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Dulsco opens new material recovery facility in Dubai

Located at Ras Al Khor, the new recycling processing plant has a capacity of 80,000 tonnes per year

UAE’s Amanat acquires majority stake in Sukoon

Mubadala Health to enter Dubai with new medical facility in Jumeirah

The 125,000 square-foot Mubadala Health day surgery and medical facility is scheduled to open in Q3 in 2022

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Dubai’s e-trader license records 6% growth during 2021

The total number of e-trader licences issued in 2021 reached 6,217

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority

Dubai’s energy demand grows 10% y-on-y in 2021

Energy demand in 2021 reached 50,202 gigawatt-hours compared to 45,712 gigawatt-hours in 2020

Dubai Healthcare City partners with Korea’s Asan Medical Center

The agreement will see Asan–UAE Gastroenterology Hospital open in Dubai Healthcare City Phase 2

Arab Health

Arab Health 2022 and Medlab Middle East begins at Dubai World Trade Centre

More than 60,000 attendees are expected across the four days of both shows, with almost 4,000 exhibitors having confirmed their participation

Eslam Hussein, CEO and co-founder of invygo

The SME Story: Eslam Hussein, CEO and co-founder of invygo

Invygo, a monthly car subscription company, has been through some of the region’s most prominent accelerator programmes

VFS visas dubai abu dhabi

VFS announces new timings for application centres in Dubai and Abu Dhabi

The centres will now operate between 9am-5pm from Monday-Friday

Hatta Master Development Plan

Sheikh Hamdan forms Supreme Committee to oversee development of Hatta

The committee serves for a renewable period of three years, and is subject to an extension based on the recommendation of its chairman made to the Crown Prince of Dubai

Covid-19 testing centre dubai

Dubai: Three new 24×7 drive-through Covid-19 testing centres open

Located at Al Mankhool, Nad Al Sheba and Nad Al Hammar, each of them has a capacity of 1,500 examinations per day

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UAE’s Property Finder acquires proptech firm Homevalue

Fouad Bekkar, founder and CEO of Homevalue has joined Property Finder and takes on the role of vice president in charge of data and AI

Emirates Dubai USA

Dubai’s Emirates suspends flights to nine US destinations

The airline cited operational concerns with the planned deployment of 5G mobile network services at certain airports in the US

Dubai: DP World’s new platform to facilitate paperless trade

Cargoes Customs provides an intelligence-enabled, unified customs operating model that optimises border management and revenue collection activities

Yasser Abdul Malak, Chairman & CEO of Nestle Middle East & North Africa

Yasser Abdul Malak appointed as MENA chairman and CEO of Nestlé

Nestlé MENA employs over 15,000 people in 19 countries, operates 25 factories , and achieved annual sales of nearly $3bn in 2020

Emirates Burj Khalifa Dubai

Video: Emirates releases behind-the-scenes footage of latest Burj Khalifa promo in Dubai

The flypast involved the A380 flying at an altitude of only 2,700 feet, the exact height of Burj Khalifa, at a very low speed of 145 knots

Dubai Palm Jumeirah

Sharjah’s Arada enters Dubai property market, purchases Dhs240m land at Palm Jumeirah

The 20,500 square metre plot located on The Palm’s East Crescent has been bought from Nakheel

Salik

Moelis wins another top Dubai IPO role with Salik mandate

The toll system could add additional banks before the listing

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park

Production in Dubai’s Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park increases to 330MW

The clean energy share is currently 11.38 per cent of Dubai’s energy mix, and will reach 13.3 per cent in Q1 2022

Dubai’s Shindagha Tunnel to temporarily close in one direction for two months

The closure is coinciding with the opening of the Infinity Bridge for traffic on Sunday, January 16

Expo 2020 Dubai

Expo 2020 Dubai announces special Dhs10 tickets for visitors on January 16

The announcement was made as the event prepares to mark the milestone of achieving 10 million visits

Power Letters 2022: Rizwan Sajan, chairman and founder, Danube Group

We opened our showrooms in Uzbekistan and Nepal and are planning to take Danube Homes to more than 50 countries worldwide

JLT DMCC

Infrastructure upgrades in Dubai’s JLT to include new road network

The master developer of the community, DMCC, is also working on renovating the various lakes across the area

DEWA-SAT 1

Video: DEWA launches nanosatellite to aid network planning and maintenance in UAE

DEWA-SAT 1 was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex in Florida on Thursday

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai at Infinity Bridge Dubai

Sheikh Mohammed visits new Infinity Bridge in Dubai

It improves connectivity between Deira and Bur Dubai by raising the total number of lanes crossing the Dubai Creek from 48 to 60

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2021: Dubai records highest value of real estate sales transactions in 12 years

The total number of real estate sales transactions that took place last year were also the highest since 2013

Kitopi launches its first kitchens in Bahrain and Qatar

The company, which turns four this month, will set up operations in Malaysia and Singapore next

Things are looking better after two years – Emirates CEO

‘We are in a world in which we have to change all the time’ – Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed

Raed Barqawi signing the publishing agreement for Who Dared to Dream: How Mohammed bin Rashid Made His Dream of Dubai Come True with Ian Fairservice, Managing Partner of Motivate Media Group

A new book about Dubai’s Sheikh Mohammed will be launched at Emirates Literature Festival 2022

The Arabic version of Dare to Dream: How Mohammed bin Rashid Made His Dream of Dubai Come True by journalist Raed Barqawi is published by Motivate Media Group

Nasdaq Dubai

Nasdaq Dubai records $23.1bn sukuk and bond listings in 2021

The 30 listings undertaken in 2021 were 15.5 per cent higher than the number of listings the previous year

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority DEWA

DEWA commissioned 1,310 11kV distribution stations in Dubai in 2021

These stations are mainly spread across Mohammed bin Rashid Gardens, Airport City, Wadi Al Safa, and Al Yafra 2