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DUBAI / WAM Dubai Investments PJSC DFM: DIC, the leading, diversified investments company listed on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM), announced that its wholly owned real estate subsidiary, Dubai Investments Real Estate Company (DIRC), won the prestigious ISO 9001:2015 certification for its quality management system. The ISO certification, received from the Russian Register and IQ Net international certification network, is ...

SHARJAH / WAM The Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), and a delegation from the Sharjah Police have discussed ways to develop a number of special procedures for the used car trade sector, which falls within the jurisdiction of the Sharjah Police. The meeting, which was held at the SCCI headquarters, was also attended by representatives from the Used ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has again invited Dubai’s citizens and residents to benefit from the Shams Dubai smart initiative, following the outstanding success and the great adoption rate the initiative has achieved since its launch. Shams Dubai encourages DEWA customers to install solar photovoltaic panels on the roofs of their premises to generate electricity from ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Thanks to the far-sighted vision of the late Founding Father, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the UAE has become a symbol of humanity and fraternity as well as an icon of tolerance and giving that extended to people regardless of their origin, race, colour, sex, religion or faith, culture, and doctrine or sect, stated Sheikh ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Small business owners are confident the remainder of 2018 will be a period of strong growth. A new MEED survey of 75 of the UAE’s top SMEs conducted shows more than 60% are confident of achieving as much as 20% growth compared to their performance last year. For 13% of the respondents, an even more robust ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Police have announced positive results in traffic safety during the four months of the year with a reduction in general traffic accidents by 11 percent, fatalities by 22 percent, serious injuries by 14 percent and run-over deaths by 50 percent despite an 11 percent increase in the number of vehicles and 6 percent in ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai has won the bid to host the 12th World Chambers Congress (WCC) in 2021, which will see the participation of 14,000 chambers of commerce from 100 countries. The 12th WCC will be held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of ...

Bloomberg Royal Dutch Shell Plc is attempting to market some of its natural gas as clean energy, packaging it with credits for eco-friendly projects that offset pollution coming from the fuel. The oil giant is offering business customers in Europe a combination of gas and certificates that show emissions are offset with financing for carbon-reduction projects. It’s testing markets in ...

Bloomberg South Africa plans to invite bidders for additional renewable power projects that may amount to as much as 50 billion rand ($4 billion) of investment and help stimulate local and black-owned business. The fifth bid window for 1,800 megawatts of renewable projects under the government’s independent power producers program will start in November, according to a copy of Energy ...

Bloomberg US natural gas futures are having their best May rally since 2010 as hot weather boosts demand for the power plant fuel, slowing efforts to refill depleted inventories. Prices rose to a four-month high after the Energy Information Administration reported inventories rose by 96 billion cubic feet last week to 1.725 trillion. The median estimate by analysts predicted a ...