Business & Money | Saturday 4 March, 2017 2:51 pm

AnchorLloyd’s CEO discusses 2017 Middle East insurance challenges and opportunities

  Cyber threats are the most critical and rapidly evolving risk facing business in 2017   Inga Beale, CEO, Lloyd’s, met with H.E Essa Kazim, Governor of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and Chairman of Dubai Financial Market (DFM) earlier this...

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Government | Saturday 4 March, 2017 2:40 pm

Awqaf and Minors Affairs Foundation Inaugurates Endowment Residential Project in Al Warqaa

Project Funded by Late Hamel bin Khadem Al Ghaith Al Qubaisi’s Endowment Comprises 72 Apartments  Awqaf and Minors Affairs Foundation (AMAF) has inaugurated its new endowment residential project in Al Warqaa area in Dubai, funded by the endowment of the late Emirati philanthropist...

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Environment & Energy | Saturday 4 March, 2017 2:37 pm

Tadweer Celebrates National Environment Day and Gulf Environment Week

Tadweer (The Center of Waste Management – Abu Dhabi) celebrated the National Environment Day and Gulf Environment Week by organizing workshops at a number of government entities and private and public schools, including the US Embassy, the Emirates Red Crescent, Corniche Hospital, Al Khatim...

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Business & Money | Saturday 4 March, 2017 2:23 pm

EXHIBITION OF MARINE-INSPIRED ART COLLECTION MAKES WORLD DEBUT AT DUBAI INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW

Bohemian crystal artworks treasured by Bill Clinton, Elton John, royal families and Russian oligarchs find major interest among GCC buyers   Nestled among the superyachts and myriad other craft at the 25th Dubai International Boat Show, a unique marine-inspired art gallery has made a...

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Culture & Education | Saturday 4 March, 2017 8:41 am

Saudi Arabia to open 3 Arabic-language institutes in Indonesia

Saudi Arabia is planning to establish Arabic-language institutions in the three major Indonesian cities of Makassar, Medan and Surabaya, said Saudi Ambassador Osama Mohammed Abdullah Al-Shuaibi. The envoy said the goal is to help Indonesians improve their Arabic-language skills, and the...

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Business & Money | Saturday 4 March, 2017 8:19 am

KSA readies road map to combat cyber terror

Statistics presented at the second international cyber security conference in Riyadh have highlighted the enormity of cyber attacks being suffered by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Cooperation Council states. During the two-day conference, which was patronized by Vicegerent Crown Prince Muhammed...

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Business & Money | Saturday 4 March, 2017 8:15 am

SWCC may stop giving free water to NWC

 The Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC), which will soon be privatized, is presently considering a study to sell desalinated water to the National Water Company (NWC), Makkah daily reported on Wednesday. A source at the NWC said the SWCC has so far been providing water to the...

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Business & Money | Saturday 4 March, 2017 8:00 am

KSA INVESTMENT CONTINUES TO FLOW INTO TURKEY DESPITE CONCERNS

Investors from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have emerged as the largest GCC real estate investor in Turkey and the third largest among foreign investors. Buyers from Iraq (in first place), Saudi Arabia (3rd), Kuwait (4th), Qatar (7th) and Bahrain (10th) emerged among the top 10 foreign buyers in the ...

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Business & Money | Saturday 4 March, 2017 7:51 am

“New Coalition Forms to Drive Leadership in Strategic Initiative Management“

Agile Alliance, The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and Project Management Institute (PMI), today announced the formation of a coalition dedicated to becoming the leading authority on strategic initiative management with the aim of helping enterprises reduce the failure rate of large-scale strategic ...

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Technology & IT | Saturday 4 March, 2017 7:45 am

United Nations Foundation and GSMA Team Up to Support Data for Good

The United Nations Foundation and the GSMA announced a partnership today at Mobile World Congress that leverages their shared objective to unlock the power of data for good, specifically to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). “Better use of the data generated from ...

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