DUBAI / WAM Customs Training Centre at Dubai Customs organised 665 training sessions in the first nine months of this year, including 609 sessions on the digital platforms. These training workshops and programmes targeted 3,348 employees from different divisions in Dubai Customs. In 26,000 training hours in total, it covered topics such as customs risk evaluation, smuggling methods, security sense, ...

DUBAI / WAM On December 26, Majid Al Futtaim Malls across Dubai will host the 12-Hour Sale, with huge savings of 25 percent to 90 percent available at Mall of the Emirates, City Centre Mirdif, City Centre Deira, City Centre Me’aisem, My City Centre Al Barsha and City Centre Al Shindagha. Running from 10am to 10pm, the epic one-day promotion ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Municipality has won the global Most Innovative Knowledge Enterprise (MIKE) award, making it one of the five best institutions in the world in the field of knowledge management and innovation. One of the oldest and most prestigious international awards in the field, the MIKE Award is a global benchmarking study that assesses effective knowledge management and ...

DUBAI / WAM As part of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) roadmap, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has launched phase 3 of Rammas, its virtual AI employee, for customers to obtain additional services such as Easy Pay, Dewa Store offers and participate in the Customer Happiness Index. Project builders, including consultants and contractors, can track their applications for NOC certificates, ...

Bloomberg Danish electrolyser startup Green Hydrogen Systems A/S raised 28 million euros ($34.3 million) to scale up production of the technology that’s at the heart of the European Union’s climate goals. Competition is heating up among makers of the machines to capture a wave of orders that will make up the EU’s first generation of utility-scale green hydrogen production funded ...

Bloomberg Austria’s biggest company, also one of Europe’s greenest utilities, is buying into natural gas pipelines to build a new hydrogen economy for power-hungry industries. Verbund AG’S decision to purchase a network of pipelines this year perplexed some analysts. Unlike German and Italian utilities expanding in green power across the continent, the Austrian utility opted to deploy cash in domestic ...

Bloomberg Liquefied natural gas has made a dramatic rebound from a pandemic-induced demand collapse, and the rally in the heating and power-plant fuel could extend into next year. The onset of colder weather in key importing nations, outages at major production hubs and congestion along global shipping routes have combined to push spot prices in Asia this week to the ...

Bloomberg Clean-energy stocks are surging as the US Congress considers extending tax breaks for wind and solar energy. JinkoSolar Holding Co, one of the world’s biggest publicly traded panel producers gained as much as 16% last week. Sunrun Inc, the biggest US residential solar installer, rose as much as 7.7%. SunPower Corp climbed as much as 12%. Congress has debated ...

Amid the Covid-19 crisis, three out of four Indians are experiencing their first recession. As might be expected, women are bearing the brunt of the pain — and the consequences could be long-lasting. A tiny elite of urban, educated women has benefited from the shift to remote work under lockdown: A recent study released by LinkedIn, based on internal data ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and members of his government risk significant political damage for their decision to introduce extremely tough restrictions on London and parts of the southeast England and withdraw a significant part of the social accommodations they had announced for Christmas gatherings. Yet as Johnson said in a widely watched briefing to the nation, “when the science ...