Dubai / WAM The Dubai Government Excellence Program, sponsored by the General Secretariat of the Executive Council of Dubai, organised a forum entitled, “Dubai, a friendly city for people with disabilities”. In attendance at the forum were Abdulla Al Shaibani, Secretary-General of the Executive Council of Dubai, and Chairman of Dubai Government Excellence Program, Ahmed Abdelkareem Jalfaar, Director-General for Community …

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Center (ADSIC), recently held a three day workshop with Microsoft at the Shangri-La Hotel – Abu Dhabi. The workshops was attended by IT management, CIOs, CISOs, System Administrators, Identity and Security Engineers from more than 35 government entities with the aim of building capacity and increasing awareness on …

  Abu Dhabi / WAM UAE holidaymakers are putting themselves at increased risk of facing serious financial repercussions by not taking measures to adequately cover themselves in the event of a travel emergency, experts warned. Describing community awareness about travel insurance in the UAE as “probably among the lowest in global markets”, Phil Ashkuri, Head of General Insurance at Nexus Group, …

  Economists like to tell a possibly apocryphal story about Milton Friedman. The prophet of free markets, visiting an Asian country in the 1960s, witnessed a public-works project that had people making a road with picks and shovels. When he asked why they didn’t use earth-moving machines instead, a local official responded that the goal was to provide people with …

  Earlier this year, the Thai government announced its desire to create an economy of fresh new businesses through a 20 billion baht ($555 million) fund. Its stated goal was to “increase the number of startups in Thailand to 10,000 by 2018,” Information and Communication Technology Minister Uttama Savanayana was cited as saying in April, according to the Bangkok Post. …

  President-elect Donald Trump isn’t even in office yet, and he’s already delivered a helpful boost to the economy — the Japanese economy. At the end of a year of gloomy announcements, the Bank of Japan has raised its growth forecast for next year, and Trump deserves much of the credit. The main reason for the BOJ’s improving mood is …

A truck attack in Christmas market in Berlin killed 12 people. And IS group, as it has become customary with the extremists, claimed responsibility for the rampage. The claim came shortly after German prosecutors released a Pakistani asylum seeker who was the sole suspect in the case because of lack of evidence. The German investigators are probing the case from …

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business HE Eng. Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansoori, UAE Minister of Economy (MoE), recently met Suren Karayan, Minister of Economic Development and Investments of Armenia to discuss key ways to further expand economic and trade relations between the two countries–building investment partnerships in sectors that would bring mutual benefits to both countries based on their …

  Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC), a Strategic Partner of Dubai Festivals and Retail Establishment (DFRE), is celebrating the region’s largest shopping and entertainment festival – the Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) 2017 – for the 22nd consecutive year, by offering customers and visitors a chance to win a Nissan Car daily. ENOC has unveiled an impressive …

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business A new regional conference devoted to exploring the growing role of the Middle East as the world’s largest producer of sulphur is to take place in the UAE capital in February 2017. Hosted by CRU Events – a subsidiary of the business intelligence company, CRU Group, that focuses on the global metals, mining and …