Tokyo and Riyadh, - Monday, May 5th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT/TSE: 6501, “Hitachi”) today announced that it has reached an agreement with Halla Juffali, the Managing Director of WJCO (Walid Ahmad Juffali Company Limited), to establish a joint venture in the gas-insulated switchgear business. Hitachi will hold a 51% share of equity in the new venture,  and WJCO  will hold  a 49% share.  With  an investment  plan  toconstruct a new manufacturing  plant for gas-insulated  switchgear  to be located in Jeddah, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the company will focus on operations for gas-insulated switchgear   from design   and   manufacture,   through   to assembly, installation and sales, as well as handling the entire process at substations from design through to procurement, construction, maintenance, and other related operations.

There is a ... Read more »

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Friday, May 2nd 2014 [ME NewsWire]

A delegation from the Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) reviewed the Abu Dhabi Police General Headquarters distinguished experience in the electronic field; in the framework of transferring knowledge among governmental institutions.

Colonel Anwar Al Mulla, Head of ICT Department, had recently met the delegation where a discussion took place around the Abu Dhabi Police efforts that resulted in obtaining the governmental entity e-excellence award within the Abu Dhabi Government Excellence Awards in its previous edition.

Moreover, the elements of institutional success were highlighted, in addition to the role of information technology in this area. At the end of the meeting, Colonel Al Mulla and the delegation exchanged commemorative gifts. It is worth mentioning that the meeting was attended by Colonel Mohammed Abdullah Al Zaabi, Deputy Director of the Department.

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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Sunday, May 4th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

Brigadier Mohammed Rashid Al Shamesi, Vice Chairman of Al Faraj Fund at the Ministry of Interior hailed the efforts of the UAE Red Crescent Authority in supporting the Fund’s humanitarian programs. He also expressed his deepest gratitude and evaluation for the Authority for choosing the Fund as a major partner in organizing the third edition of the Ataya Annual Exhibition. The third Ataya Annual Exhibition’s events started today, Sunday, at the Abu Dhabi Country Club. The revenues of the Exhibition which will continue till May 7th will be dedicated to settle inmates’ outstanding financial debts and provide assistance to their families.

Brigadier Al Shamesi stressed that Al Faraj Fund is continuing its humanitarian role and extending its charity work to aid insolvent inmates who had served their imprisonment period. The Fund grants them a new chance to start a decent life, and to pr ... Read more »

HOUSTON. - Tuesday, May 6th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) EMAS AMC has awarded Serimax a long-term frame agreement to provide comprehensive welding services for their global spool base operations.

This Global Frame Agreement will further strengthen EMAS AMC’s overall capability to execute rigid pipeline projects throughout the world. EMAS AMC currently operates an established spool base in the Gulf of Mexico while a second newbuild spool base is under construction in Norway.

The scope of work covered in the frame agreement includes Spool Base Fabrication services including Specialist Welding and Pipe Inspection Services for EMAS AMC reel lay activity.

Frederic Castrec, Managing Director of Serimax, said, “EMAS AMC is a dynamic company that has, in a relatively short time secured a healthy backlog of work in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. I am confident that our two companies will grow together and jointly develop strong synerg ... Read more »

Enables mobile operators with feature rich OTT-like voice and video solution

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RICHARDSON, Texas. - Tuesday, May 6th 2014

Mavenir Systems® (NYSE:MVNR), a leading provider of software-based mobile communications solutions, today announced the general availability of its mobile voice and messaging client software for handsets and tablets. Mavenir’s client solution is designed to allow mobile operators to differentiate their Voice over LTE (VoLTE), Voice over WiFi (VoWiFi) and Rich Communication Services (RCS).

Mavenir’s client software enables mobile operators to rapidly bring new services to market without any dependency on embedded clients provided by device manufacturers. The client is easily customized to allow mobile operators to innovate and optimize the user experience with control over the end-to-end solution. Mavenir already has 2 tier one customers for its client.

“We are expanding our por ... Read more »

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Friday, May 2nd 2014 [ME NewsWire]

The Ministry of Interior honored quality and Excellence teams in celebration of the Ministry of Interior and Abu Dhabi Police Headquarters achievements in past years that helped promote the police work to advanced international levels.

Major General Mohammed bin Al Awadhi Al Menhali, Head of the Quality and Excellence Team, affirmed that: “honoring the innovators and distinguished staff in quality teams embodies the Abu Dhabi Police’s strategy and vision of sustainable and continuous development. It is also an appreciation of efforts that help enhance and develop work mechanisms in all fields.”

He said the in his speech to the honored staff from quality and Excellence teams during the recent celebration held at Abu Dhabi Police Officers Club.

The head of the Quality and Excellence Team explained that the upcoming stage requires more efforts in the excellence field, ... Read more »

Asserting the Abu Dhabi Police Commitment to Support Families

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Saturday, May 3rd 2014 [ME NewsWire]
Brigadier Najim Abdullah Al Hosani, Director of the Social Support Centers Department of Abu Dhabi Police asserted that protecting children against the dangers and abuses they face is a family and society responsibility. This responsibility indicates the high levels of development that countries and people achieved. It is also a true indicator of a healthy society as children are a genuine asset of present prosperity and the driving force of a developed future.
In his statement during a meeting with media representative at the Department’s Headquarter, Brigadier Al Hosani indicated that the family is naturally the main pillar of all societies, and specifically for children. Society’s power is derived from the principles of religion, ethics, and patriotism. These principles guarantee law enforcement, freedom, secur ... Read more »

GENÈVE. - Mercredi 7 Mai 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)Tous les ingrédients sont désormais réunis pour une année réussie sur les marchés actions européens. Les entreprises sont en effet parvenues à assainir leur bilan, et ont de plus en plus confiance en l’avenir – une tendance soutenue notamment par de bonnes projections de croissance du PIB pour la région. Cependant, l’Europe ne se traite plus avec une décote, d’où l’importance de la qualité des bénéfices.

La surperformance régulière de l’équipe Actions européennes de l’UBP a été générée grâce à une sélection de titres de forte conviction et à une approche pragmatique en matière d’investissement, les portefeuilles pouvant s’adapter aux différentes phases du cycle de marché. L’équipe est composée de «stock-pickers» actifs orientés sur les sociétés de moyenne capitalisation, combinant une recherche «top-down» et, dans une moindre ... Read more »

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Friday, May 2nd 2014 [ME NewsWire]

The Abu Dhabi Civil Defense General Directorate honored the winners of the 3rd Minister of Interior’s Award 2014 for the “Director General” category. The honored staff included 20 distinguished participants including 9 winners and 11 candidates.

Colonel Juma Salim Al Dahmani, Assistant Director General of Civil Defense, hailed the efforts of the participants and the winners in promoting the participation of their directorates for the award. He also hailed the evaluation team of the General Directorate and the organizing administrators that helped with the success of this event.

He pointed that Civil Defense General Directorate adopted a method to achieve excellence by applying outstanding performance standards for the services it provides for the public, which led to help and support achieving strategic goals.

He congratulated the winners and urged them to more givi ... Read more »

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Friday, May 2nd 2014 [ME NewsWire]

Colonel Saif Ali Al Ketbi, Police College Director General recently honored 23 distinguished employees at the Police College. The ceremony held at the Al Ittihad Hall, marked the International Workers’ Day that is celebrated on May 1st annually, under the slogan “Our Workers … Thank You.” The event was attended by Colonel Abdullah Saeed Al Dhaheri, Head of Specialized Training Department at the General Authority for the Security of Ports, Borders, in addition to department heads, section chiefs, and a number of Police College officers.

Colonel Al Ketbi pointed out that the Police College administration honoring of its distinguished employees on the International Workers’ Day coincides with the UAE celebrations of the event. “The honoring recognizes the employees’ powerful efforts that effectively help in providing best services at institutions and authoriti ... Read more »

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Friday, May 2nd 2014 [ME NewsWire]
The Law Respect Culture Bureau, at the General Secretariat of the Office of His Highness Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior participated in a training course to qualify staff to be warrant officers. The course was held at the Federal Police School in Sharjah, and aimed to provide its members with the key skills to walk through their career life.
Lt. Colonel Dr. Hammoud Al Affari, Deputy Director of the Bureau said that the law respect culture is a cultural aspect that every law personnel should understand the meaning and contents of the law, and believe in the need to enforce it on both personal and professional levels.
He added: “The inclusion of the law respect subject in the qualification and promotion system reflects the keenness of the Ministry to educate its staff and raise their law awareness, by setting the right foundation of law education, and understanding that law is ... Read more »

CHENNAI, India & ORLANDO, Fla - Monday, May 5th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) Polaris Financial Technology Ltd, a leader in products that enable unprecedented operational productivity for the global financial services industry, announced the launch of Life Claims in the Cloud at the recently held annual Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (ACORD) LOMA Forum in Orlando, Florida.

According to Matthew Josefowicz, Managing Director at Novarica, “Understanding the value of cloud options and considering how they can be deployed effectively to solve existing business problems should be part of every insurers’ strategic plans.”

Life Claims in the Cloud helps life, annuity and health carriers harness the power of cloud computing to run a claims solution for as low as $10,000/month without any lead time to deploy.

This innovative offering allows claims managers to focus on processing claims quickly and enha ... Read more »

GENEVA. - Tuesday, May 6th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) We have all the ingredients for a successful year in European equities. Corporates have managed to clean their balance sheets and their trust in the future is rising – which is supported by good GDP growth projections for the region. Europe is however no longer trading at a discount, which is why the quality of earnings is important.

UBP’s European Equities team’s consistent outperformance has been generated by high-conviction stock-picking and a pragmatic approach to style, adapting portfolios to suit all phases of the stock market cycle – they are active stock-pickers with a bias towards medium-sized companies, combining top-down and bottom-up research. The team’s favorite themes at the moment are the European recovery, value and restructuring – with a bias on domestic cyclicality, particularly within consumer discretionary, as well as on industrials and the mid-cap sp ... Read more »

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Friday, May 2nd 2014 [ME NewsWire]

The Federal Police School at Sharjah recently celebrated the graduation of five training courses. The courses covered: a Foundational English Language course for officers, in collaboration with Police Officers Training Institute; two Musical Dimensions courses (first and second); the 23rd Foundational Relationships Course; and the first Productivity and Performance Improvement in Female Police Work. 84 female and male participants from various Ministry of Interior departments and leaderships took part in the courses.

Brigadier General Dr. Abdullah Ali Saeed bin Sahoo, Director General of Residency and Foreigners Affairs in Sharjah witnessed, at the Federal Police School Headquarters, the graduation of the Foundational English Language course. He asserted that the training which the participants have received will effectively develop their skills and capabilities to their best levels. This developmen ... Read more »

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Tuesday, May 6th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

A total of 52 schools in Abu Dhabi benefited from the traffic awareness programs which were organized by the Abu Dhabi Police Traffic and Patrols Directorate as part of the fourth edition of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. The traffic and patrols pavilion also attracted a significant public turnout and included open dialogues with visitors, so as to enhance the traffic culture and advocate the importance of adherence to traffic laws and regulations among all segments of society.

Lt. Colonel Jamal Salem Al Ameri, Chief of Public Relations Section in the Traffic and Patrols Directorate, Abu Dhabi Police, indicated that the ADP Traffic and Patrols pavilion in the fair’s “creativity corner” included several interactive programs. These programs were characterized by an integrated approach in addressing traffic issues; so as to embody the ADP’s social communication methodol ... Read more »

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Tuesday, May 6th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

A total of 52 schools in Abu Dhabi benefited from the traffic awareness programs which were organized by the Abu Dhabi Police Traffic and Patrols Directorate as part of the fourth edition of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. The traffic and patrols pavilion also attracted a significant public turnout and included open dialogues with visitors, so as to enhance the traffic culture and advocate the importance of adherence to traffic laws and regulations among all segments of society.

Lt. Colonel Jamal Salem Al Ameri, Chief of Public Relations Section in the Traffic and Patrols Directorate, Abu Dhabi Police, indicated that the ADP Traffic and Patrols pavilion in the fair’s “creativity corner” included several interactive programs. These programs were characterized by an integrated approach in addressing traffic issues; so as to embody the ADP’s social communication methodol ... Read more »