Dubai / WAM Dubai Technology Entrepreneur Campus (Dtec), the largest tech hub and co-working space in the Mena region wholly owned by Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Oqal Angel Investors Network, the leading early-stage investor group in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, to enhance the venture investment culture in start-ups and support young entrepreneurs. ...

Sharjah / WAM Alef group, the leading real estate development company in Sharjah, and the developer of the Al Mamsha and 06 Mall projects, on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Sharjah Entrepreneurship Centre (Sheraa). The agreement states that the two parties will undergo cooperation to support talented and emerging entrepreneurs. The memorandum was signed by Issa ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Municipality has achieved 100 percent reduction in papers during the year 2020. The total reduction amounted to 20,960,743 papers annually, saving more than AED95 million and more than one million working hours. “The implementation of the improvement measures related to the Dubai Paperless Strategy has led to an increase in the percentage of digital completion to ...

DUBAI / WAM Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, Hessa Bint Essa Buhumaid, Minister of Community Development, officially inaugurated on Monday the 17th edition of the Dubai International Humanitarian Aid and Development Conference and Exhibition (Dihad) at the Dubai International Convention and ...

DUBAI / WAM The Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) on Monday announced that private schools in Dubai will not be increasing tuition fees for the 2021-22 academic year. This is the second consecutive year that fees for Dubai schools have remained steady. The announcement follows the release of the annual Education Cost Index (ECI) calculated by the Dubai Statistics ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Waste Management Centre (Tadweer) recycled 1,915,724 tons of Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste in Abu Dhabi in 2020, accounting for 80 percent of the total C&D waste handled by its facilities. This is equivalent to 255 domes of the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi. Over the past year, Tadweer collected 2,400,000 tons of C&D ...

DUBAI / WAM Emirates and TAP Air Portugal signed a memorandum of understanding to expand the codeshare partnership currently in place between both airlines. The new agreement will see customers of both airlines benefit from seamless connectivity on many new routes across the Americas, North Africa and East Asia. Emirates and TAP Air Portugal will also explore ways to enhance ...

Bloomberg Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., which supplies almost all of South Africa’s power, said it’s undertaking long-overdue repairs at its facilities amid a high risk of nationwide outages, and it expects supply to improve later this year. The debt-stricken state utility has implemented electricity rationing — known locally as load-shedding — on 19 days so far this year after record ...

The stock market plunged, the dollar spiked and digital frenzy swept Brazil. Another record-breaking day for Covid-19 fatalities, or one more assault on civility by the nation’s provocateur-in-chief, President Jair Bolsonaro? None of the above. What has Brazilians in a lather is a new variant of a more familiar affliction — Lulapalooza. Until this week, the much admired and widely ...

Covid-19’s path of destruction has not exempted the pieties about it. People who said it was “just the flu” don’t look wise after nearly 540,000 deaths in the US. But “14 days to flatten the curve” didn’t turn out to be prescient either. The more partisan the narrative, the worse it has fared. Liberals have spent much of the pandemic ...