ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi University has offered over AED20 million in scholarships and financial aid during the academic year 2016/ 2017, to 1,200 students. The university had already earmarked AED12 million for scholarships and financial aid at the beginning of the year to coincide with the announcement of #Year_of_Giving initiative, bringing the total volume of financial aid and ...

Dubai / WAM The UAE Gender Balance Council (UGBC) recently held its second meeting for 2017, which was led by the council’s Vice President, Mona Al Marri. During the meeting, the council discussed various topics, including the preliminary results of the Gender Balance Index across federal government entities, pension entitlements for the families of deceased female employees, the council’s brand ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump Jr.’s lawyer acknowledged his client received an email last year offering a meeting with someone who had potentially damaging information on Hillary Clinton, hours after a report that the younger Trump had been told it was part of a Russian effort to help his father’s campaign. The entreaty to President Donald Trump’s eldest son came via email ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Dr Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi, Director-General of the Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC), accompanied by Mohamed Salem Al Dhaheri, Executive Director of ADEC’s School Operations, and Ali Alhaj Al Mehairbi, Executive Director of Buildings Construction Management at the Abu Dhabi General Services Company, Musanada, toured two of the new school buildings located in Mohammed Bin Zayed ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The United Arab Emirates tops the list of Arab countries for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows, with around US$ 9 billion (AED33.3 billion) during 2016, followed by Egypt and then the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the third place, according to the Arab Investment and Export Credit Guarantee Corporation, Dhaman. As per the investment climate report ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai has seen its efforts to combat climate change in the city richly rewarded by the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40). The governing body, which provides strategic direction for the C40 network of 91 of the world’s greatest cities committed to action on climate change, has elected His Excellency Abdullah Abdul Rahman Al Shaibani, Secretary ...

SAN DIEGO / WAM Twenty-one entities from Abu Dhabi’s e-Government concluded a successful participation in the 2017 Esri User Conference the world’s leading Geographic Information Systems (GIS) event, which took place in San Diego, California and drew more than 15,000 specialists from 130 countries. Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Centre (ADSIC), organised and managed all aspects of the participation, on ...

DUBAI / WAM Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation (MBRF) convened its third meeting to prepare for the upcoming inaugural edition of the Global Knowledge Index, following the directives of HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation. The meeting was attended by an expert group associated with the ...

DUBAI / WAM With the goal of expanding cooperation in the field of disseminating science and knowledge in Dubai, the Dubai Electronic Security Centre (DESC) has signed an MoU with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), UAE Section. The MoU aims to strengthen mutual cooperation between both organisations with regards to developing educational materials and programmes on information ...

Bloomberg Among the sneakers, diapers and pet food for sale on Taobao, China’s biggest e-commerce platform, is a listing that may take up a little more space in the online shopping basket. For 4.15 million yuan ($610,000), customers on the site owned by e-retailing giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. can bid for the debt of a steelmaker from Zhejiang, a ...