April, 2019

• 20 April

  Trakhees receives 5 ISO certifications

  

  DUBAI / WAM Trakhees, the regulatory arm of Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation (PCFC), in Dubai has received five ISO certifications in complaints handling, quality management, IT management, environment management and HS management. Adnan Al Abbar, CEO of Trakhees, expressed his happiness for this achievement and confirmed Trakhees incessant efforts within its 2019-2021 plan to give more focus to ...

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• 20 April

  Role of AI to boost Dubai’s status as a future global city discussed

  

  DUBAI / WAM Chaired by Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, the Dubai Future Council on Artificial Intelligence discussed at its first meeting plans and trends to strengthen Dubai’s position and leadership in future sectors and how the role of artificial intelligence will further enhance Dubai’s status as a future global city. One of 13 Councils ...

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• 20 April

  Reem Al Hashemy tours food distribution centres at Rohingya refugee camps

  

  DHAKA / WAM Reem bint Ibrahim Al Hashemy, Minister of State for International Cooperation, has got first-hand knowledge of the humanitarian conditions at the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, during her meeting with UN officials in Bangladesh. The minister, along with her accompanying delegation, toured the camps’ food distribution centres where the World Food Programme (WFP) has scaled up ...

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• 20 April

  Mint ME launches new digital marketplace products in UAE

  

  Dubai / Emirates Business Mint Middle East (MME) is reinventing online shopping and payments in the UAE and the region with three new products. Three products — GoMart, Marakez and MintPay — will foray into the country with the aim to taking consumer experience with online shopping to a new level, offering an integrated secure payments gateway that completes a ...

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• 20 April

  374 beneficiaries get AED26m from marriage grants during Q1

  Dubai / WAM The Ministry of Community Development has approved the names of 374 beneficiaries from the marriage grants during the first quarter of 2019 with a total amount of over AED26.2 million that were disbursed to the beneficiaries and transferred to their bank accounts and notified through SMS text messages. AED70,000 will be disbursed as one payment for those ...

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• 20 April

  du, DED celebrate major milestone for Dubai Pulse

  Dubai / WAM du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), announced that the inaugural Dubai Pulse customer, the Department of Economic Development (DED), in Dubai, has successfully migrated all of their data centres and applications to the cloud-based platform. Launched by the Smart Dubai Office in partnership with du, Dubai Pulse offers virtual solutions to cater to web, application, database ...

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• 20 April

  ERC sponsors wedding for200 couples in Aden

  Aden / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), organised the second group wedding for 200 couples in 11 Yemeni Governorates, as part of the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, to hold a series of weddings which will benefit 2200 young people. ...

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• 20 April

  Geltec opens AED10mn factory at DP World

  

  Dubai / Emirates Business His Excellency Dr Amin Hussein Al Amiri, Assistant Undersecretary for Public Health Policy and Licensing, Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP), inaugurated the new plant for Geltec that manufactures dietary supplements and medicines at the National Industries Park (NIP) of DP World. The opening ceremony was attended by Ahmad Al Haddad, Chief Operating Officer, Parks and ...

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• 20 April

  Sharjah invites Chinese investors to explore economic capacity

  

  Sharjah / WAM The Sharjah FDI Office, Invest in Sharjah, in collaboration with the Chinese Business Council, organised the Sharjah–China “Belt & Road” Business Round Table at the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The Chinese delegation of 140 businesspersons was led by Lei JIN, Economic and Commercial Counsellor of the Consulate-General of the People’s Republic of China, and Shaoguo ...

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• 20 April

  UAE embassy in Italy opens Afghan hand-woven carpets exhibition

  

  ROME / WAM The UAE Embassy in Italy opened the Afghan hand-woven carpets exhibition under the theme ”Empowering Afghan women for more shining future” at San Giovanni Battista dei Genovesi in central Rome. The exhibition is being held under the Fatima bint Mohamed bin Zayed Initiative (FBMI), which offers a unique and creative approach by employing Afghan women in the handmade ...

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