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    SHARJAH / WAM His Highness Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler of Sharjah and Chairman of Sharjah Executive Council (SEC), has chaired the council’s meeting, which took place on Tuesday at the Ruler’s Office, in the presence of HH Sheikh Sultan bin Ahmed bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Deputy Ruler of Sharjah. ...

  Dubai / WAM Embodying the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, the UAE government launched the Coders HQ, a new transformational project that re-defines local coding communities, in partnership with more than 40 companies in the UAE and worldwide. The project, established in ...

  DUBAI / WAM Embodying the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, the UAE government launched the Coders HQ, a new transformational project that re-defines local coding communities, in partnership with more than 40 companies in the UAE and worldwide. The project, established in ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM EcoWASTE 2022 Exhibition and Forum, organised by Abu Dhabi Waste Management Centre (Tadweer) will open under the slogan “Exploring Future Opportunities for Waste Management to Achieve a Circular Economy” on January 17. The exhibition was announced during a media event, organised by Tadweer. EcoWASTE 2022 will be held in Abu Dhabi from January 17-19 at ...

  SHARJAH / WAM Air Arabia has been named the most punctual airline in 2021 at Moscow Domodedovo Airport in the category of ‘Foreign Airlines with more than seven flights per week.’ Moscow Domodedovo Airport, the largest in Russia, announced the winners of the most punctual airline, with the goal of further enhancing the quality of passenger service. The airport ...

  Bloomberg Canada’s labour market beat expectations in December, a strong end to a record year for employment gains. Employment rises 54,700 last month, Statistics Canada reported in Ottawa. That’s more than double the 25,000 gain economists were predicting in a Bloomberg survey. Full-time jobs actually surged by 123,000, as many part-time workers shifted to more permanent employment — another ...

  Bloomberg Germany suffered its costliest natural disaster on record last year, as flash floods led to damages that vastly exceeded the amount covered by insurers. Torrential rainfall that devastated parts of western Germany in July 2021 cost Europe’s biggest economy $40 billion, according to a Munich Re report. Roughly a quarter of that will be met by the insurance ...

  Bloomberg The New York Times Co agreed to buy the Athletic, acquiring a sports-news website with more than 1 million subscribers. The newspaper publisher is paying $550 million for the Athletic, which will remain a standalone product, Times Chief Executive Officer Meredith Kopit Levien said in a statement. The deal is expected to close by the end of March. ...

  Bloomberg UK property developers must contribute to a 4 billion-pound-fund ($5.4 billion) to fix dangerous cladding on low-rise apartment blocks by March or face new regulations that would force them to pay, Housing Secretary Michael Gove said. Gove said it was “morally wrong” that homeowners were still trapped in unsafe and unsellable apartments more than four years after the ...

Bloomberg Polish inflation hit a 21-year-high, exceeding most analysts’ forecasts and boosting expectations that the central bank will keep raising interest rates. Consumer prices in December jumped 8.6% from a year earlier, compared with 7.8% in November, preliminary data showed. The reading was above a median of 8.2% in a Bloomberg survey of 23 economists. This week, Governor Adam Glapinski ...