DUBAI / WAM Enoc group has announced the opening of a service station on Sheikh Zayed Road en route to Abu Dhabi. Conveniently located near interchange 11 for motorists travelling from Dubai towards capital. Built with 10 bridged canopies comprising 20 multimedia fuel dispensers, Enoc’s new service station is equipped with eight fuel tanks with a capacity of 15,000 imperial ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Waste Management Centre (Tadweer) has announced the reopening of Ghayathi Crusher in Al Dhafra Region as part of the centre’s strategic plan to promote environmental sustainability and develop an integrated waste management system in Abu Dhabi. Aimed to lower construction and demolition (C&D) waste in the emirate, the facility can handle 2,000 tons of ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 207,432 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement on Sunday, 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 ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The National Health Insurance Company – Daman has launched the first digital smart branch service in the GCC health insurance sector: the Hayakom-Thiqa smart branch. The innovative smart branch provides all the services of a Thiqa branch and works through an advance appointment system that allows members to choose a convenient time to virtually meet a ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, met with Sayyid Badr Hamad al-Busaidi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Oman, as part of his official visit to Oman. During the meeting, both sides discussed the strong historic ties between the UAE and Oman and ways of strengthening their ...

Dubai / WAM HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Minister of Finance and Chairman of the Al Maktoum Foundation, has ordered the donation of $500,000 to the Khartoum-based International University of Africa for the 2020-2021 academic year. The move is in recognition of the university’s role in the field of higher education and Africa and ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Future Accelerators (DFA), an initiative of the Dubai Future Foundation (DFF), has announced that the second phase of the eighth edition of its flagship programme is well underway to position Dubai as a leading city of the future. Being hosted at the DFF’s innovation ecosystem, AREA 2071, the Fall Cohort’s participating entities include Dubai Roads and ...

The City of London’s chief coping mechanism for dealing with Brexit’s threat to the financial services business is to dismiss the loss of jobs and investment as a trickle rather than a flood. Yes, cheerleaders argue, some 7,500 jobs have been moved to the European Union, but that’s a fraction of the hundreds of thousands predicted by the doomsayers. Sure, ...

When India’s minister for commerce and industry recently urged his followers to “connect with me” on Koo, an “Indian micro-blogging platform,” he did so on Twitter. That should be a lesson to the US social media giant: In its battles with India’s government and others around the world, the platform needn’t surrender its principles too easily. The implied threat from ...

Along with the news that founder and long-time Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos “will transition to the role of Executive Chair in the third quarter of 2021,” Amazon.com Inc’s fourth-quarter earnings release included the remarkable if not exactly surprising disclosure that the company had spent $42.7 billion on “technology and content” in 2020, up 19% from the year before and ...