Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has announced that the adoption rate of its smart services has reached 80 percent, ahead of the deadline set by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to reduce the number of visitors to government offices by 80 ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Emirates Post Group (EPG) discussed cooperation with Universal Postal Union (UPU) in postal field. This came during a meeting between Chairman of EPG, Mohamed Sultan Al-Qadi, and UPU Director-General Bishar Hussein, Regional Coordinator of International Development Programme for African Countries Abdellatif Meskine. The meeting was attended by Chief Support Services Officer at EPG Sami Alkhaja, ...

DUBAI / WAM Abu Dhabi achieved a 4% uplift in hotel guests last month, compared to July 2016, with almost 400,000 guests pushing the cumulative total for the first seven months of the year to over 2.6 million, maintaining a growth of 7% on the year, according to figures released by Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi). ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai’s leading conference organizer World Arena Group, is all set to host Dubai’s first women SME conference on the October 3 and 4 at V FIVE Palm Jumeirah, Dubai. With an expected attendance of over 200 women from across the Middle East, the Women SME conference in partnership with Dubai Business Women Council will cover various topics ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business In an awareness campaign launched by the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism) six young social media influencers from the region took part in the Dubai Summer Challenge to prove that Dubai provides great value to visitors. The project highlighted the diversity of value offerings and experiences that tourists can choose from during their ...

DUBAI / WAM Hussain bin Ibrahim Al Hammadi, Minister of Education, stressed that the Emirati schools have become more established, developed and up-to-date with the best international systems. He added that the ministry has conducted a series of continuous improvement programmes, as part of their development efforts to adopt the best educational standards and practices in the country’s education system, ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Emaar Properties announced the launch of an exhilarating tourist attraction that will especially appeal to adventure lover with the new Sky Walk, a 200-metre high cantilever observation corridor in the Address Sky View development in Downtown Dubai. Sky Walk offers the unique experience of taking in spectacular views from a height of 200 metres as the ...

Bloomberg The UK wants to squeeze in more hours of Brexit negotiation as an October deadline to secure a breakthrough with the European Union looks increasingly unattainable. There are only two more rounds penciled in before an EU summit that will decide if talks can move to trade. But time is not on the side of PM Theresa May, and ...

Bloomberg PayPal Holdings Inc. is turning to its old nemesis, plastic, to help it expand beyond the digital realm. The online payments venture is introducing a credit card that offers customers 2 percent cash back on purchases—one of the industry’s highest rebate rates—with no annual fee. The rewards will appear in users’ online wallets and can be spent immediately on ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Theresa May said she’s keen for the UK to keep any benefits from a potential trade deal between the European Union and Japan after its scheduled departure from the bloc in March 2019. “There’s obviously a number of trade deals that the EU has with other countries and we are looking at the possibility of those being ...