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Sharjah Police, chamber of commerce explore ways to further secure real estate sector

Officials from the Representative Committee of the Real Estate Sector Business Group of the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Sharjah Police General Command during the meeting. Sharjah: The Representative Committee of the Real Estate Sector Business Group of the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCI), in collaboration with Sharjah Police General Command, organised a meeting with representatives ...

Sharjah Sustainable City: Green living

Yousif Ahmed Al-Mutawa, CEO of Sharjah Sustainable City, discusses progress on a megaproject that will put the emirate on the Sustainable development map Over the last few years, there has been a considerable shift in attitudes towards the concept of sustainable development, particularly in the GCC region. Where developers were once disdainful about the need to create efficient and effective ...

Emirates Post signs MoU with Shurooq

Collaboration to provide commemorative stamps and design postcards that reflect the rich heritage of Sharjah for visitors of Al Bareed Café Emirates Post aspires to launch more joint postage editions in cooperation with local, regional, and international partners, to document the important historical and national events of the UAE Emirates Post has signed an MoU with the Sharjah Investment and Development Authority ...

Relations between UAE, China based on respect, mutual interests: Sharjah Chamber

Abdullah Sultan Al Owais, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has said that the relations between the UAE and China are historic and based on respect and mutual interests in many areas, including the economy, commerce and tourism. In an exclusive statement to the Emirates News Agency, WAM, Al Owais said that ...

SCCI, UoS launch 5th Sharjah Chamber Award for innovators

The University of Sharjah (UoS) and the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCI) have launched the 5th edition of the Sharjah Chamber Award for Innovators. Featuring eight new scientific fields in the categories of innovative projects and specialised academic research, the AED100,000-award ($27,224) is targeting the creative and innovative students from UAE universities and grade 12 students from the ...

Sharjah, Romania highlight ways to enhance bilateral businesses

The Sharjah Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCI), received a Romanian delegation as part of the efforts to enhance the bilateral economic relations, boost trade exchange, develop the relations between business communities in both countries, and examine the possibility of holding joint economic activities to introduce investment opportunities available on both sides. The meeting was attended by Abdullah Sultan Al ...

SCCI discusses harnessing Italian technology in boosting Sharjah’s manufacturing output

The Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry, SCCI, recently discussed means of developing economic cooperation with the Embassy of Italy to the UAE and the possibility of organising joint economic events to explore investment opportunities and enhance communication mechanisms between business communities in the two countries, as well as to make the most of modern Italian technologies in boosting Sharjah’s ...

Sharjah to turn 47-hectare landfill into solar energy farm

To build this solar farm, the emirate will first have to reach its zero-waste target and close the Al Saja’a landfill. A 47-hectare landfill in Sharjah will be converted into a solar energy facility once the area is capped, sustainability pioneer Bee’ah announced on Monday. Set to be the first of its kind in the region, this solar energy landfill ...

Sharjah’s Alef Group announces 34% increase in sales in “Al Mamsha” in H1 2020

SHARJAH – The Sharjah-based developer Alef Group has announced a 34 per cent increase in its sales for its multi-use “Al Mamsha” project during the first six months of 2020. The encouraging results come in light of the difficult circumstances that the world has faced surrounding the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, and demonstrate the strength and durability of the ...

Sharjah records Dh6.2b real estate transactions in H1

The emirate of Sharjah recorded up to 28,710 real estate transactions, worth Dh6.2 billion, in the first half of 2020; a rise of 4.1 percent as compared to the transactions recorded over the same period last year. The sales transactions recorded in the first six months of the year covered 15.3 million square feet, as per the latest report of ...