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Abu Dhabi
Nov. 5: Abu Dhabi’s Zayed Cricket Stadium will be renamed the Zayed-MCC Cricket Academy, according to Abi Carter, the media officer at MCC, Lord’s.
"The Marylebone Cricket Club has signed a three-year agreement with Abu Dhabi Cricket Club to become their associate club partners," Carter said from London. "The...
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DHABI // The capital has lent a helping hand to the ailing Class-1 Offshore Powerboat World Championship by hosting the penultimate round of the race series at the Breakwater on Friday and Saturday.The championship has suffered from the lack of sponsorship but the Abu Dhabi International Marine Sports Club gave the race organisers a welcome boost by announcing a regular leg of the race, starting from...
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WAM Abu Dhabi, Oct 31st, 2009 (WAM): "Perhaps, more than all the future financial gains that have been projected, what is essential is the value of the exposure that brand Abu Dhabi will get during the course of those 90 high-octane minutes. And there is no price tag on that. The people -both Emirati and expatriate- will bear witness to this in the future", wrote a local English daily today.As the...
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Abu Dhabi, Nov 10 : The United Arab Emirates (UAE) would finance the construction of a dam in Burkina Faso in west Africa, WAM news agency reported Tuesday.The loan agreement was signed at the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) headquarters in Abu Dhabi by Mohammed Saif Al Suwaidi, acting director general of Abu Dhabi Fund for Development and the Ambassador of Burkina Faso to Saudi Arabia Omar Diawara.Al...
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visitDUBAI -- Dubai's ruler on Monday stressed unity with the sheikdom's oil-rich neighbor Abu Dhabi amid ongoing concern over its ability to meet its financial commitments.In one of his strongest assertions of national unity in the seven member federation of emirates Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said "so to the people of you who nag over Dubai and Abu Dhabi, shut up!""There is no Dubai or...
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COMING THROUGH: Sebastian Vettel of Germany drives during the Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix.Copyright...
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Dhabi Businesswomen Council takes part at Arab Women Investors Conference in MoroccoWAM Abu Dhabi, Oct 25th, 2009 (WAM)--The Abu Dhabi Businesswomen Council will take part at the eighth Conference and show of the Arab Women Investors in Rabat from Oct. 28- 30. The event will be held by the Arab Women Investors Union under auspices of King Mohammed VI, of Morocco.Dr Rodha Abdullah Al Mutawa, Chairwoman...
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AbuDhabi, that’s where. Not shooting for some Arabian adventure film in thecapital city of the UAE, but, well, watching the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix live onSunday.This is the first Grand Prix at Abu Dhabi and marks theclimax of the 2009 F1 World Championship. The venue is the Yas Marina RaceCircuit off the coast of Abu Dhabi where a 500-bed, five-star hotel straddlesthe race track. And where F1 fans can...
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Abu Dhabi, Nov 4 : Despite the global financial crisis and a sharp rise in commodity prices, Abu Dhabi's gross domestic product (GDP) rose from 17.2 percent in 2007 to 30 percent in 2008, WAM news agency reported Wednesday.The Abu Dhabi Economic Report 2009, which made the observations, was released by the Department of Economic Development (DED) here Wednesday.DED chairman Nasser Al Suweidi said in...
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