas Island district cooling scheme and will ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and Chairman of the Education and Human Resources Council urged all employees in public and private educational establishments, including teachers and administrative staff, to take the coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine, to support the country’s efforts to vaccinate over 50 percent of residents ...

Sharjah / WAM Sharjah National Oil Corporation (SNOC) announced the start-up of its new gas storage project. This follows a small-scale pilot phase using existing infrastructure that has been running since early 2017. The first gas was introduced to the project on January 1, 2021 following a turbulent year and marking a new era for SNOC. The project was completed ...

DUBAI / WAM Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) visited the hydroelectric power station in Hatta to review work progress of the project, which is the first of its kind in the GCC region. According to Dewa, the 250MW station will generate electricity by making use of the water stored in Hatta ...

DUBAI / WAM DMCC, the Free Zone and Government of Dubai Authority on commodities trade and enterprise, will host six diamond tenders in its Dubai Diamond Exchange, the world’s largest diamond tender facility, in January. This follows a record-breaking tender hosted in December 2020, which saw the largest ever rough diamond tender sales in the UAE, in a sign that ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 156,520 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. As part of its intensified testing campaign, MoHAP announced 2,067 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of recorded cases in the UAE to 218,766. The ministry also noted that an ...

Sharjah / WAM The Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority (SCTDA) has announced the resumption of desert tours and related activities in the emirate with strict implementation of the precautionary measures and guidelines issued for desert tours and Sharjah tour operators. This latest decision comes as part of the efforts to resume the tourism activities in the emirate at a ...

There’s more at stake in Tokyo’s prospective emergency measures to contain the coronavirus than the fate of the metropolis’s great restaurants. Bullish scenarios for a muscular global economic rebound may have to be reassessed. The International Monetary Fund has penciled in world growth of 5.2%, and a 6.9% boost for Asia. Morgan Stanley predicted a global gain of 6.4%. But ...