April, 2016

• 26 April

  Region’s premium leather trade show gets underway

  

    Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business International and local tanneries, designers, suppliers, and leather manufacturers are sharing centre-stage this week, as the Middle East’s only dedicated leather industry trade show opened in Dubai on Tuesday. The three day event at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Leatherworld Middle East 2016 is featuring 70 exhibitors from 16 countries, all of ...

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• 26 April

  AED218.9 million housing loans, grants approved

  

    DUBAI / WAM The Sheikh Zayed Housing Programme has endorsed the names of 447 eligible citizens for housing loans and grants worth AED218.9 million, of which 317 will be loans and 130 grants. This was revealed during the third Board of Directors meeting of the programme chaired by Dr Abdullah Belhaiv Al Nuaimi, Minister of Infrastructure Development, and Chairman ...

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• 26 April

  Emaar Malls posts AED529mn profit

  

  DUBAI / WAM Emaar Malls (DFM: EMAARMALLS), the shopping malls and retail business majority-owned by global property developer Emaar Properties, reported first-quarter (January to March) 2016 net profit of AED 529 million (US$ 144 million), 22 percent higher than the Q1 2015 net profit of AED 433 million (US$ 118 million). Rental income for the first three months of the ...

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• 26 April

  ZonesCorp takes part in Hannover Industrial Fair

  

    ABU DHABI / WAM As part of its commitment to showcase and promote its investors, The Higher Corporation for Specialized Economic Zones (ZonesCorp), is leading a high level delegation of 19 industrial manufacturing companies to the prestigious ‘Hannover Messe’, the world’s largest industrial fair in Hannover, Germany, from April 25-29. The Hannover Messe is attended by the world’s leading ...

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• 26 April

  Dubai Tourism’s mechanism to track visitors’ satisfaction levels

  

    DUBAI / WAM Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism) has introduced a more advanced mechanism to measure and track the satisfaction levels of visitors to the city with various aspects of the destination offering from their time of arrival until departure. As part of its wider Dubai International Visitors Survey (DIVS), this module is designed to ...

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• 26 April

  ‘Pvt sector partners in devp’

  

      Dubai / WAM Dubai Crown Prince, His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has directed government entities in Dubai to adopt the “Dubai Endowment Brand” which was launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, to allow public and private organisations to participate in community ...

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• 26 April

  Mohamed briefed on Al Hosn Gas Project in Abu Dhabi

    Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, officially inaugurated, ADNOC’s Al Hosn Sour Gas Development Project, the largest of its kind in the world. During the tour of the Al Hosn Shah Sour Gas Development Project, Sheikh Mohamed was briefed on ...

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• 26 April

  ENEC, int’l experts discuss N-energy safety

  

    Abu Dhabi / WAM International experts have shared their thoughts at a presentation on safety in nuclear energy, organised by the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC). Naohiro Masuda, the President and Chief Decommissioning Officer of Fukushima Daiichi Decontamination and Decommissioning Engineering Company, and Tom Mitchell, former President and Chief Executive Officer of Ontario Power Generation, spoke on the subject in ...

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• 26 April

  Etihad Cargo adds additional freighter services to Mideast

    Abu Dhabi / WAM Etihad Cargo, the freight division of the national carrier Etihad Airways, expanded its Middle East network to Kuwait by adding an additional freighter and introduced a new twice weekly service into Muscat in Oman. The twice weekly A330 freighter service to Kuwait and the new operations on an A330 freighter to Muscat have commenced and are ...

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• 26 April

  55 government entities take part in ADERP Users Forum

    Abu Dhabi / WAM Fifty-five government entities that fund their operational and capital operations through the general budget of Abu Dhabi Government, represented by more than 750 employees and system users, participated in the third Abu Dhabi Enterprise Resource Planning System (ADERP) Users Forum, organised by the Department of Finance – Abu Dhabi (DoF). The event, organised in coordination with ...

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