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ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Waste Management Centre (Tadweer) on Sunday opened an environmentally friendly waste treatment complex named “Eco Park” as part of its efforts to promote sustainable waste management in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Located about 70 kilometres from Abu Dhabi city on Hamim Road, the complex is spread over an area of 1.8 million square ...

DUBAI / WAM Customs Training Centre at Dubai Customs organised 665 training sessions in the first nine months of this year, including 609 sessions on the digital platforms. These training workshops and programmes targeted 3,348 employees from different divisions in Dubai Customs. In 26,000 training hours in total, it covered topics such as customs risk evaluation, smuggling methods, security sense, ...

DUBAI / WAM On December 26, Majid Al Futtaim Malls across Dubai will host the 12-Hour Sale, with huge savings of 25 percent to 90 percent available at Mall of the Emirates, City Centre Mirdif, City Centre Deira, City Centre Me’aisem, My City Centre Al Barsha and City Centre Al Shindagha. Running from 10am to 10pm, the epic one-day promotion ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Municipality has won the global Most Innovative Knowledge Enterprise (MIKE) award, making it one of the five best institutions in the world in the field of knowledge management and innovation. One of the oldest and most prestigious international awards in the field, the MIKE Award is a global benchmarking study that assesses effective knowledge management and ...

DUBAI / WAM As part of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) roadmap, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has launched phase 3 of Rammas, its virtual AI employee, for customers to obtain additional services such as Easy Pay, Dewa Store offers and participate in the Customer Happiness Index. Project builders, including consultants and contractors, can track their applications for NOC certificates, ...

Bloomberg More than 16 million Britons are now required to stay at home as a lockdown came into force Sunday in London and southeast England, part of Boris Johnson’s attempt to control a fast-spreading new strain of the coronavirus. The measures ban household mixing in the capital and the southeast, and restrict socialising to just Christmas Day across the rest ...

Bloomberg The UK will spend as much as 11.7 billion pounds ($15.7 billion) on purchasing, manufacturing and roll-out of coronavirus vaccines, according to estimates from the public spending watchdog. The National Audit Office (NAO) said in a report the cost includes UK investment in global efforts to find a vaccine — but not the potential future expense of any multiyear ...

Bloomberg Microsoft Corp. said its systems were exposed to the malware used in the Russia-linked hack that targeted US states and government agencies, adding that investigations so far show the malicious software wasn’t used to attack others and didn’t impact customer data or outward-facing systems. The company is a customer of SolarWinds Corp., whose software the hackers are believed to ...

Bloomberg Tesla Inc. halted some construction work at its German plant project after failing to make a security deposit with local authorities. Brandenburg’s environment ministry stopped tree removal activity and the installation of paint-shop machinery at the site until the funds are received, reports said. Tesla needs to provide a 100 million-euro ($122 million) deposit with local authorities to cover ...

Bloomberg Italy is set to keep its economic policy expansionary next year to support its coronavirus-battered economy, as agreed with European Union partners, Finance Minister Roberto Gualtieri said in an interview with La Stampa on Sunday. That could require widening the deficit further next year to support economic growth, but that won’t impact a planned reduction after 2021 and will ...