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Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) has announced that the first remote litigation hearings using the video-conferencing technology took place on Monday, where the Commercial Summary Matters Court examined 4 urgent commercial cases in the presence of all parties. This move, the ADJD said, is part of the telecommuting and business continuity plan adopted by the ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority (NCEMA), held a joint meeting with the Emirates Scientists Council, to discuss ways of employing scientific research to contain the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19). The meeting was attended by Sarah bint Yousif Al Amiri, Minister of State for Advanced Sciences and President of the Emirates Scientists Council, Saif ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Chamber announced the addition of more e-services to its digital platform, including attesting documents electronically, and annulling e-services subscription fees in support of its digital approach. The new services come within the government’s campaign “Stay at Home”, a press release issued by Abu Dhabi Chamber said on Monday. The initiative is also in ...

Bloomberg All it might take to shut down the mighty economic engine of Tokyo is a few dozen more mystery cases or a jump in infections into the hundreds rather than the thousands seen elsewhere in the world. Japan has remained relatively free of the pandemic that has turned New York into a ghost town and shuttered economies in Europe, ...

Bloomberg Just two weeks after South Korea adopted one extra budget, President Moon Jae-in said another is already being planned to help insulate households against the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The budget would provide payments to families below the top 30 percentile of income, with some four-person households getting about 1 million won ($815), Moon said on Monday at ...

Bloomberg The Philippines identified additional measures to ensure sufficient food supply amid a month-long lockdown of the country’s main island of Luzon as it tries to contain the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. The government plans to import 300,000 metric tons of rice, if necessary, through state deals with Southeast Asian partners, or through sources such as India and Pakistan, ...

Bloomberg Toyota Motor Corp and other Japanese automakers reported steep drops in output in February as the coronavirus outbreak accelerated across the world, a sign that business conditions will get worse for them before any improvement. Japan’s biggest automaker reported that its global production fell 13.8% in February from a year earlier. Worldwide production for the Toyota Group, which includes ...

Bloomberg It’s the phone calls at all hours of the night he remembers. As swine flu ravaged northern India in 2015, a radiologist working at a hospital in a Delhi suburb said people would call begging for a bed. That outbreak ultimately infected more than 31,000 people and killed nearly 2,000, as many died waiting for treatment. With the far ...

Bloomberg Indonesia may soon quarantine almost 30 million people in its capital and surrounding areas to curb the spread of the coronavirus that’s killed more than 100 people in the world’s fourth-most populous nation. Police and transport officials conducted drills on limiting the movement of people from the Greater Jakarta area at the weekend, the Jakarta Post reported. The governor ...

Bloomberg The sale by the UK’s billionaire Barclay twins of London’s Ritz Hotel fetched less than 800 million pounds ($997 million), according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified. Macfarlanes said in a statement that it advised one of its private investor clients on the acquisition of the hotel that opened in London’s Mayfair ...