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Dubai / Emirates Busines The rate of growth in total non-oil private sector business activity in Dubai accelerated for the fourth time in the first five months of 2019, according to Emirates NBD Dubai Economy Tracker Index. The composite indicator designed to give an overview of operating conditions in the non-oil private sector rose to a 52-month high of 58.5 ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (Adek), has begun implementing the Education Partnership Schools (EPS), programme, which creates charter schools funded by the government and run by the private sector. The EPS programme is one of the initiatives launched by the Abu Dhabi Government Accelerators Programme “Ghadan 21” under its social pillar, which will ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), participated in the 63rd UITP Global Public Transport Summit held in Stockholm, Sweden under the theme “Art of Public Transport”. Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the RTA, headed RTA’s delegation at the event. The summit, which takes place every two years, was a ...

ABU DHABI / WAM As part of its plan to modernise work mechanisms in the federal government, the UAE Cabinet has restructured the Board of Directors of the Emirates Development Bank (EDB). The eight-member board will be chaired by Obaid bin Humaid Al Tayer, Minister of State for Financial Affairs, and will serve a three-year term. The EDB was established ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Etisalat on Saturday announced the launch of ‘Roam Like Home’ (RLH) services that enable Freedom postpaid customers to continue enjoying local allowances while travelling outside the country. With Etisalat’s new roaming options, customers can enjoy a seamless roaming experience. Freedom postpaid customers can choose from Data only at AED100, Voice only at AED200, and Voice ...

New Delhi / WAM The UAE Ambassador to India, Dr Ahmed Abdulrahman Al Banna, has met with India’s new Minister for Civil Aviation, Hardeep Singh Puri, and discussed pressing issues relating to cooperation between the two countries in civil aviation. This was the first face-to-face interaction from the UAE side with a member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Council of ...

Sofia / WAM Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Boyko Borissov met His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. During the meeting which came as part of Sheikh Abdullah’s state visit to Bulgaria, Borissov and Sheikh Abdullah discussed bilateral relations between the UAE and Bulgaria and ways to enhance them in a number of ...

LUXEMBOURG / WAM Obaid bin Humaid Al Tayer, Minister of State for Financial Affairs, met his counterpart Harris Georgiades, Minister of Finance of Cyprus, to discuss ways of enhancing cooperation between the two friendly countries, which extends for more than 50 years. The meeting was held during a visit by a UAE Ministry of Finance (MoF), delegation to Luxembourg. During ...

Sofia / WAM Actors that seek to destabilise the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) with their backwards, extremist stances, impede the region’s ultimate development goals, said HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. “We depend on friendly nations, like that of Bulgaria, to confront with us the fascist regimes that seek to ...

Sofia / WAM The Bulgarian Foreign Minister hailed the opening of the UAE embassy in Bulgaria as a step forward toward further bolstering trade, economic, and investment relations between the two countries. In statements to the Emirates News Agency (WAM), on the sidelines of the Sixth News Agencies World Congress in the Bulgarian capital Sophia, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of ...