Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 152,588 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. As part of its intensified testing campaign, MoHAP announced 1,963 new coronavirus cases, bringing total number of recorded cases in UAE to 211,641. The ministry also noted that an additional 2,081 ...

AL AIN / WAM The Al Muwaiji Palace, which was built on the western side of Al Ain, close to the Al Muwaiji Oasis nearly 100 years ago, is one of the distinctive historic buildings in the city. The construction of the palace represents an elegant example of the architecture that relied on bricks to build forts and palaces at ...

Sharjah / WAM Hamriyah Free Zone Authority (HFZA) reinforced its reputation and position as a prominent destination regionally and globally despite of the Covid-19’s global economic fallout, after two giant African petrochemicals companies (Global Vision Specialty Chemicals & Proud Lubricants and Grease IND) announced investments in the free zone by leasing over 1,076,391 square feet plots of land. The deal ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) has launched a digital authentication project allowing the approval of documents issued by the ADJD’s systems in an integrated digital manner and compatible with the UAE PASS digital identification system. The project will be applied to the notary public and authentication operations as part of the completion of the digital ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) added several innovative features for its consumption verification request service, using multi-resource scheduling and master data management. Customer can now use the new ‘auto-scheduling’ feature to make an appointment for a technical team visit with real-time updates of status, enhancing accuracy of these appointments. Dewa has also added the ‘Virtual Call ...

As the year began, so it ended. Early in 2020, the pandemic blindsided governments, which dithered over both the scientific and moral imperatives while much of the populace indulged in selfish and conflicted behaviour that seemed to belong in “Glengarry Glen Ross” or “Lord of the Flies” rather than in a modern democracy. Those same problems now afflict the distribution ...

Count 2020 as a lucky year. This may sound odd given that the world grappled with a pandemic that has killed close to 1.8 million people and crippled many countries’ economies. The “luck” relates to the more than 90% efficacy of the two vaccines — Pfizer Inc-BioNTech SE’s shot and Moderna Inc’s candidate — that gained emergency approval after thorough ...

Bloomberg News recently reported that pandemic-induced economic deprivation, two fierce hurricanes and the hope that a new administration might ease security threaten to create a new wave of migrants at America’s southern border. “There are going to be caravans, and in the coming weeks it will increase,” said the head of a civil-society organisation in Guatemala. With the pandemic far ...

In 2019, Boris Johnson took power in Britain. In 2020, he took back control, leading his country out of the European Union. In the year to come, those voters who made it all possible will be expecting to see some of the benefits he promised. They will ultimately provide the thumbs up or down on Johnson’s big Brexit project and ...

Bloomberg Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen opened 2021 by reaffirming her willingness to talk with China, while vowing to stand up to mounting military pressure from Beijing. Tsai used a brief News Year’s Day address to criticise the near-daily patrols of Chinese military ships and aircraft that have stretched Taiwan’s more limited military resources. She warned that the actions had “threatened ...