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  Sharjah / Emirates Business Between September 22 and October 20, the Sharjah Environment and Protected Areas Authority (EPAA) confiscated 119 devices, because their owners had committed environmental offences in wilderness areas. EPAA work teams specialised in wilderness areas managed to file 12 different environmental offences during the period between August 23 and October 16. Nine of these offences were ...

  Sharjah / Emirates Business Sharjah’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) announced “Al-Dhaid Date festival” is now an annual event, as it described the event as one of the most significant in terms of reinforcing the role of heritage in creating an honorable and promising future for the central region of the UAE. The remarks were made during a ...

  Sharjah / Emirates Business Tilal Properties, a leading Sharjah-based real estate developer and the first to develop freehold and leasehold properties in the emirate, is set to showcase its flagship projects at Cityscape Jeddah 2016, taking place from November 2-4 at Jeddah Centre for Forums and Events. At the forefront of its participation, the latest updates, designs and progress ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Trade, the single window for cross-border trade and smart trading solutions, and Imdaad, a leading provider of integrated facilities management solutions in the GCC, have announced the integration of Imdaad’s website and Dubai Trade’s secured e-Payment gateway, ‘Rosoom’. Almost 3,000 of Imdaad’s customers can now process payments online eliminating the need to visit its ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the global financial services hub connecting businesses and institutions with emerging market opportunities across the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region, on Saturday announces the addition of Geneva-based Pictet Asset Management, a leading asset management company for institutional clients. A subsidiary of the Pictet Group, Pictet Asset Management ...

  Dubai / WAM In a nation-wide Can Collection Drive, the Emirates Environmental Group, collected on Saturday 6,250 kg of Aluminum Cans. Through this collection EEG has managed to mitigate 364 MTCO2 emissions and saved 589 cubic meters of landfill space. In its 20th year the Drive acts as a flagship programme to the Can Collection Campaign. The EEG organised and ...

  Des Moines / AFP Hillary Clinton embarks this weekend on the frenetic final 10 days of her White House campaign, determined to shake off renewed controversy over the FBI probe into her private emails. The 69-year-old Democrat—vying to become America’s first female president—is still the frontrunner to win the November 8 election over her Republican rival Donald Trump. Clinton has ...

  Manila / AFP Chinese vessels have left the contested Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, a Philippine official said on Saturday, less than a week after President Rodrigo Duterte visited Beijing pledging closer ties. The firebrand leader used the trip to vaunt his move away from traditional ally the United States in favour of Beijing—which was previously at ...

  Beijing / AFP Political concerns over the North Korean regime are stopping vital relief aid from reaching the victims of a major flood there, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said on Saturday. Nearly 70,000 people are estimated to have lost their homes in disastrous flooding in North Hamgyong province in August and September ...

  Madrid / AFP Spain turns the page on a 10-month political crisis on Saturday as lawmakers ready to vote the conservatives back in power, although at the head of a government with unprecedented opposition. Aided by divisions among his rivals, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is widely expected to win a crunch parliamentary confidence vote on Saturday evening which will see ...