DUBAI / WAM Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) announced the activation of the 3D Printing Strategic Alliance, launched in July 2020 by HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Chairman of Dubai Executive Council and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of DFF, during a virtual workshop that focused on 3D printing technology and its ...
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Commercial establishments fully committed to Covid-19 guidelines
DUBAI / WAM Field inspectors from the Commercial Compliance and Consumer Protection (CCCP) sector in Dubai Economy continued their visits to a number of open markets and shopping centres across the emirate to make sure that commercial establishments commit to the precautionary measures against Covid-19. Remarkably, all 454 businesses inspected at open markets and shopping centres were found to have ...
Read More »UAE, Senegal discuss ways to boost ties
DAKAR / WAM The UAE Ambassador to Senegal Sultan Ali Al Harbi had a meeting with Moustapha Niasse, Speaker of the Senegalese National Assembly. They discussed relations between the UAE and Senegal, and opportunities to develop ties between the two countries in various fields. During meeting held at the National Assembly headquarters, the two sides also discussed issues of common ...
Read More »GE targets carbon neutrality by 2030
Bloomberg General Electric Co aims to be carbon-neutral at its more than 1,000 factories and other facilities worldwide by 2030, leaving aside emissions from the fossil-fuel burning products that have defined much of the company’s recent history. Accomplishing its goal will mean eliminating the 2.39 million metric tons of carbon dioxide produced by the company’s operations in 2019 — roughly ...
Read More »Next China? India must first beat Bangladesh
India’s Covid-19 economic gloom turned into despair on news that its per capita gross domestic product may be lower for 2020 than in neighbouring Bangladesh. “Any emerging economy doing well is good news,†Kaushik Basu, a former World Bank chief economist, tweeted after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) updated its World Economic Outlook. “But it’s shocking that India, which had ...
Read More »Maybe Apple isn’t as green as it claims
Upgrading to an iPhone 12? Apple Inc is happy to take your old phone off your hands. “If it’s in good shape, we’ll help it go to a new owner,†the company promises on the website promoting its trade-in program. “If not, we’ll send it to our recycling partner, so we can save more precious materials and take less from ...
Read More »Ardern’s win is a vote for Covid competence
For governments facing a growing wave of coronavirus cases as fall turns to winter, there’s a stark lesson in the stunning election victory for New Zealand’s incumbent Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern: Voters really want their governments to suppress the pandemic. A landslide victory means Ardern could govern with the first outright majority since her country adopted proportional representation in the ...
Read More »Can Trump be trusted on ‘health conditions’
President Donald Trump keeps on saying he’ll protect people with pre-existing health conditions even if he succeeds in killing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — and, oddly enough, quite a few people appear to believe him. Yet he has no plan for an alternative to the ACA, and he hasn’t said how he means to keep his promise to protect ...
Read More »Boeing explores selling Seattle-area jetliner HQ
Bloomberg Boeing Co is weighing whether to jettison the Seattle-area headquarters of its commercial-airplane division as it cuts costs and stockpiles cash. A sale of the Longacres industrial park would also include an adjacent building once used to train airline pilots. Boeing converted the wooded suburban campus from a horse-racing track in the 1990s, and the property has 855,000 square-feet ...
Read More »American sets new flight for Max debut
Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc plans to make Boeing Co 737 Max passenger flights at the end of this year for the first time since the aircraft’s grounding in March 2019. The Max will serve the busy Miami-New York corridor once a day starting December 29 through January 4, American said. The airline will “take a phased approach†to returning ...
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