As part of the National Disinfection Programme run by the Ministry of Health and Prevention and the Ministry of Interior to cope with coronavirus (COVID-19) and to further enhance the smart service offering, Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), is closing customers happiness centres and amending the business hours of others from Wednesday 1st April to […]

On Monday 30 March 2020, an Emirates SkyCargo flight carrying close to 500,000 Covid-19 testing kits landed at Sao Paulo airport in Brazil. The kits were moved from Guangzhou via Dubai by the air cargo carrier on the first of two such flights operated to transport supplies to Sao Paulo. During the same week, Emirates […]

Dubai Startup Hub, an entrepreneurship initiative of Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry, and Dubai Technology Entrepreneur Campus, a wholly owned tech co-working space by Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), today announced the selection of 30 Emirati entrepreneurs to participate in their first joint Emirati Development Programme Training & Mentorship Academy The academy provides a […]

Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said the Government of Dubai is fully committed to supporting Emirates airlines in the current critical period. As a shareholder of Emirates airlines, the Government of Dubai will inject equity into the company, […]

Al Ramz, a financial institution in the UAE, has announced the expansion of its market-making activities on Nasdaq Dubai to strengthen its status as the leading provider of liquidity on all listed futures. The move supports liquidity in the exchange’s futures market on behalf of investors who wish to take positions on the price moves […]

The Commercial Compliance & Consumer Protection (CCCP) sector in Dubai Economy has imposed fines on three pharmacies, in Jumeirah, Al Khawaneej and Mirdif, for tampering with the prices of face masks and sanitisers. Two of the pharmacies were found to have exaggerated the price of face masks while the third had sold sanitisers at a […]

Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the leading international financial hub in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region, reinforces its commitment to supporting the UAE Government’s sustained efforts to protect citizens and residents from the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In response to COVID-19, DIFC is actively following the mandatory directives of […]

The UAE Fuel Price Follow-up Committee has approved the April prices, including the 5 percent VAT as follows: Diesel: 2.06 Super (98): 1.91 Special (95): 1.80 Prices will be applied effective April 1st, 2020.

Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services has launched its first ‘Self Sanitisation Walk’ to protect paramedics and their colleagues and families from the risk of various kinds of infection. The new device helps paramedics safeguard themselves from any infection that their clothes may catch during the course of working with confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19. […]

H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, has issued Executive Council ‘s Resolution No 18 of 2020 establishing the Center for Coronavirus Control under the chairmanship of Dr Amer Ahmed Al Sharif. The newly established centre includes representatives from the Ministry of Health […]