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DUBAI / WAM The Dubai Health Authority’s (DHA) Dubai Blood Donation Centre has launched the 9th edition of the ‘Dami Le Watani’ (My Blood, for My Country) blood donation campaign. The campaign, which was created in 2012, under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive ...

DUBAI / WAM Suhail bin Mohammed Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, said that the latest oil discoveries in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi will drive economic growth in the UAE and strengthen its position as a credible energy supplier. The Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC), announced the discovery of substantial recoverable unconventional oil resources located onshore, estimated at 22 ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Tadweer, the Abu Dhabi Waste Management Centre, has launched a marine waste vessel in Al Dhafra Region of Abu Dhabi. The first of its kind facility in the emirate of Abu Dhabi will be used to transfer different types of solid waste from Dalma Island in Al Dhafra Region to Ruwais landfill on a regular basis. ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Nawah Energy Company, Nawah, the joint venture nuclear operations and maintenance subsidiary of the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (Enec) and Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco), recently celebrated the graduation of the first UAE National leaders from its Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant Management Certification program. Nawah has designed the program to develop UAE National leaders in managing ...

DUBAI / WAM Moro Hub (Data Hub Integrated Solutions) a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has announced its collaboration with IBM to launch IBM Power Systems as a cloud service for the first time in Dubai. The new cloud service will enable organisations to benefit from improved performance and high data processing speeds, while reducing operating ...

Bloomberg Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the UK plans to start rolling out two coronavirus vaccines next month before the program gathers pace in the new year, with a return to “normal” possible in the spring. Hancock was responding to trial results announced on Monday by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc showing their Covid-19 vaccine prevented a majority ...

Bloomberg Jeff Bezos gave $684 million of Amazon.com Inc stock to non-profits, days after posting on Instagram that he’d chosen 16 organisations to be the first recipients of money from the Bezos Earth Fund. The world’s richest man donated 220,825 shares of the e-commerce juggernaut, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The Amazon founder has ...

Bloomberg Zurich Insurance Group AG said it’s in talks to buy MetLife Inc’s US property and casualty unit, which offers coverage for homes and automobiles. “Zurich subsidiary, Farmers Group Inc, is proposing to acquire the business in conjunction with the Farmers Exchanges,” the Swiss insurer said in a statement. “The terms of any transaction are subject to negotiations and there ...

Bloomberg Google’s planned changes to advertising data were targeted by a group of rivals who pushed UK regulators to make the company a top antitrust priority. Marketers for an Open Web is asking the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to temporarily halt Google’s rollout of so-called privacy sandbox technology next year, it said in an emailed statement on Monday. The ...

Bloomberg Germany is moving towards extending and tightening its shutdown restrictions, setting measures that would rein in New Year’s festivities as the country struggles to slow the stubborn spread of the coronavirus. Germany’s regional leaders are proposing that a partial lockdown that was due to run until the end of November is extended until at least December 20. The measures ...