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ABU DHABI / WAM Dr Abdul Rahman bin Mohammad bin Nasser Al Owais, Minister of Health and Prevention, said: “The UAE, five months after the detection of the first Covid-19 case, has become an inspirational model to be followed for proactive measures and effective crisis management.” The minister’s remarks came at the UAE government’s regular media briefing where he, along ...

DUBAI / WAM Union Coop has revealed that the completion rate of its commercial centre project in the Al-Bada’a area, Dubai, which costs nearly 40 million, has reached about 20 percent. The project comes from Union Coop’s endeavour to achieve one of its most important strategic goals, which is the strategic expansion and increasing its outreach to serve members of ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) announced on Thursday that a selected number of museums and cultural sites in the emirate are ready to welcoming visitors starting June 24. Strict health and safety guidelines and precautionary measures were implemented in the selected sites to support community recovery after the long ...

DUBAI / WAM Mercuria Energy Group, the Swiss international commodity trading company, has renewed the lease on their Middle East headquarters at DMCC for another five years. DMCC – the world’s flagship Free Zone and Government of Dubai Authority on commodities trade and enterprise – has been home to Mercuria Energy Group for over 11 years, and acts as the ...

Bloomberg Chevron Corp will start a sales process for its interest in the North West Shelf project in Australia, one of the nation’s first liquefied natural gas export ventures, after receiving a number of approaches from potential buyers. The US energy major has been looking to make cutbacks as the industry grapples with a once-in-a-generation collapse in demand because of ...

Bloomberg China boosted its budget for renewable power subsidies to 92.36 billion yuan ($13 billion), 7.5% more than it spent last year. Solar power is the big winner, with incentives set to rise 14% compared to last year’s level, while wind payments will be 3.2% lower, the Ministry of Finance said on its website. The subsidy budget would cover existing ...

Bloomberg Former National Security Advisor John Bolton writes in a new book that President Donald Trump asked Chinese leader Xi Jinping to help him win re-election by buying more US farm products, according to an excerpt published by the Wall Street Journal. The disclosure is part of a devastating portrayal of Trump’s conduct of foreign policy by Bolton, the most ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi Digital Authority (Adda), the government entity that leads the digital transformation in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Intel aimed at expanding their strategic partnership and boosting cooperation, especially in the field of accelerating digital transformation in Abu Dhabi. The MoU was signed remotely ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Global energy giants representing the world’s leading oil, gas, and petrochemical companies united around the common purpose of ensuring sustainable global energy supplies as economies begin to reopen and the world adjusts to the next normal, during a special virtual edition of the Abu Dhabi CEO Roundtable. The CEOs shared lessons learned and best practices in ...

Dubai / WAM Enoc Group has recorded 12 million cashless transactions in the first five months of this year, in a move towards encouraging cashless payments, one of the key pillars of the UAE Vision 2021. The group recorded an increase in cashless transactions when compared to cash payments during the same period. More than 5 million cashless transactions were ...