SHARJAH / WAM HH Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member, Ruler of Sharjah, and President of the Sharjah Performing Arts Academy (SPAA), chaired the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the SPAA in the academy building in the University City in Sharjah. At the beginning of the meeting, His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah welcomed ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department’s (ADJD) Centre for Legal and Community Awareness has launched an expanded awareness campaign against domestic violence that will run for three months. The “Violence… the End of Family Stability” campaign aims to raise public awareness of various preventive measures against domestic violence, highlight its detrimental effects, educate on family rights and ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) inked a partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to advance the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to meet sustainable development goals. As part of the collaboration, the university becomes the founding knowledge partner for the UNDP’s AI for Sustainable Development Platform (AI4SDP), an initiative born out ...

ABU DHABI / WAM UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a message of condolences to King Abdullah II of Jordan, over the passing of Khaled bin Musaed bin Saif bin Abdulaziz Al Saif, the father of Princess Rajwa Al Hussein, wife of the Jordanian Crown Prince. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ...

DUBAI / WAM Emirates Flight Catering, one of the world’s largest catering operations, has fully acquired Emirates Bustanica, formerly called Emirates Crop One, and its consumer brand Bustanica, the world’s largest indoor vertical farm. This strategic move establishes Emirates Bustanica as a fully UAE-owned company, helping sustain the country’s vision of enhancing food and water security and its agricultural capabilities. ...

DUBAI / WAM As part of its agenda for the ‘UAE Innovates 2024’ initiative, held throughout February, the Federal Tax Authority (FTA) signed a collaboration agreement with the 01GOV Platform, in an effort to expand the use of its own Tax 10 platform. The authority launched Tax 10 last year to encourage innovation and promote excellence and professional creativity among ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai International (DXB) has concluded a record-breaking year of achievements and extraordinary growth by welcoming 87 million guests in annual traffic in 2023, surpassing not only Dubai Airports’ own yearly forecast but also pre-pandemic levels of traffic. This remarkable performance marks the successful and ahead-of-time completion of DXB’s recovery journey, further solidifying its position as the world’s ...

MUNICH/ WAM The Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT), UAE, and the State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, today signed a Joint Declaration of Intent (JDI) on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, which took place in Munich, Germany. The signatories included the UAE Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT), the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Tourism ...

ABU DHABI/ WAM Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Presidential Court, H.H. Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan crowned the winner of the main race in the UAE President’s Cup for Purebred Arabian Horses, which included 7 races, in the presence of Sheikh Nahyan bin ...

AL ARISH/ WAM The UAE has sent five automatic bakeries to the Egyptian city of Al Arish, as a preliminary to their entry into the Gaza Strip, as part of “Gallant Kinght 3” humanitarian operation to support the people of Palestine. This initiative comes in response to the severe shortage of bread in the Gaza Strip during the current circumstances. ...