ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Thursday, March 13th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

The Directorate General of Central Operations at Abu Dhabi Police honored the training liaison officers and staff working at the department, for their efforts in implementing the 2013 annual training plan and improving the efficiency of all the departments’ personnel, as well as completing the training curriculum at the Training Department on time.

The honoring also included collaborating officers from the Training Department at the General Directorate of Human Resources at Abu Dhabi Police. This accolade comes as recognition of their efforts in facilitating the work of the training liaison officers, which has had a positive impact on completing the training plan on time.

Major General Ahmed Nasser Al Raisi, Director General of Central Operations at Abu Dhabi Police, praised the outstanding efforts of the liaison officers and their teams, who are devoted to training all employees, for success ... Read more »

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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Wednesday, March 12th 2014

Lt. General HH Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior met separately today, Wednesday, at the Arab Interior Ministers Meeting, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz, the Saudi Minister of Interior and the President Emeritus of the Council of Arab Interior Ministers.

HH Sheikh Saif also separately met Sheikh Mohammad Al Khalid Al Hamad Al Sabah, Kuwait Minister of Interior; Major General Mohammed Ibrahim, Egypt Minister of Interior; Nouhad Mashnouk, Lebanon Minister of Interior; and Mohammed Ould Ahmed Salem Mauritania Minister of Interior and Decentralization.

During these meetings, HH Sheikh Saif discussed important topics of common interest to foster the Arab security work.

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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Wednesday, March 12th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

Brigadier Eng. Hussein Ahmed Al Harithi, Director of Traffic and Patrols Directorate at Abu Dhabi Police and chairman of Saaed for Traffic Systems, has denied reports published today, that the company, which is already operating at the countrywide level, will soon begin to implement its operational services in reconstructing minor accidents in the Emirate of Dubai.

Brigadier Al Harithi emphasized the need to verify information with relevant certified sources before publishing it, within the framework of the transparency policy, aimed at providing correct information to community members.

Brigadier Al Harithi added that the alleged source quoted for providing the news has denied being the source of the published information. He called on media outlets to not publish information before responsible validation with the authorized entity; pointing out that, should the company decide to cooperate ... Read more »

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Thursday, March 13th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

Brigadier Gaith Hassan Al Zaabi, Director General of the Traffic Coordination Department at the Ministry of Interior, honored officials and delegations from the GCC countries participating in the events organized for the 30thGCC Traffic Week, taking place under the slogan "Your Safety is Our Goal".

The honoring celebration, which was held at the Police Officers Club in Abu Dhabi, was attended by Colonel Khamis Ishaq Mohammed, Deputy Director of the Abu Dhabi Police Traffic and Patrols Directorate; Colonel Nasser Ahmad Al Hosani, Chief of Federal Traffic Section at the Traffic Coordination Department and head of the work team responsible for the events of GCC Traffic Week; and Colonel Obeid Mohamed Al Zaabi, Chief of the Public Relations Section at the Public Relations Department, the Ministry of Interior.

Colonel Al Zaabi stressed the importance of increasing the exchange of information regar ... Read more »

MILPITAS, Californie - Dimanche 16 Mars 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)--SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ : SNDK), un leader mondial de solutions de stockage flash, a annoncé aujourd’hui avoir engagé une action en justice contre l’entreprise coréenne SK Hynix, Inc., SK Hynix America et toutes ses filiales auprès du Tribunal supérieur de Santa Clara. La procédure vise à obtenir le paiement de dommages, une injonction et d’autres voies de recours contre Hynix pour appropriation frauduleuse de secrets industriels en vertu de l’Uniform Trade Secret Act de Californie.

En outre, SanDisk a déposé une plainte criminelle auprès du Département de la Police métropolitaine de Tokyo à l’encontre d’un ancien employé.

Ces procédures concernent le vol de secrets industriels liés à la technologie flash NAND par un ancien employé de SanDisk ayant quitté la société en 2008 av ... Read more »

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Thursday, March 13th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

Abu Dhabi Police took part in the open day activities organized by the International Community School, Abu Dhabi. This falls in line with the Abu Dhabi Police General Headquarters’ efforts to communicate with school students and acquaint them with the various tasks and duties carried out by the police, and to participate in their activities to enhance ties with the youth.

Security Inspection Department office manager, Lieutenant Hamad Al Azizi, stated that the police’s keenness to take part in public and private schools’ activities reflects the significant attention dedicated by the police sector to interact and communicate with young people. "This is achieved through fun-filled and attractive activities, which offer cultural advice and shed light on the police force’s functions, as well as its role in fulfilling police, social and humanitarian tasks within society,” he added.

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Showcase entries collected from the Go Green Art Competition

Ajman, United Arab Emirates - Sunday, March 16th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

As part of its participation in the UAE Green Festival, Ramada Hotel and Suites Ajman opened the Go Green Painting Exhibition, showcasing artworks of students who participated in the Go Green Art Competition.

The painting exhibition was inaugurated by Fatma Al Hammadi, Chief Operations Officer of UAE Green Festival and officials from the festival and R Hotels. The paintings on display were collected from the Go Green Art Competition, which was organised by the property in October 2013 and participated in by Grade II to Grade V students in the Northern Emirates.

Iftikhar Hamdani, General Manager, Ramada Hotel and Suites Ajman, commented: "Our hotel is a proud supporter of the UAE Green Festival, as this is an excellent venue to address the environmental and waste management concerns in various fields, especially in the hospitality ... Read more »

TOKYO - Dimanche 16 Mars 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO : 6502) a annoncé aujourd'hui avoir engagé une action en justice contre la société coréenne SK Hynix Inc. auprès du tribunal du district de Tokyo, dans le cadre de l'acte de prévention de concurrence déloyale au Japon (Unfair Competition Prevention Act). La poursuite civile comprend le paiement de dommages pour appropriation frauduleuse et l'utilisation d'informations techniques confidentielles de Toshiba liées à la mémoire flash NAND, que Toshiba a lancé en 1987 et qu'elle développe et produit maintenant conjointement avec SanDisk Corporation des États-Unis.

Toshiba a déposé son recours après avoir appris qu'un ancien employé de SK Hynix avait été arrêté au Japon pour infraction de loi criminelle de l'acte de prévention de concurrence déloyale. L' ... Read more »

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Friday, March 14th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Philip Morris International Inc.’s (PMI) (NYSE/ Paris Euronext: PM) EU Region President Drago Azinovic made the following comment regarding the adoption by the Council of the European Union of the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD):

"The Tobacco Products Directive adopted by the Council of the European Union today represents a worrying departure from the EU’s basic standards of proportionate, evidenced-based policymaking, which will further erode intellectual property rights and undermine the EU Charter where these rights are protected.

"Instead of further harmonizing the internal market, a stated objective of the Directive, measures in the TPD will do little to improve public health and will make the EU less competitive, pushing even more consumers to the unregulated black market in tobacco. This will be a blow to the hundreds of thousands of people working in the legal industry and ... Read more »

MILPITAS, Calif. - Friday, March 14th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a global leader in flash storage solutions, today announced that it has filed a civil lawsuit against Korea’s SK Hynix, Inc., SK Hynix America and related entities in Santa Clara Superior Court. The lawsuit seeks damages, an injunction and other remedies against Hynix for trade secret misappropriation under California’s Uniform Trade Secret Act.

Additionally, SanDisk has submitted a criminal complaint with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department against a former employee.

These actions relate to the theft of trade secrets related to NAND flash technology by a former engineer of SanDisk who left the company in 2008 to work for SK Hynix. This engineer is alleged to have illegally taken SanDisk’s proprietary technical information and to have subsequently provided it to SK Hynix.

Tokyo Metropolitan Police today announced the arrest of the former employe ... Read more »

TOKYO - Friday, March 14th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced that it has brought a civil suit against Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. at the Tokyo District Court, under Japan’s Unfair Competition Prevention Act. The suit seeks damages for the wrongful acquisition and use of Toshiba’s proprietary technical information related to NAND flash memory, which Toshiba pioneered in 1987 and now jointly develops and produces with SanDisk Corporation of the U.S.

Toshiba filed the suit on learning that a former employee of SK Hynix has been arrested in Japan for alleged criminal infringement of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act. The employee formerly worked for SanDisk in a NAND flash memory development project conducted in partnership with Toshiba at Yokkaichi Operations, Toshiba’s flash memory technology development and mass production base in Mie prefecture, Japan. The employee is alleged to have illegally taken Toshiba’s proprietary t ... Read more »

BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey - Dimanche 16 Mars 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Une étude publiée (le 13 mars 2014) dans Cephalalgia, la revue officielle de l’International Headache Society, a révélé que l'utilisation de la thérapie non-invasive de stimulation du nerf vague (SNV) d'ElectroCore peut constituer un traitement efficace et bien toléré de la migraine chez certains patients.

Cette étude ouverte, conduite sous la direction du Professeur Goadsby, a été réalisée par l'Université de Californie à San Francisco et sur quatre autres sites américains, et a porté sur 30 patients.

Sur les 30 patients recrutés pour cette étude, 27 ont utilisé la thérapie SNV pour traiter 80 crises de migraine au total. Les patients souffrant de crises de migraines modérées ou graves ont signalé une absence de douleur ou un ... Read more »

NAGOYA, Japan - Thursday, March 13th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

    Japan’s contact lens pioneer received prestigious awards from the International Society for Contact Lens Research and the American Optometric Association
    Kyoichi Tanaka ‘invented’ Japan’s first corneal contact lenses in 1951, despite having never seen contact lenses.

(BUSINESS WIRE) Kyoichi Tanaka, chairman and founder of contact lens manufacturer Menicon Co., Ltd., last year received two prestigious awards. On June 28, 2013, at its annual meeting in San Diego, the American Optometric Association honored Mr. Tanaka’s life’s work with its Legends Award. Two months later, on August 29 at its 17th Symposium – held in Kyoto – the International Society for Contact Lens Research conferred on him its Lifetime Contribution Award.

Today, still "genki” (vigorous) at 82, Mr. Tanaka maintains a strong interest in the arts and still keeps one eye on the business he pioneered in 1951 ... Read more »

DALLAS. - Thursday, March 13th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) Chuck E. Cheese’s plan to open more than 80 international franchise locations in the next six years is right on track with the newest locations in Mexico City, Mexico, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, welcoming families through their doors last November and December. The new additions to the entertainment leader’s international family bring the total operating store count outside the U.S. and Canada to 21, with an anticipated 10 to open in 2014, including one new country, Trinidad.

"In the last few years, we’ve become very passionate about and focused on the expansion of our international franchise program,” said Roger Cardinale, president of CEC Entertainment, Inc.’s International Division. "The Chuck E. Cheese character and brand are recognized throughout popular culture worldwide as being synonymous with family fun, food, games and celebrations; and we’re excited to be working closely with dedicated partners th ... Read more »

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. - Friday, March 14th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- A study reported (13TH March 2014) in the International Headache Society’s official journal Cephalalgia found that the use of electroCore’s non invasive vagus nerve stimulation therapy (nVNS) may be an effective and well tolerated treatment for migraine in certain patients.

The open label study, which was led by Professor Goadsby, was carried out by the University of California, San Francisco and at four other sites in the US involving 30 patients.

Of the 30 enrolled patients 27 used the nVNS therapy to treat a total of 80 migraine attacks. Patients with moderate or severe headache attacks reported pain freedom or relief in, twenty-three out of fifty-four attacks (43 %). This included twelve out of fifty-four attacks where the patients reported being pain free at two hours after treatment (22 %). Additionally, in ten of twenty-six attacks when the patient treated while the pain was mild t ... Read more »