Sharjah / Emirates Business Sheraa (Sharjah Entrepreneurship Center) – a launch pad for aspiring young entrepreneurs in the UAE – launched a Ramadan Giving Program where the Sheraa team and other participants introduced orphans supported by the Sharjah Social Empowerment Foundation (SSEF) to the world of entrepreneurship. The initiative is the result of a collaboration with ‘The Mawada Project’, an ...

Sharjah / Emirates Business Signaling a groundbreaking achievement for the UAE and the Arab world, Sharjah has been crowned with the prestigious ‘World Book Capital’ title for 2019 by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). The honour is a recognition of the emirate’s pioneering role in supporting and expanding the local and regional publishing industries, promoting reading to ...

Sharjah / WAM Habib Al Sayegh, Chairman of the Emirates Writers Union and Secretary-General of the Arab Writers Union, stressed that the international position of Sharjah in writing, in particular, and culture, in general, has been realised, due to the wise and farsighted vision of H.H. Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah ...

AL MUKALLA WAM An Emirati cargo ship carrying 15 buses to support schools and sporting clubs in the Hadhramaut, Shabwa and Ma’rib governorates arrived at Al Mukalla port on Tuesday. Ahmed Al Niyadi, Deputy Head of the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), team in Hadhramaut, said that the arrival of these buses falls within the framework of the UAE’s continuous support ...

Astana / Emirates Business His serene highness Prince Albert II, Prince of Monaco, was briefed on the efforts of the UAE and its pioneering initiatives in renewable energy during his visit to the UAE pavilion at the Expo 2017 in Astana. Prince Albert II praised the UAE’s strategy of diversifying energy resources and investing in future energy and its achievements ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The Gulf Education and Training Exhibition (GETEX), the leading student recruitment platform in the Middle East and Asia, is set to return with its autumn edition to support higher education providers in student recruitment for their Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 sessions. Held under the patronage of the UAE Ministry of Education, GETEX Autumn 2017 will ...

Bloomberg Late last month, an oil tanker that measures three football fields long and six stories high moved slowly through the port of Corpus Christi, Texas, to test the waters of America’s booming crude-export industry. After navigating the Aransas pass around 7 a.m. on May 26, the vessel, Euronav NV’s Anne, didn’t pick up any oil. But its arrival in ...

Bloomberg Oil advanced for a fourth day in New York, its longest run of gains in a month, on estimates that US crude inventories continued their decline from record levels seen earlier this year. Futures added as much as 1.2 percent after rising 2 percent in the previous three sessions. Inventories probably dropped by 2.25 million barrels last week, a ...

Bloomberg Three out of four oil and natural gas companies fell victim to at least one cyber attack last year as hacking efforts against the industry become more frequent and sophisticated. That’s the finding from a report released by industry consultant Deloitte LLP. Technology advances, such as Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s recent control of operations in Argentina from an operating ...

Bloomberg A trade complaint asking the Trump administration to impose tariffs on solar panels could devastate the US industry, wiping out two-thirds of solar systems forecast to be installed over the next five years, according to a report by GTM Research. The case, filed by bankrupt panel manufacturer Suniva Inc., would cause equipment prices to spike in the US and ...