Abu Dhabi / WAM Three Emirati students are being trained to support the UAE’s goal of unlocking the secrets to Mars, via a United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), project designed to provide greater insight into the Red Planet. The UAE Space Agency plans to send a probe, ‘Al Amal’ or ‘Hope’, to the Earth’s neighbouring planet, with the aim of ...

DUBAI / WAM Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy, and Dr Abdullah bin Mohammed Belhaif Al Nuaimi, Minister of Infrastructure Development, will lead a line-up of federal and state ministers from India and UAE at the inaugural two-day India-UAE Partnership Summit (IUPS), on October 30-31, at the Armani Hotel, Burj Khalifa, Dubai. Mohammed Sharaf Al Hashemi, Assistant Minister ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Emirates will operate a special one-off A380 service to Bahrain on December 15, one day ahead of the country’s 46th National Day celebrations. On December 15, the Emirates A380 service will operate as EK 835 and EK 836, departing Dubai at 0055hrs and arriving in Bahrain at 0110hrs. The flight will then depart Bahrain at 0350hrs ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Airports and Expo 2020 Dubai are leading the way in promoting world-class corporate wellness practices in the UAE, as the two government firms scooped top honours at the Daman Corporate Health Awards 2017, organised by MEED. Dubai Airports flew high on awards night winning two trophies. The corporate wellness team at Dubai Airports has been promoting ...

Ras Al Khaimah / Emirates Business Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone (RAKEZ) and RAKBANK, two of Ras Al Khaimah’s largest home-grown entities, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to offer the economic zone’s over 13,000 clients easy access to a wide range of banking services at preferential terms. The signing ceremony was held at RAKEZ headquarters in Ras Al ...

SHARJAH / WAM Gulftainer, the world’s largest privately owned independent port operator, has won the ‘Corporate Health and Wellness Initiative’ category at the Daman Corporate Health Awards 2017. The company earned recognition for its corporate well-being programme, ‘Positive Pulse’, that seeks to enhance employee engagement by promoting a healthy lifestyle. In line with the efforts of the UAE’s Ministry of ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business A new initiative to increase inbound tourism numbers from India to Abu Dhabi has been launched in India, with the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi spearheading a delegation of partners and stakeholders to a new multi-city promotional event in Mumbai and New Delhi. The ‘Abu Dhabi Week in India’ event, which took ...

Bloomberg Saudi Arabia is considering a more expansionary budget than planned for 2018, Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan said. Authorities were already planning an expansionary budget, “and we are considering even a potential further expansion,” Al-Jadaan said in an interview at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh. “We think the economy requires that support and development requires that support.” The drive ...

Bloomberg Total SA posted the highest earnings from pumping oil and gas in more than two years, illustrating the improving fortunes of an indus- try that’s endured the deepest downturn in a generation. Total’s earnings followed surprisingly strong profits from ConocoPhillips and Statoil ASA, driven by a combination of higher crude prices and deep cost cuts. Exxon Mobil Corp. and ...

DUBAI / Reuters International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, on Sunday said it had completed a $653 million debt package to finance building 13 solar power plants near Aswan in Egypt, planned to be part of the largest solar park in the world. Generating up to 752 mega-watts of solar power, the Nubian Suns Feed-in-Tariff ...