Sharjah / WAM Over 2,300 officials are participating this year in the Rationalisation Hour initiative launched two years ago by the Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority (SEWA), and approved by HH Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah. Accordingly, 2.30pm to 3.30pm the peak hour of electricity usage is observed as Rationalisation Hour ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM A total of 34,250 children have benefited from the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), Eid clothes project worth about AED 3 million within the UAE, and in 60 countries around the world. The value of the ERC’s Eid clothes donations within the country reached AED1.4 million, which benefitted 2,500 orphaned children and children in need. The value ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Greenline Interiors (GLI), part of the Greenline Group, has won the AED 140 million contracts for the Wafi Hotel project in Dubai and Shaza Hotel in Riyadh. The projects will see GLI bringing its superior fit-out services to Riyadh and Dubai, where the company has also recently been awarded the Bay View Hotel and Jewel of ...

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 ...