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  DUBAI / WAM Emirates is activating a new codeshare partnership on Monday with Aegean, allowing its customers to benefit from increased connectivity to eight domestic Greek points via Athens, using a single ticket. Emirates will place its code on Aegean operated flights, providing customers with a convenient and seamless booking experience as well as one consistent baggage policy, to ...

  Dubai / WAM The Museum of the Future signed a strategic partnership agreement with Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) to showcase unique technologies and solutions related to the future of environmental sustainability and renewable energy. The agreement aims to pave the way for constructive research that helps solve today’s ecological challenges. This agreement is working towards enhancing Dubai’s ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM Zayed University (ZU) has launched “The UAE Inclusive Youth Network”, which successfully educated and trained 41 students over the summer of 2022 to become peer educators and facilitators in topics related to People of Determination inclusivity, accessibility, and technology. The Youth Network, was initiated by the Department of Student Accessibility Services at Zayed University and ...

  Abu Dhabi / Gulf Time Emirates Health Services (EHS) has announced the launch its new Smart Health Services application to provide a bundle of health services, including booking a medical appointment, requesting a medical report, home care, and viewing medical records. The launch of the application forms part of EHS’ efforts to continuously develop its digital system and is ...

  SHARJAH / WAM Sharjah Charity International (SCI) revealed that the number of orphans it has sponsored for the first half of 2022 has reached 27,055. SCI allocated AED31.6 million to sponsor the orphans in more than 21 countries around the world, in addition to sponsoring orphans inside the country in cooperation with the Sharjah Social Services Department. Mohammed Rashid ...

  DUBAI / WAM The Information & Communication Technology Sector Development Fund (ICT Fund) has announced that scholarships granted by the “Be’tha” programme have reached 1,876 since the launch of the programme back in 2010. The scholarships focused on developing national human cadres in ICT-related disciplines such as Telecommunications Engineering, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, ...

  Bloomberg Investors wanting to gauge the health of global consumer sentiment should look no further than China’s factories right now. Makers of Christmas decorations to clothing and tents say orders from overseas customers are drying up, with some predicting the best they can aim for is flat demand versus last year, according to more than a dozen export managers ...

  Bloomberg Fintech firm Lufax Holding Ltd is planning to go public in Hong Kong, the latest in a wave of New York-traded Chinese companies seeking alternative listings to hedge against the risk of being banned from US markets. The Ping An Insurance Group Co-backed company aims to file for a listing in Hong Kong as soon as the second ...

  Bloomberg Rice output in India may suffer this year as poor rains in key growing areas shrink plantings, raising concerns that the top exporter could curb shipments after restricting wheat and sugar sales to safeguard food security. Total rice acreage in the South Asian nation, the world’s second-biggest grower, has fallen 12% so far this season, according to the ...

  Bloomberg Bhavish Aggarwal, who founded India’s top ride-hailing startup and then moved into manufacturing electric scooters, is expanding his business empire again, unveiling plans to enter the electric-car market in competition with local giants like Tata Group and global automakers from Hyundai Motor to Tesla. The 36-year-old entrepreneur said that Ola aims to launch its first electric car in ...