January, 2017

• 21 January

  Dubai Customs scores 96.2% on happiness index

    Dubai / WAM Dubai Customs scored an overall 96.2 percent on Dubai Smart Office’s happiness meter. Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DP World said he is happy with the result of this important evaluation that covered the website, the services and customs centers. “I am happy with this result which reflects the great level ...

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• 21 January

  DEWA-Masdar Institute project qualifies for 2nd ‘UAE Drones for Good Award’

    Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (Masdar Institute) have qualified for the second UAE Drones for Good Award based on their joint efforts to develop drone technology. The Award was launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler ...

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• 21 January

  Abu Dhabi Ports delivers IALA certified courses to local maritime entities

    Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Ports, one of nine organisations to offer certified courses by the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation & Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) worldwide, conducted the IALA Aids to Navigation (AtoN) Level-2 training course to the first group of external trainees from entities that provide maritime and offshore services in the UAE. The training course ...

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• 21 January

  Hatta Hospital receives international accreditation from JCI

  

    Dubai / WAM The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) announced that Hatta Hospital received international accreditation from the Joint Commission International (JCI) on Thursday. Hatta Hospital now joins a list of DHA facilities that received the accreditation, which include 10 Primary Health Care Centers; Nad Al Hamar, Al Badaa, Al Barsha, Al Khawaneej, Al Safa, Al Twar, Al Mizhar, Al Mankhool, ...

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• 21 January

  Sharjah population crosses 1.4 million mark in 2015

  

    Dubai / WAM The Sharjah’s overall population is 1,405,843 people, according to results of the Sharjah Census 2015. “There are 175,432 Emirati nationals – 86,325 males and 89,098 females – who constitute 12 percent of the overall population. The number of non-national residents is 1,230,417, – 834,542 males and 395,875 females – who form 87 percent of the overall population, ...

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• 21 January

  Ohood Al Roumi urges private sector to launch humanitarian initiatives

    Dubai / WAM Ohood bint Khalfan Al Roumi, Minister of State for Happiness, has urged the private sector to launch humanitarian initiatives to improve the public’s access to medical services, lauding Thumbay Group’s Happiness Hour initiative. The programme will see the group offer free medical consultations for patients in their hospitals and clinics across the UAE for one hour every ...

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• 21 January

  DED cracks down on illegal money transfer

  Dubai / WAM The Department of Economic Development (DED) in Dubai has fined 25 shops in the emirate on a single day for engaging in unauthorised activities and illegal money transactions. The shops were found to have enticed Bangladeshi expatriates with the offer of cheaper money transfers to their home country with the help of an app called ‘Bkash.’ “DED acted ...

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• 21 January

  RTA finishes 30 percent work on AED404mn Airport Street project

  

    Dubai / WAM Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced the completion of 30 percent of the first contract for the improvement of Airport Street involving the construction of Rashidiya and Casablanca interchanges. The completion rate has reached 25 percent in other contract covering Nad Al Hamar and ...

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• 21 January

  The waterbeetle of American politics

  

    Leaving aside the missing element of grace and the improbability of his ever stopping to think, Donald Trump is the waterbeetle of politics. His feral cunning in manipulating the masses and the media is, like the waterbeetle’s facility, instinctive. The 72 days of transition demonstrated a stylistic seamlessness with his 511 days of campaigning, which indicates that the 1,461 ...

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• 21 January

  Party’s over for British retail

  

    After the Brexit vote, Christmas was always going to be the British consumer’s last hurrah. Official data today makes it look like the party never even got started. The volume of goods sold in December fell 1.9 percent from November, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday, the biggest drop since April 2012. This bad news is at ...

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