December, 2020

• 7 December

  Kazakh envoy lauds strong bilateral ties with UAE

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Menilbekov Madiyar, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the UAE, highlighted the strong bilateral ties between the UAE and his country, noting that the UAE is Kazakhstan’s leading strategic, trade and economic partner in the Arab region, most notably in the petrochemical, energy, transport, logistical services, agriculture and space sectors. In an interview with Emirates News Agency on ...

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• 7 December

  Dubai Economy-Zoho tie-up benefits 500 Dubai businesses

  

  DUBAI / WAM The Business Registration and Licensing (BRL) sector of Dubai Economy announced that more than 500 businesses in Dubai have benefited from its partnership programme with Zoho, as registered companies can now run their sales, support, finance, IT, and other business functions using the Zoho One suite of apps. Dubai Economy and Zoho signed a Memorandum of Understanding ...

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• 7 December

  Expo 2020 countdown clock starts ticking

  

  DUBAI / WAM With exactly 300 days to go until the UAE welcomes the world to Expo 2020, Swatch, the event’s official timing provider, has kicked off the final leg of the journey to the next World Expo with the launch of a countdown clock at the Dubai Frame. At a virtual event, Swatch introduced the official Expo 2020 Dubai ...

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• 7 December

  du launches two new facilities

  SHARJAH / WAM du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), has revealed that two state-of-the-art data centers will officially open in Q1 2021 to support UAE government and financial organizations seeking to outsource their data center requirements through a managed service provider. The announcement was made during Gitex Technology Week, which is taking place at Dubai World Trade Center (DWTC) ...

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• 7 December

  UAE rulers wish Finnish president on Independence Day

  ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has sent a message of congratulations to President Sauli Niinisto of Finland, on the occasion of his country’s Independence Day, which is marked on December 06. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai; and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed ...

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• 7 December

  UAE takes steps to establish itself as global hub for gold

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM Chaired by HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, the Ministerial Development Council has confirmed that the UAE government is keen to strengthen the non-oil sectors by encouraging innovation, updating legislation and regulatory frameworks, and encouraging sectors with high added value in a way that advances business environment ...

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• 7 December

  DHA launches medical supplies system at Gitex

  

  DUBAI / WAM The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) in collaboration with Smart Dubai launched on Sunday at the 40th Gitex Technology Week, a state-of-the-art fully automated paperless Drugs and Medical Supplies Management System known as Tarmeez making it the first government entity in the region to implement the international standard. During the launch ceremony, Humaid Al Qutami, Director General of ...

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• 7 December

  Ministry to hold more virtual meetings

  

  DUBAI / WAM The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (Mohre) announced that it will hold more on-site and virtual meetings with Emirati citizens working for private sector companies at their workplaces, to monitor their situations. The visits are part of the work of a committee formed by the ministry in March 2020 to support the employment stability of UAE ...

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• 7 December

  Dubai district cooling firms to reduce ‘fuel surcharge’

  

  DUBAI / WAM HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, has directed all district cooling companies to reduce the fuel surcharge for electricity from 6.5 to 5 fils for kilowatt hour and for water from 0.6 to 0.4 fils for Imperial Gallon, and to fully implement this reduction in their customers’ bills ...

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• 7 December

  World’s top energy exporter starts preparing for life after fossil fuels

  

  Bloomberg The Finance Ministry of the world’s biggest energy exporter has started preparing for the possibility of lower budget revenues in case global oil demand declines sooner than expected. “The peak of consumption may have already passed,” Deputy Finance Minister Vladimir Kolychev said in an interview in Moscow. “The risk is rising in the longer term” that hydrocarbon revenues could ...

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