Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 235,367 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement, the ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the necessary treatment. ...
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Seha’s Frontline Heroes of pandemic to be rewarded
Abu Dhabi / WAM In recognition of the continued efforts of Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (Seha) in combatting the Covid-19 pandemic, Flash Entertainment has announced that it will provide exclusive opportunities for Seha staff to experience its new calendar packed with great live events. The partnership between the UAE-based Flash Entertainment, the Middle East’s leading live entertainment company, ...
Read More »DFF launches Arabic glossary for future terminology
DUBAI / WAM On the occasion of World Arabic Language Day, observed every year on December 18, Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) launched an online glossary of future Arabic scientific and technical terms. Containing 500 terms in Arabic and English, arranged according to categories, the open-source dictionary is available at https://arabicglossary.dubaifuture.ae, and enables the public to edit it and add ...
Read More »Dewa breaks ground for largest solar-powered data centre in MEA
Dubai / WAM Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) and Steven Yi, President of Huawei Middle East & Africa, have broken ground for the first phase of the largest solar-powered data centre in the Middle East and Africa, set to be Uptime TIER III-Certified. The data centre will be implemented by ...
Read More »WAM’s Expo 2020-related content reaches 9bn views
Abu Dhabi / WAM Publications and news related to Expo 2020 Dubai quoting the Emirates News Agency (WAM) had reached 9.1 billion views across all platforms worldwide in just two months, from October 1, 2021 until November 30. A statistical report conducted by a specialist international consultancy company – to monitor the local and global circulation of WAM’s Expo ...
Read More »What if Boris Johnson is no longer a winner?
Tory MPs describe Boris Johnson as a “greased piglet,†forever slipping from the clutches of his political enemies just when they think they have him cornered. The UK prime minister will require all his fabled survival skills after the Liberal Democratic Party overturned a large Conservative majority to secure a by-election victory with a 34% swing. Many Conservative MPs ...
Read More »When Luxury sees billions in NFTs
Time to get ready for the party. You put on your Balenciaga cap, fasten your Rolex Daytona and don your Louis Vuitton cross-body bag. But this isn’t In-Real-Life bling. It’s all virtual gear, worn by your digital self, who’s about to be teleported into the metaverse. Welcome to the new world of luxury, where avatars wear Burberry “skins†and carry ...
Read More »What do we expect for manufacturers in 2022?
It has been 21 months since the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 outbreak a pandemic, but it has felt like eons longer. That’s in large part because we keep reliving the same story lines again and again. Business operations and air travel are getting disrupted yet again by a spike in Covid cases and the emergence of the ...
Read More »So, who’s appeasing Vladimir Putin now?
On the campaign trail in 2020, then-candidate Joe Biden posed as hawk on Russia. In response to reports (later discredited) that then-President Donald Trump had ignored intelligence suggesting Russia had paid for bounties on US forces in Afghanistan, Biden declared that Trump’s “entire presidency has been a gift to Putin.†Biden’s attitude was partly explained by his party’s obsession ...
Read More »Alibaba targets $100b SE  Asian commerce business
Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding has unveiled ambitious objectives for its Southeast Asian arm Lazada, accelerating an overseas expansion to offset Chinese economic and regulatory headwinds. The Chinese e-commerce leader is targeting a long-term goal of quintupling gross merchandise value, the sum of transactions across Lazada’s platforms, to $100 billion, Alibaba outlined in a presentation to investors. It wants Lazada ...
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