Dubai / Emirates Business Musafir.com, the UAE’s first homegrown premium-experience travel website has been recognised as the ‘Best Online Travel Agency’ in the Middle East at the first-ever Arabian Travel Awards held at JW Marriott Hotel Dubai. Musafir.com competed against a number of leading travel service providers in the Middle East to showcase its industry-leading technology, customer service and product …

DUBAI / WAM Dubai plans to have a new deep-tunnel sewerage system costing around AED30 billion by the year 2025 as part of the emirate’s efforts to accommodate any future growth and meet long-term needs for used water collection, treatment, reclamation and disposal. Dubbed the ‘Development of the Century’, the project should save millions of dirhams worth of maintenance costs …

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi’s e-Government will participate in the Esri User Conference (Esri UC), the world’s leading geographic information systems, GIS) event, to communicate, exchange experiences and share knowledge on the latest technologies and innovations in the industry. The conference is organised by the Environmental Systems Research Institute Esri, in San Diego, California from June 10 to July …

Dubai / Emirates Business Emcredit, a subsidiary of Dubai Economy, has forged a strategic alliance with Network International, the leading payment solutions provider in the Middle East and Africa region, to deliver world-class mobile payment solutions in the UAE. Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the two entities, Network International will provide advanced acquiring functionality for Emcredit’s next …

ABU DHABI / WAM As part of its efforts to develop sound and efficient infrastructure for banking systems in the Arab World, the Abu Dhabi-based Arab Monetary Fund (AMF), discussed reports on central banking issues, payment settlement systems and methodologies to promote financial inclusion and stability in the Arab countries. The reports were received by the Arab Committee on Banking …

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi National Insurance Company (ADINC), one of the leading regional multi-line insurance providers for corporates and individuals has been adjudged as the Best Insurance Company at the Banker Middle East (BME) Awards 2017 in Dubai. Commenting on the achievement, Abudlla Al Nuaimi, Executive Vice President – Shared Services at ADNIC said: “ADNIC’s performance in …

Bloomberg The heads of the world’s two largest economies brushed over differences on North Korea and trade as they met in person for the second time. The unlikely diplomatic friendship of President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping seemed to hold firm as the pair met on the sidelines of the Group of 20 meetings in Hamburg. Heading into …

Bloomberg Russian President Vladimir Putin said he believes Donald Trump agrees with his denial that Russia attempted to interfere in the 2016 US presidential election, which would put the US president at odds with the conclusion of multiple intelligence agencies. Putin and Trump met at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg for more than two hours. At a press …

Bloomberg Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Ukraine to reaffirm US support for the former Soviet republic following the first meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin two days earlier. Tillerson said Ukraine, locked in a more-than-three-year conflict with its neighbor over the annexation of Crimea and Russian backing for an insurgency, “has come a long way”. …

DUBAI / WAM In unison with the Smart Dubai vision, a smart mobility concept has been launched in the emirate to dedicate routes for the movem-ent of smart vehicles at Dubai Silicon Oasis. The initiative is the brainchild of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), and Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), the regulatory body for Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), the …