January, 2018

• 6 January

  ADNEC gears up to organise ADSW 2018 from Jan 13-20

  

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (ADNEC) is finalising preparations to host Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) 2018 and its co-located events including World Future Energy Summit (WFES), International Water Summit (IWS), Zayed Future Energy Prize award ceremony, the eighth session of International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Assembly, and the EcoWASTE exhibition. Held under the patronage ...

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• 6 January

  Emirates Engineering receives ISO certification

  

  Dubai / Emirates Business The calibration laboratory at Emirates Engineering has received the internationally recognised ISO 17025 accreditation making it one of the first players in aviation indu- -stry in region to achieve thisbenchmark and the first to obtain accreditation in electrical calibration. The certification was delivered by the Dubai Accreditation Department of Dubai Municipality. “Quality and accuracy are of ...

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• 6 January

  Dubai SME receives 456 entries from entrepreneurs

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai SME, the agency of Dubai Economy mandated to develop the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, announced that the evaluation of entries received for the 10th edition of the Mohammed bin Rashid Award for Young Business Leaders (YBL) is progressing. The award recognises exceptional and innovative projects in UAE and the Arab world by young ...

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• 6 January

  MOHAP launches ‘Art for Health’ competition

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) launched the ‘Art for Health’ competition to raise awareness on lifestyle-related medical conditions and tap into young people’s creativity and innovativeness, to help address the growing health issues in the country. The competition seeks to help realise objective of UAE Vision 2021 aimed at building a world-class health sector with ...

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• 6 January

  UAE students win excellence award in ICT contest

  SHENZHEN / WAM A UAE student team won the Excellence Prize in Huawei’s initiative ‘ICT Skill Competition.’ Al Bayt Mitwahid Association has joined hands with Huawei, in order to facilitate the UAE students’ participation in the competition, the final stage of which took place this week in Shenzhen in China, and the UAE team won the award. The competition was ...

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• 6 January

  Dubai Fitness Challenge inspires over a million people

  Dubai / Emirates Business The success of the recent Dubai Fitness Challenge (DFC), launched by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council of Dubai, has been reinforced, with research showing its transformative impact on habits and the extent to which the city and the wider UAE embraced ...

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• 6 January

  Trump seeks to open most US coastal waters to oil drilling

  

  Bloomberg The Trump administration is proposing to open almost all US coastal waters to oil drilling, including those off California and Florida where activists have fought for decades to spare delicate ecosystems from oil spills. The proposal will go far beyond President Donald Trump’s April order directing the Interior Department to consider auctioning oil and gas leases in the Arctic ...

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• 6 January

  OPEC oil cut adherence rises in December as Venezuela output slides

  

  LONDON / Reuters OPEC deepened compliance with an oil supply-cutting deal in December due to a further decline in Venezuelan output and extra cuts by Gulf exporters, a Reuters survey found, showing strong commitment to the deal despite higher prices. Adherence to the curbs rose to 128 percent from 125 percent in November, the survey found. The Organization of the ...

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• 6 January

  Aramco cuts February oil pricing to US

  

  Bloomberg Saudi Arabia cut February pricing for most of its crude sales to the US for a second month even as the world’s largest oil exporter ships record-low volumes to American buyers in an effort to help trim a global glut. While producers often reduce prices to stimulate sales, Saudi Arabia is cutting shipments to the US market to help ...

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• 6 January

  Spanish firm in talks for mega power deal in Brazil

  Bloomberg Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA is in final negotiations to supply about 700 megawatts of wind turbines for power plants in Brazil, according to people familiar with the talks. The deals are to supply equipment for projects that Voltalia SA, EDP Renovaveis SA, Enel Green Power SpA, and Neoenergia SA are developing in northeast Brazil, according to the people, ...

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