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  Abu Dhabi / WAM DP World, a leading global end-to-end logistics provider, on Thursday announced the creation of DPMETAWORLD, a new initiative aimed at bringing cutting edge virtual solutions to real-world supply chain challenges. Across the industries in which DP World operates, supply chains are moving from analogue to embrace new digital solutions. This project will allow DP World ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM A delegation from UAE University (UAEU) was welcomed at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) by Professor Fakhri Karray, Provost of MBZUAI, and Sultan Al Hajji, Vice President for Public Affairs and Alumni Relations. Professor Ahmed Ali Murad, the Associate Provost for Research, who was also in attendance, highlighted that the visit aimed ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The General Pension and Social Security Authority (GPSSA) announced on Thursday that pensions for May are due to be disbursed on Friday. This month’s pensions amount to AED646,085,610.82, which is an increase of AED59,468,297.02 in comparison to May 2021, during which the value of pensions amounted to AED586,617,313.80, the UAE pension authority explained. GPSSA explained ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) on Thursday announced a collaboration with the American University of Sharjah’ (AUS) College of Engineering to research the economic and environmental benefits of re-using food waste to enrich manufactured soils made from bauxite residue, and further applications in waste-to-energy. The AED1.6 million three-year research project is the second phase of EGA’s ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has won three Global Excellence Assembly Awards 2022. These are the Excellence in Innovation Award, the Business Innovation Award, and the Outstanding Customer Service Award. Dewa is the first entity to win three awards in the same cycle based on the Baldrige Excellence Framework criteria, the highest level of recognition for ...

  Bloomberg The gap in inflation experienced by the richest and poorest households in the UK has expanded to its widest level in at least 16 years, according to a report by the Resolution Foundation think-tank. Soaring energy bills as well as higher food costs have sent the UK’s overall inflation rate to a 40-year high of 9%. But headline ...

  Bloomberg Apple Inc is raising salaries for workers in the US by 10% or more as it faces a tight labour market and the spread of unionisation efforts across its retail stores. The Cupertino, California-based company is expanding its overall compensation budget this year, it said in a statement. It will hike minimum hourly pay for its staff to ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE began a new era of clean energy production and climate neutrality by producing the first kilowatt (KW) of energy from waste, through the inauguration of the Sharjah Waste-to-Energy Plant. The plant, the first of its kind in the region, will help turn nearly 300,000 tonnes of waste into energy annually, producing 30 megawatts ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE’s non-oil foreign trade in the first quarter (Q1) of 2022 was close to AED500 billion for the first time in the country’s history, totalling AED499.7 billion, a growth of 20.5 percent compared to AED414.6 billion recorded in the same period of 2021, according to the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre. This figure is ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (Seha) has launched a new Mobile Visa Screening Clinic that can visit employees at workplaces across the UAE capital. The mobile visa screening clinic of Seha features two examination rooms, two x-ray rooms, a blood collection room, and two waiting areas with 12 chairs. The client’s journey, which takes 15 to ...