Sharjah / WAM Sheikh Fahim Al Qasimi, Chairman of the Department of Government Relations (DGR) in Sharjah, hosted a high-level Guatemalan delegation, headed by Antonio Malouf, Guatemala’s Minister of Economy, at the House of Wisdom in Sharjah to explore and strengthen the framework of economic collaboration and enhance commercial and investment partnerships between the emirate and the Central American country. ...

Sharjah / WAM The Department of Water and Desalination Plants at the Sharjah Electricity, Water and Gas Authority (Sewa) revealed the completion of a project to replace and develop Al Falaj water pumping station with a pumping capacity of 73.9 million gallons per day, contributing to saving 879 megawatts of electricity annually and reducing carbon dioxide emissions to 503 tonnes ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) has announced the launch of a new initiative dubbed as “One Stop Shop for Litigation”, which allows judges of Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Al Dhafra courts to hear disputes and render judgments from anywhere without being restricted by the geographical location of registered cases, by utilising video conference technology. ...

A lot of people disdain artificial deadlines in legislation and the frantic, seemingly chaotic activity that goes with them. But while there was still no resolution by of the Democratic Party’s impasse on the dual congressional bills that would enact large chunks of their agenda, from climate to health care to child care to construction and more, the day’s events ...

Relations between China and the US may be scraping new lows, but that hasn’t stopped Chinese consumers from snapping up the iPhone 13. Shortly after pre-sales for the phone opened on September 17, some colours sold out in minutes. Apple Inc’s China website crashed. Social media erupted. A week later, as in-store sales began, eager buyers stampeded through a shopping ...

Merck & Co and Ridgeback’s antiviral pill molnupiravir is a potential pandemic game-changer, judging from the positive test data. To make the most of this promise, governments and global health organisations need to prepare to manufacture the pills in great quantities. The clinical trial results are preliminary, but impressive. People with fresh symptoms of Covid-19 who took the pills for ...

With an eight point lead in the opinion polls, an 83-seat majority in the House of Commons and economic growth figures for the second quarter revised upwards from 4.8% to 5.5%, what does UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson have to fear? Plenty. Although the opposition Labour party requires an enormous swing of more than 10% at the next general election ...

Bloomberg Tata Sons Pvt is set to take over ailing Air India Ltd again, more than half a century after the country’s biggest conglomerate ceded control to the state, ending the government’s hold over an airline that for decades defined the lofty ambitions of a newly-independent nation. A panel of ministers accepted a proposal from bureaucrats, who recommended the conglomerate’s ...

Bloomberg United Airlines Holdings Inc said as many as 593 employees face termination after declining to get the coronavirus vaccine following the carrier’s deadline last week. About 2,000 United workers have requested an exemption on medical or religious grounds, the company said, the day after the vaccine mandate deadline took effect for about 67,000 US-based employees. The airline plans to ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co forecasts that commercial aviation should be back to 2019 levels in two to three years, buoyed by a strong domestic recovery in China and parts of Europe, the US planemaker’s China head said. Various countries’ vaccination rates and differing quarantine requirements will pose some hurdles but “we’re anticipating in the next two to three years that the ...