Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) plans to build 64 132/11 kilovolt (kV) substations over the next three years, which will cost AED 6.7 bn, in cooperation with various developers in the Emirate. These new substations will be linked to existing electricity networks to enhance their capacity and efficiency. DEWA is committed to improving Dubai’s electricity and ...
Read More »Nearbuy launches UAE’s 3D virtual way-finder
RITIKA SHARMA / EMIRATES BUSINESS After being exasperatingly stuck in traffic, you head to a mall for that season-end sale. Confusion prevails while you try to locate the sale-offering store. The struggle starts to find the shortest and the sanest direction to reach your destination before the stock (and your enthusiasm) lasts. What you do next is reach out to ...
Read More »Amusement spots to draw 18mn tourists
Sunaina Rana / EMIRATES BUSINESS The phenomenal rise of educational play (or popularly known as ‘eduplay’ theme parks) has given a much-needed boost to the amusement industry in the UAE. This region has seen an exponential growth in the unique concept of ‘edutainment’, strategically combining the tenets of education with entertainment. The novel idea has attracted the interest of the ...
Read More »UAE economy strong growth
ABU DHABI / WAM While oil-exporting countries face significant challenges as result of global economic turbulences and falling oil prices, the UAE continues to achieve new levels of economic growth. This comes as a direct result of the UAE wise leadership’s forward-looking vision and its precise predictions of the region’s developments which contribute in facing growing global economic challenges, through ...
Read More »ADCB gets 2 awards
Abu Dhabi / EMIRATES BUSINESS Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) announced that it has recently won two prestigious Asian Banker awards; “Best Retail Bank in the UAE†and “Best Brand Initiative of the Year” across Asia, MEA, which was awarded to the Bank for its pioneering initiative “Ambition Visualizedâ€. ADCB received the awards during the Asian Banker Excellence in Retail ...
Read More »Now, an app to impart tech-vision to blind
ALKESH SHARMA / EMIRATES BUSINESS Imagine a day when you might face a low-vision challenge. How would you pair your outfit, choose the coffee brand at the supermarket or check the change at the grocery store? For 285 million people suffering from vision problems worldwide (as per the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness), these everyday tasks are really ...
Read More »Musanada delivers AED11bn devp projects
Throughout last year, Abu Dhabi General Services Company “Musanada†delivered 23 development projects with a total cost of approximately AED11.2 billion throughout Abu Dhabi across various sectors including housing, education, buildings, infrastructure, roads, healthcare, etc. “Being determined to serve the community honestly and transparently, Musanada is executing and managing scores of projects according to highest international standards and specifications,” stated ...
Read More »ADCB wins award for retail banking, brand initiative
Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) on Saturday announced that it has recently won two prestigious Asian Banker awards; “Best Retail Bank in the UAE†and “Best Brand Initiative of the Year†across Asia, Middle East and Africa, which was awarded to the Bank for its pioneering initiative “Ambition Visualizedâ€. ADCB received the awards during the ...
Read More »Sudan can become ‘food basket of Arabs’, says Al Mansouri
Abu Dhabi / WAM Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy, has stressed that Sudan is capable of becoming the food basket of the Arab region and called for joint efforts to promote promising investment opportunities in the country’s agriculture and food industry. He was speaking during a meeting with Ambassador of Sudan to the UAE, Mohammed Amin Abdullah ...
Read More »UAE to host ministerial economic and business confab in April
Dubai / WAM The Second Ministerial Economic and Business Conference (EBC II), a flagship programme of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA), will be held in Dubai from April 11-13 in conjunction with the Annual Investment Meeting (AIM) 2016. To be held under the theme of ‘SMEs and Innovation: Investing in a Sustainable Future’, EBC II will recognize the prospects ...
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