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  Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) won ten gold and silver awards at the 13th annual International Business Awards, also known as the “Stevie” Awards. The winners will be honoured during a ceremony in Rome on 21st October. DEWA’s Customer Happiness Division won three Golden Awards in the Best Customer Service category. Abdullah Al Hajri, Executive Vice ...

  RAS AL KHAIMAH / WAM The Federal Electricity and Water Authority (FEWA) will build a solar power plant with capacity to produce 200 megawatts of energy and upgrade power grids by 2025 to meet the increasing demand, said Mohammed Saleh, Director-General of the authority. In a statement to Emirates News Agency (WAM), Saleh said the authority spent AED2.7 billion to ...

  Sharjah / WAM Bee’ah, the Sharjah Environment Company, has invited schools to register for the 7th Sharjah Environment Awareness Award (SEAA) and the 4th Inter-School Recycling Competition (IRSC) for the academic year, 2016-2017. Directed by the vision of H.H. Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah to disseminate a culture of environmental awareness ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Airport International Group (AIG) – a consortium led by Abu Dhabi-based financial services company Invest AD, the Abu Dhabi Investment Company, completed the second phase of a project to rehabilitate, expand and operate Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA) in Amman, Jordan. The inauguration ceremony was conducted in the presence of the Crown Prince of Jordan HRH ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has begun implementing a new initiative that aims to promote happiness among TRA employees and create a positive atmosphere in the workplace through cooperation, trust and love, which is expected to help strengthen the positive relations among employees, develop concern for each other’s issues and motivate them to excel in ...

  Beirut / AFP Beijing came under pressure at an Asian summit on Wednesday over its “illegal” island-building in the South China Sea, after the Philippines produced photos it said showed fresh construction activity at a flashpoint shoal. Any artificial island at Scarborough Shoal could be a game-changer in China’s quest to control the South China Sea and raises the risk ...

  Strasbourg / AFP Turkey’s foreign minister on Wednesday pledged cooperation with the top European rights watchdog to ensure the effort to bring the leaders of July’s failed coup to justice is clear and straightforward. “We (will) cooperate with the Council of Europe to make this process very transparent,” said Mevlut Cavusoglu, after meeting in Strasbourg with the group’s head ...

  Tbilisi / AFP NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday said ex-Soviet Georgia has moved closer to membership, in a show of support for the tiny Caucasus nation despite fierce opposition from Russia. “You are continuing to strengthen your democracy and civic institutions and this has helped Georgia to move closer to NATO,” Stoltenberg told a news conference after ...

  El Fasher /AFP President Omar al-Bashir on Wednesday declared that peace had returned to Sudan’s war-torn Darfur despite a deadlock in African Union-brokered ceasefire talks and persistent fighting that has driven thousands from their homes this year. Bashir made the declaration in the North Darfur state capital El Fasher at a ceremony attended by Qatari emir Sheikh Tamim bin ...

  Sittwe / AFP People forced from their homes by religious violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state gathered on Wednesday to meet former UN chief Kofi Annan, as the envoy toured displacement camps during his peace mission. Annan has been asked by the leader of Myanmar’s new government, Aung San Suu Kyi, to head a commission tasked with trying to heal ...