KARACHI: Standard Chartered upskilled community coaches from Karachi United Football Club (KUFC) to build future footballers of Pakistan. This programme was led by two Liverpool FC academy coaches for 12 KUFC coaches who work across underserved communities and are an integral part of the Bank’s annual football community league. Steven Gillespie and Paul O Brien, coaches who work with the …

News Desk DUBAI: It was a marathon of a different kind – young, bright and futuristic minds at Carnegie Mellon University worked with intent over a 24-hour period to present 10 extraordinary ideas to Emirates – the lead sponsor of the varsity hackathon. The Emirates Group and Carnegie Mellon University, based in the US, have a history of partnering around various initiatives, including …

News Desk PANAMA CITY, Panama: Dubai Chamber organized a breakfast roundtable for private and public sector stakeholders in Panama, with the aim to introduce them to the trade and investment opportunities in Dubai due to Expo 2020.  The event alsohighlighted on Dubai as a global business destination and gateway to the MENA region for Latin American countries. Forty-five participants representing …

DUBAI: Dubai resident Karen Khachanov reached the second round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Monday with a 7-6 (2) 6-1 win over Mikhail Kukushkin, and tour veteran Philipp Kohlschreiber overcame a bold challenge from Egyptian wild card Mohamed Safwat, winning 4-6 6-4 6-0. Safwat, who recently won his first Challenger title in his 133rd tournament spread over 10 years, broke Kohlschreiber …

News Desk DUBAI: An impressive line-up of partners and speakers addressed industry peers and stake holders on utilising the IoT landscape to drive innovation at the 5th Internet of Things 2020, held at Armani Hotel Dubai. The key note addressed how AI has made business more profitable with Dr. Sven Korner and using semantic processing to interpret data to deliver real …

LAHORE: Kaarvan Crafts Foundation is happy to announce its partnership with TCS. On Thursday 21st Feburary, Kaarvan and TCS signed a MoU establishing a partnership that seeks to enable the rural artisan with deliveries of packages. Nothing comes easy for the rural woman. She takes on each day with a strong sense of resilience and with dignity. Each item she makes …

DUBAI:  Experts at Digital Health Middle East 2020 highlighted new approaches to healthcare that is set to reform the industry with preventive information and new care solutions using technologies to deliver the highest levels of safety and patient experience with the lowest cost in the future. Dr Ramadan AlBlooshi, Chief Regulatory Officer, DHCA, said “In the past five years, the …

News Desk DUBAI: Dubai Chamber hosted the Sustainability Network Achievements Ceremony, this morning, to acknowledge the commendable work done by its members in implementing sustainable and responsible practices in 2019 and to motivate them to further integrate these practices in the community. Last year, 17 new companies joined the Network, bringing the membership to 64. Launched in 2010, as a …

News Desk ABU DHABI: Ahead of its participation at the upcoming MRO Middle East event at the Dubai World Trade Centre, Etihad Engineering has announced its performance indicators for 2019 revealing that the leading maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider has signed off yet another year with a very positive record and continues to demonstrate strong potential for sustained growth …

News Desk DUBAI:  Top seed and world number one Novak Djokovic is ready for action at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships this week, in what will be his first tournament since lifting the Australian Open trophy for the eighth time last month. He will be bidding for his fifth title in Dubai, after winning in 2009-11 and 2013, and …