Abu Dhabi / WAM Noura bint Mohammed Al Kaabi, Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, has reaffirmed the role of innovation in contributing to the economic upswing in the United Arab Emirates. Urging UAE youth to contribute to their country’s economic development, the minister, while addressing the second edition of the Mohammad Bin Zayed Majlis for Future Generations on Tuesday, ...

Dubai / WAM Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Managing Director and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa), received an Austrian delegation headed by Dr. Hartwig Loger, Minister of Finance of Austria. During the meeting, Al Tayer presented Dewa’s key projects, initiatives and programmes. “The authority has adopted the triple-bottom-line approach towards sustainability of the economy, society, and the environment. This ...

Dubai / WAM While people of all ages share the goal of maintaining a sustainable and healthy planet, it is the youngest members of the global population who can have the longest influence and make the biggest contribution to sustainable living, said, Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment. The miknister said, today youth in the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE will assist Kosovo in development of its capacities, in addition to attaining social and economic development through the progress of mutually-beneficial activities and frameworks, after the two sides signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The MoU was signed in Abu Dhabi by Obaid bin Humaid Al Tayer, Minister of State for Financial Affairs, and ...

HADRAMAUT / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) on Monday distributed relief assistance to people in a number of areas in Tarim, in Yemen’s Hadramaut Governorate, as part of the ‘Year of Zayed’, and as part of its continued efforts to support the country’s humanitarian and developmental needs across all fields. Teams from the ERC distributed food baskets to hundreds ...

Dubai / WAM The Dubai Land Department (DLD), organised the Global Consultations on Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), in Land Administration in collaboration with the World Bank. During the two-day consultation, nearly 50 global consultants, specialists, and experts in the field of real estate participated to exchange knowledge between different global experiences in PPPs in the real estate sector. Sultan Butti bin ...

ABU DHABI / WAM In a pioneering move for the insurance industry, Abu Dhabi National Insurance Company (Adnic), one of the leading regional multi-line insurance providers for corporates and individuals, has announced it will utilise Al Etihad Credit Bureau (AECB) products. As per UAE Federal Law No. (6) of 2010 concerning Credit Information, AECB regularly collects credit information from financial ...

Beirut / Emirates Business Emirates is offering travellers in Lebanon special Business class companion fares to 15 destinations across its network. The offers are valid for bookings until 31 October 2018, for travel until December 20. The special fares are available for two to eight people booking and flying together in Business Class. Fares from Lebanon start from $3626 per ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai has been adjudged the ‘Destination of the Year’ at the Seatrade Cruise Awards 2018, in recognition of the work done by the Cruise Tourism department of Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism) in pioneering cruise tourism in the region and positioning the city as a hub for winter sun cruising. Considered to ...

Bloomberg The world could install more than a trillion watts of renewable power over the next five years, more than the entire current generation capacity of the European Union. The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) latest annual report on renewables forecasts as much as an extra 1.3 terawatts of clean energy will be installed by 2023 under one scenario. Even in ...