November, 2019

• 2 November

  Dubai Silicon Oasis, Intel launch new phase of Innovation Centre

  

  DUBAI / WAM Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), the integrated free zone technology park, and Intel, the Silicon Valley-headquartered tech giant, on Saturday announced the launch of the new phase of “Intel Innovation Centre” that is directly aligned with the “Project Mustakbal”, an initiative that was revealed by Intel during the event and seeks to further accelerate the Middle East’s game-changing ...

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• 2 November

  Abu Dhabi hosts confab on ‘medication safety’

  

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The 12th Medication Safety Conference 2019, organised by Synovetics, was held in Abu Dhabi, in collaboration with the American Society for Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) at the Dusit Thani Hotel. Around 800 participants attended the event that gathers renowned speakers in medication and patient safety from across the globe. The Medication Safety Conference delivers its ...

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• 2 November

  DPM celebrates UAE Flag Day

  ABU DHABI / Emirates Business HE Falah Al Ahbabi, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Department of Urban Planning and Municipalities (DPM), said the UAE Flag Day celebrations are a tribute of respect to our Founding Father, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who unified the Emirates 48 years ago. The event also reaffirms allegiance and respect to the ...

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• 2 November

  Sharjah a hub of investment in contemporary crafts

  

  Sharjah / Emirates Business His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, has said that Unesco’s selection of Sharjah as a ‘crafts and folk art’ city for the Creative Cities Network is a global endorsement of the emirate’s decades-long emphasis on bringing generations closer to their heritage and national identity, and carefully ...

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• 2 November

  VP, Mohamed launch ‘nation brand’ project

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, have launched a national project to create and design the UAE nation brand. His ...

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• 2 November

  UAE, US keen to bolster financial, economic, commercial relations

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM As part of the Ministry of Finance’s efforts to strengthen relations and develop financial and economic cooperation frameworks with other countries, Obaid Humaid Al Tayer, Minister of State for Financial Affairs, met Steven Mnuchin, US Treasury Secretary, in Abu Dhabi. Mubarak Rashed Al Mansoori, Governor of the Central Bank of the UAE, and a number of ...

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• 2 November

  UAE, Bulgaria to boost cooperation in multiple fields

  

  SOFIA / WAM A high-level United Arab Emirates delegation has concluded a successful trip to Bulgaria, with both nations agreeing to further advance bilateral relations. UAE Minister of State Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh led the high-level delegation to the Bulgarian capital Sofia in a bid to further develop bilateral cooperation in a number of fields. In meetings with Bulgarian counterparts, ...

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• 2 November

  Permian surge helps Exxon, Chevron weather oil slump

  

  Bloomberg America’s two biggest oil majors are leaning on booming shale production in the Permian Basin, the once-overlooked region in West Texas and New Mexico, to weather the gathering macroeconomic storm of lower oil demand, weak commodity prices and slowing global growth. Exxon Mobil Corp. said its production from the basin rose 70% in the third quarter compared with a ...

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• 2 November

  Russia’s daily oil output narrows gap over Opec+ cap

  

  Bloomberg Russia’s average daily oil production remained above its Opec+ target in October, though the compliance gap is the smallest since the Druzhba crude-contamination crisis earlier this year. The country pumped 47.49 million tons of crude and condensate last month, according to preliminary data from the Energy Ministry’s CDU-TEK unit. That equals a daily average of 11.229 million barrels, based ...

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• 2 November

  China’s LNG imports poised to drop

  

  Bloomberg China’s imports of liquefied natural gas are poised to drop for the first time in more than three years as buyers grapple with an outage at a key receiving terminal and hefty stockpiles. The world’s top buyer of natural gas imported 3.8 million tons of the fuel in LNG form October 1-30, according to berth data compiled by Bloomberg, ...

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