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Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates is kicking off the summer season with special fares to the Philippines. UAE travellers can now enjoy competitive fares from June to August 2018. Travellers can book starting on Monday until June 24 to avail the special offers. Economy Class passengers can enjoy fares to Manila starting at AED 2,315, Clark starting at AED 2,225 ...

New York / WAM Sarah bin Yousef Al Amiri, Minister of State for Advanced Sciences, has headed the UAE delegation to the Third Annual Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), convened by Marie Chatardova, President of the UN Economic and Social Council. Various stakeholders discussed ways in which science, technology, and innovation can ...

Sharjah / WAM HH Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, Chairperson of the Supreme Council for Family Affairs and wife of HH the Ruler of Sharjah, has made a strong call for a renewed global commitment urging greater cooperation among world leaders, decision makers, humanitarian organisations and civil society to protect children from being pushed into the world of forced ...

Dubai / WAM The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MoCCAE), has launched the National Plan of Action (NPOA), for the Conservation and Management of Sharks 2018-2021 that presents concrete steps to promote shark conservation and sustainability in the UAE. The plan has four main objectives: enhancing knowledge of shark species and their role in the ecosystem among the population, ...

Dubai / WAM The Federal Authority for Government Human Resources has announced that the Eid Al Fitr holiday for federal entities in the UAE will begin on Thursday 29th Ramadan (corresponding to June 14), until 3rd Shawwal, which is yet to be declared. The Authority conveyed its greetings to President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, His Highness ...

Dubai / WAM Smart Dubai launched the ‘Zakat Al-Fitr’ service on its flagship Dubai Now application, in an effort to embrace technology and provide best-in-class services to customers, in line with the spirit of the Year of Zayed. Dubai Now is an integrated platform, offering 61 smart services from 28 government, semi-governmental and private entities, which targets 11 different customer ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), approved an AED40 million concessionary loan for the development of a rural electrification project in Kalongo, Uganda. Mohammed Saif Al Suwaidi, Director-General of ADFD, and Ajedra Gabriel Gadison Aridru, Uganda’s Minister of State for Finance Planning and Economic Development, signed the loan agreement at the ADFD headquarters in Abu ...

Bloomberg India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp., which once had $4.3 billion of funds, is now bleeding cash. The state-run company’s cash reserves have shrunk by more than 90 percent in the past year, after it was ordered to purchase the administration’s stake in a refiner and it paid a record dividend. ONGC’s reserves dropped to about 10 billion rupees ...

Bloomberg As the UK government works to exit the European Union, the nation’s electric utilities are working to get closer. Power already flows between the UK, France, Ireland and Northern Ireland through four interconnector cables, and work is under way to more than quadruple the capacity of those links. The cables will establish a stronger physical tie with the continent ...

Bloomberg Botswana’s sole operating coal mine will increase output almost threefold within seven years as it eyes export opportunities created by a shortage of the fuel that’s used to fire most of southern Africa’s power plants. Morupule Coal Mine in the east of the country will ramp up annual production to 8 million metric tonnes by 2025 from 2.8 million ...