Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Airports on Sunday announced the completion of the Midfield Airside Road Tunnel, MART, which links the new Midfield Terminal Building, MTB, with the south side terminals – T1 and T3 – at the Abu Dhabi International Airport. The MART tunnel is approximately 1,165 metres long with an average overall width of 35 metres, providing ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Reed Exhibitions, the leading global event organiser, on Sunday confirmed that in line with the UAE leadership’s vision, artificial intelligence (AI) will form an important underlying component of the eighth edition of the International Exhibition for National Security and Resilience (ISNR Abu Dhabi 2018). The latest trends in AI and its application in homeland security ...

Bloomberg Pound traders are about to get their first insight into how the currency may fare in the next phase of the Brexit talks as negotiators move on to the potentially more complicated stage of discussing trade. Sterling may be vulnerable as UK Prime Minister Theresa May meets with her cabinet ministers on Tuesday to begin mapping out what they ...

Reuters Middle Eastern stock markets edged up in quiet trade on Sunday, with construction and building materials stocks boosting Saudi Arabia ahead of the release of its 2018 state budget this week. Saudi Arabia’s index added 0.3 percent as builder Khodari surged 7.6 percent in its heaviest trade since January. Najran Cement gained 4.5 percent and in addition to Khodari, ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business A technical delegation from Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) visited the Kingdom of Bahrain to review the progress of the development projects financed by the Fund in the country. The projects are being implemented as part of the AED9.19 billion grant provided by the UAE to Bahrain within the framework of the GCC development ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance, has called on all businesses to comply with the executive regulations of the Federal Law No. 08 of 2017 on Value Add Tax (VAT), and register online via the Federal Tax Authority’s website to receive a tax identification number, ...

Ras Al Khaimah / Emirates Business Ras Al Khaimah has been named the GCC’s ‘Favourite Adventure Destination’ at the 2017 Condé Nast Traveller Middle East Readers’ Choice Awards – the region’s premier travel industry honours. The award recognises the major strides the emirate has taken to develop international-standard adventure and activity tourism offerings centred around Jebel Jais – the UAE’s ...

Sharjah/ Emirates Business Sharjah Public Library (SPL) has launched its ‘Digital Library Collection’, providing 38,000 libraries and schools from around the world with access to 1,200 of the emirate’s eBooks and audiobooks. In cooperation with ‘Overdrive’, one of the leading digital reading platforms in education, the material is compatible with most mobile devices and PCs, giving instant global accessibility. The ...

Geneva / WAM The UAE has reiterated its serious commitment to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, stressing the importance of reaching gender balance as part of its fulfilment of said goals. Addressing the World Family Summit 2017 in Geneva, Obaid Salem Al Zaabi, Permanent Representative of the UAE to the United Nations and other International Organisations, said that ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), on Sunday launched the ‘Don’t Be Deceived’ campaign, to educate customers in general, and youth in particular, about the different ways of deception and fraud on smart devices and various modern technologies. The campaign, which was launched during a press conference at the Emirates Towers in Dubai, intends to raise awareness ...