Dubai / WAM Hussein Nasser Lootah, Director-General of Dubai Municipality, opened the Historical Documents Centre in Shindagha. The centre, which contains more than 20,000 documents collected by the municipality, aims to have all the documents that tell the history of the Emirate of Dubai as well as of the nation. Lootah stressed DM’s continuous efforts in compiling these valuable documents ...

  Mumbai / Emirates Business The second edition of the premium real-estate exhibition, Dubai Property Show, concluded successfully at Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai with a phenomenal response from serious property buyers and investors from India. Reputed property developers and real estate companies from Dubai showcased a wide range of properties from lavish apartments to sprawling villas and from sophisticated ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler’s Representative in the Western Region, Abu Dhabi Ports on Thursday officially opened Sir Bani Yas Cruise Beach, offering cruise ship passengers a new beach destination with unmatched tourism experiences. The beach was officially inaugurated by His Excellency Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, ...

  Sharjah / Emirates Business Committed towards identifying young talent and empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs, Sheraa sponsored ten students to participate at the GlassQube Startup Weekend FinTech Hackathon in Abu Dhabi held recently. As part of the global movement coordinated by TechStars and supported by ‘Google for Entrepreneurs’, this year’s GlassQube Startup Weekend competition gathered developers, designers and ...

  Dubai / WAM The Thuraya Telecommunications Company has supplied books for classrooms in Lebanon, where displaced Syrian children are being helped to return to structured school life. Thuraya is supporting the Ana Aqra Association, a non-profit, non-sectarian, and non-political association that exists to respond to the educational, psycho-social and cultural needs of children in the early years of learning. Ana ...

  Dubai / WAM Wellbeing, positive education and the benefits of learning in nature will be the focus of a design-thinking workshop by the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) on Saturday. The workshop will be held at the Wellbeing Campus of the Hatta Development Project, an eco-tourism and learning initiative recently announced by Vice President and Prime Minister of the ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The Supreme Legislation Committee in the Emirate of Dubai (SLC) hosted recently a panel discussion titled the ‘Legislative Audit Guidelines for Proper Implementation of the Legislation in force in the Emirate of Dubai.’ During the sessions, 17 participating local government entities gained valuable insights on the legislative audit. This includes the rules and measures ...

  New York / AFP Donald Trump met with some of America’s most powerful tech executives in a bid to mend fences with a largely pro-Hillary Clinton industry and promote job creation and trade. The afternoon summit at Trump Tower in New York gathered some of the wealthiest and brightest brains in the tech industry around the same table as ...

  Washington / AFP New satellite imagery shows China has apparently installed “significant” defensive weapons on a series of artificial islands it built in the South China Sea, a US-based think tank said. Beijing has created seven islets in the Spratly Islands in recent years, built up from much smaller land protuberances and reefs. Although Beijing has said it does not ...

  Brussels / AFP British Prime Minister Theresa May urged her EU counterparts on Thursday to make Brexit “as smooth and orderly… as possible” as they prepared to discuss the process at a dinner without her. “We want that to be as smooth and orderly a process as possible. It is not just in our interests, it is in the interests ...