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  Abu Dhabi / WAM Held under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential Court, Adnec group and Emirates News Agency (WAM) have announced that the Innovate Stage will take place this year as part of the inaugural Global Media Congress. The Innovate Stage will be a unique feature ...

Bloomberg President Xi Jinping had a clear message to those who want to thwart China’s rise: You will fail. In a speech running almost two hours on Sunday, Xi let the world know that China wouldn’t change course even as it faces “dangerous storms” in a more hostile world. Instead, he declared the “rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is now ...

  Bloomberg As Germany grapples with an energy crisis threatening its future as an industrial leader, an acute shortage of workers is compounding problems for manufacturers already struggling to stay competitive. The lack of qualified labour — brought on by an aging population and exacerbated by the pandemic — is starving manufacturers from Airbus SE to BMW AG to BASF ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has marked another breakthrough by achieving the Guinness World Records title for the second time for owning and managing the Largest Single-Site Water Desalination Facility in the World with production capacity of 490 million Imperial Gallons of water per Day, which is equivalent to 2,227,587 cubic metres per day. This ...

Dubai / WAM The 1 Billion Meals initiative, the region’s largest food donation drive to support the underprivileged and undernourished in 50 countries across four continents, announced the completion of the distribution of more than 2.5 million meals across seven Asian countries, in collaboration with the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Humanitarian and Charity Establishment (MBRCH). Organised by Mohammed bin ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Foreign Experts Court of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) has managed to maintain high adjudication rates in the cases brought before it over three years since it started operating in 2019, achieving a 90 percent disposition rate out of a total number of about 200 commercial cases submitted to its consideration, and totalling a ...

Dubai / WAM Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced the commencement of e-scooters operations in 11 new residential areas from the start of 2023. As such, the total number of districts in which e-scooters are permitted to operate increases to 21, and the total length of tracks dedicated to ...

Bloomberg A senior Nato official confronted a Chinese diplomat over China’s failure to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, injecting tension over the war into an international conference about the Arctic. The unusually frank exchange between Admiral Rob Bauer, chair of the alliance’s Military Committee, and He Rulong, China’s ambassador to Iceland, followed a speech by Bauer on Nato’s role ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM EQT has announced that the EQT Infrastructure III and IV funds (EQT Infrastructure) signed an agreement to sell a minority stake in GlobalConnect to Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala). Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, GlobalConnect is a fiber-based data communication and data centre services provider to enterprises, public institutions, and consumers in Northern Europe. The company was ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (Adafsa) launched Food Import and Export Management Information System (Fiemis) during its participation in Gitex Technology Week 2022. The platform allows food import and export services through the Advanced Trade and Logistics Platform (ATLP) operated by Abu Dhabi Ports’ Maqta Gateway and under the Abu Dhabi Department ...