July, 2018

• 18 July

  Etihad Airways introduces live auction for seat upgrades

  

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Etihad Airways enhanced its upgrade offering to a dynamic live auction which will make it easier for customers to secure a premium seat in a higher cabin class. Customers will be able to take part in a bidding system where real-time notifications of their bid will be displayed on their screen, allowing two or more ...

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• 18 July

  Dubai records 119% growth in Chinese visitors since 2014

  

  DUBAI / WAM Ahead of President Xi Jinping of China’s arrival in the UAE later this week, Dubai Tourism reports continued growth in visitors from China. With a robust growth of 119 percent in overnight Chinese visitors since 2014 and a year on year increase of 41.4 percent overnight Chinese visitors to Dubai from 2016 to 2017 combined with a ...

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• 18 July

  Emirates adds more flights to France

  Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates on Wednesday announced that it will introduce two additional flights to Lyon and one to Paris per week, complementing its existing schedule and providing even more choice and convenience to travellers. The increase in frequency from five to seven between Lyon and Dubai will see the route become a daily service, while the extra flight ...

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• 18 July

  UAE reaffirms commitment to sustainable development

  

  New York / WAM The UAE presented its first ever Voluntary National Review (VNR), at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, providing a review of the country’s progress in implementing the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The presentation was delivered during the UN’s High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, the global gathering of decision-makers that has been ...

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• 18 July

  ‘VAT regulations maintain realty investment competitiveness’

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Federal Tax Authority (FTA), has called on persons dealing with commercial real estate to apply the basic Value Added Tax, VAT, rate of five percent on all sales and rent of such properties, urging buyers to pay the due VAT before proceeding with the transfer of ownership. The Authority had organised an awareness tour for ...

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• 18 July

  ERC distributes food, relief aid in Yemen

  Dhala / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) distributed 600 food baskets to undeprivileged families in the villages of Al-Arayef, Al-Worah and Al-Bajh across the Dhala governorate of Yemen. Nabil Al-Afeef, Dhala province deputy, and Mohamed Fadl Ismail, Director of the Dhala Governor’s Office, oversaw the distribution of the food aid. Al-Afeef expressed his appreciation for UAE’s humanitarian and relief support ...

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• 18 July

  Private sponsors can renew Daman basic health insurance online

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The National Health Insurance Company, Daman, has launched a new service that allows private sponsors to renew health insurance policies of family members and domestic staff online. The service is a significant upgrade over previous iteration, launched in 2016, which limited renewals to sponsored employees in eight professions, mostly domestic staff. During its trial phase, more ...

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• 18 July

  TRA gets ISO certificates

  Dubai / WAM The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), has been awarded three certificates by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), in the fields of Information Security Management, IT Service Management, and Energy Management. Hamad Obaid Al Mansoori, TRA Director-General, received the certificates during a meeting with Ahmad Al Khatib, General Manager of the British Standards Institution in the Middle East ...

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• 18 July

  UAE to host ‘Young Professionals in Space Conference 2019’

  

  Dubai / WAM The UAE, represented by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), will be hosting the 4th Young Professionals in Space Conference (YPS, 2019), from October, 28-31 2019. The announcement was made during this year’s YPS conference, currently being held in Barcelona, and comes in recognition of the UAE efforts to encourage youth in the field of space science ...

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• 18 July

  Trump yields to pressure in retreat from Putin remarks

  

  Bloomberg Donald Trump was still dug in, unwilling to back down a day after siding with Vladimir Putin over US intelligence agencies in accepting the Russian leader’s denial of interfering in the 2016 US presidential election. That changed after a meeting between the president and Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, according to a person familiar ...

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