Industry Leader Recognized for Service Excellence for Both Clients and Employees

LAS VEGAS - Tuesday, August 20th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) Rimini Street, Inc., the leading third-party maintenance and support provider for enterprise software, including SAP AG’s (NYSE:SAP) Business Suite and BusinessObjects software and Oracle Corporation’s (NYSE:ORCL) Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, Oracle Database and Hyperion software, today announced that it was named the winner of three Stevie® Awards in the customer service, support and human resources categories of The 10th Annual International Business AwardsSM, demonstrating the Company’s commitment to providing service excellence for both its clients and employees. This is the second consecutive year that the Company has been recognized as a Stevie Award winner.

Rimini Street’s team of primary support engineers (PSEs) once again received a Steve Award, this year receiving the Gold Stevie awa ... Read more »

Commending the newly approved Anti-Tobacco Law regulations

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Tuesday, August 20th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

The Higher Committee for Child Protection at the Ministry of Interior called on community members, particularly motorists, to enhance children’s safety and security, and protect them against any potential risks they may encounter in private vehicles.

Major General Nasser Lakhrebani Al Nuaimi, Secretary General of the Office of HH Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, and Chairman of the MoI’s Higher Committee for Child Protection, lauded the noble humanitarian principles reflected in the executive regulations of the Anti-Tobacco Law, which were approved by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, which will come into effect as of January 21st 2014. The executive regulations will ban smoking in private vehicles if a child younger than 12 years old is ... Read more »

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Tuesday, August 20th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

The Ministry of Interior apprehended 3,371 violators, including 21 beggars, of the Entry and Residence of Foreigners Law during the holy month of Ramadan. These seizures were made following the raids carried out by the Violators and Foreigners Follow-up Department across the State level.

The Ministry of Interior called upon the public to contribute to the capture of violators by calling the Sahim service on the toll-free number: 80080.

The Abu Dhabi Residency Violators and Foreigners Follow-up Department conducted search campaigns and raids in various locations. The crackdowns yielded the arrest of 824 violators in Abu Dhabi and 105 violators in Al Ain; all of whom have been referred to the relevant authorities where they will await legal proceedings.

The Ministry of Interior, in collaboration with the Residency Violators and Foreigners Follow-up Department in Dubai, conducted a search ... Read more »

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Tuesday, August 20th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

The second phase of the "Police Friends” summer program   organized by the Sports Clubs and Activities Department at the Abu Dhabi Police Officers Club kicked off with the participation of 50 officers’ children.

Colonel Saif Al Shamsi, Head of Sports Clubs and Activities Department at Abu Dhabi Police, underscored the keenness of Abu Dhabi Police to organize a number of programs, societal cultural events for officers’ children at the Ministry of Interior and Abu Dhabi Police GHQ.  This comes in line with the ministry and police leadership’s commitment to fill the officers’ children’s leisure time during the vacation with useful activities, with a view to produce an educated generation, well aware of the importance of development and excellence in society.

He added that such events allow students to get acquainted with the various police entities and the nature of their fathers’ ... Read more »

NEW JERSEY - Tuesday, August 20th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- A clinical study to evaluate the prophylactic effect of non-invasive vagal nerve stimulation for the prevention of chronic migraine completed enrollment last week. The study, which is being sponsored by electroceutical healthcare company electroCore, involves 60 patients across six US sites1.

After an initial one month period, during which headache frequency data will be collected, the patients, all of whom experience migraine headaches on more than 15 daysper month, will be randomized into two groups. One group will use an active device and the other a sham device for a period of two months. All patients will then be provided with the active treatment device for a period of six months. Throughout the study, patients will record the number of headache days and the severity of the headaches experienced. The full results are expected in the second quarter of 2014.

This study, which is part of one ... Read more »

Promoting Correct Traffic Behaviors

ME Newswire

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Monday, August 19th 2013

The Abu Dhabi Police Traffic and Patrols Directorate indicated that about 3,360,765 individuals received awareness-raising newsletters and messages via social networking sites during the Holy Month of Ramadan. This comes in line with the awareness-raising campaign launched by the Directorate via social networking sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter; and is part of its program to reduce traffic accidents, under the slogan "Together”.

Brigadier Eng. Hussein Ahmed Al Harithi, Director of the Traffic and Patrols Directorate explained that a total of 2,004,265 participants took part in the campaign through Facebook, with a total of 20,000 posts, comments and Likes, and  40,000 followers. . Furthermore, he noted that the overall number of Twitter impressions amounted to 1,250,000, with a total of 43,000 individuals who viewed or retweeted the aw ... Read more »