DUBAI: Mashreq one of the leading financial institutions in the UAE, has appointed Tarek El Nahas as its new Head of International Banking Group. Tarek spent 25 years at Citibank, most recently as the Head of Corporate and Investment Banking for North Africa, Egypt and Levant, managing teams across 6 countries in the MENA region. He has held several senior …
DUBAI: Saudi German Hospitals (SGH) Group has reported some outstanding achievements in 2019 under the leadership of its President, Makarem Sobhi Batterjee, who plans to rejuvenate the 30-year-old brand. Aiming to further boost its market stronghold, SGH Group has rolled out a series of initiatives, which aim at redefining the healthcare provider’s standards in the market. It has also taken …
DUBAI: Staged in strategic partnership with Dubai Design District (d3), with the support of Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (DCAA) alongside Audi and A.R.M. Holding, the region’s largest creative festival welcomed over 90,000 visitors to d3 with an extensive programme of 200 activities including talks, workshops large-scale site-specific installations, exhibitions and trade fairs.Reflecting the city’s position as the regional hub …
News Desk QUETTA: Zong 4G’s New Hope Volunteers visited the SOS family villages in Quetta, encompassing 15 sub-villages along with 4 youth homes in Quetta, Baluchistan. The volunteers spent a day with the marginalized children of the society. With over 125 children, SOS Children’s Village Quetta is a unique facility which offers socially displaced children a second chance at life …
DUBAI: This Sunday, October 20, Dubai International (DXB) will start the official countdown to Expo 2020, marking the nationwide celebration of one year to go before The World’s Greatest Show. Establishing its position as the first experience of Expo 2020 and the UAE for many of the hundreds of thousands of visitors expected to descend on the Emirates between October …
FRANKFURT: Slovenian airline Adria Airways, headquartered in Ljubljana, has ceased to be a member of Star Alliance effective 02 October 2019. The departure of Adria Airways from Star Alliance follows the company’s recent bankruptcy developments and cessation of all flight operations as of 30 September. This has been a regrettable development following 15 years of Adria Airways’membership in Star Alliance. …
DUBAI: Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the region, together with the DIFC FinTech Hive, the largest financial technology accelerator in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA), are the first in the region to certify FinTech startups who have successfully used the Emirates NBD’s API (Application Programming Interface) Sandbox to create and demonstrate working innovative financial solutions. The five FinTech …
AJMAN: The Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development (KFED), in cooperation with the Ajman Municipality and Planning Department, recently hosted the special ‘Entrepreneurs Forum’ at the Fairmont Ajman hotel for Emirati-owned small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and KFED members. The event was held to help the attendees reinforce and enhance their communication ties with local government and semi-government entities, the private …
DUBAI: Synology® Inc. today launched DiskStation DS419slim, a 4-bay NAS equipped with 2.5″ drive support. Underneath the palm-sized chassis, it supports up to 20TB maximum raw capacity with four 2.5″ HDDs. “Nowadays, many people are still struggling with managing files scattered across public clouds, USB drives, or personal computers. As a clever and reliable personal cloud, DS419slim helps keep your precious …
ABU DHABI: Celebrating the spirit of Giving, Agthia Group management and employees recently took part in a series of CSR initiatives to mark the Holy month of Ramadan. Agthia volunteers gathered in Agthia’s plant in Al Wathba to pack and distribute 500 Ramadan food hampers to families in Abu Dhabi and Dubai in partnership with the UAE Red Crescent Authority, …
