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DUBAI / WAM The Ministry of Education (MoE), announced that the UAE advanced eight points in mathematics skills, according to the results of the recent edition of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2018, which were officially announced for the participating countries at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), headquarters in Paris. The United Arab Emirates achieved ...

Bloomberg France’s government said the European Union (EU) would retaliate if the US follows through on a threat to hit about $2.4 billion of French products with tariffs over a dispute concerning how large tech companies are taxed. “It’s not worthy of an ally, and it’s not the behaviour we expect from the US towards one of its main allies, ...

Bloomberg Volkswagen AG is facing one of the largest-ever UK class action lawsuits, with almost 100,000 vehicle owners accusing it of misleading them by installing emissions-cheating software that made it appear their diesel vehicles met environmental standards. Lawyers for the drivers opened their case and must first prove that the allegations belong in court. They need judges to follow findings ...

Bloomberg Euro-zone factory activity rose to a three-month high last month, though job losses continued as the sector remained stuck in a slump. The Purchasing Managers’ Index for the 19-nation euro region rose slightly to 46.9 in November as confidence improved and a drop in new orders slowed. The reading was up from a preliminary 46.6 but still below the ...

Bloomberg Twitter Inc Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey returned from a trip touring African startups ready to go back. He said in a Twitter post recently that he’ll spend three to six months somewhere on the continent next year. Dorsey had spent much of November meeting with startups and people in the tech industry in South Africa, Ethiopia, Nigeria and ...

Bloomberg Chinese students far out-stripped peers in every other country in a survey of reading, math and science ability, underscoring a reserve of future economic strength and the struggle of advanced economies to keep up. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s triennial study of 15 year-old students across the world found that the four Chinese provinces tested — ...

Bloomberg China raised its 2025 sales target for electrified cars as the government tries to spur an industry that’s showing signs of slowing down. The country wants about 25% of new cars sold by 2025 to be electrified, according to a draft policy published by the ministry of industry and information technology. Its last roadmap on the industry announced in ...

Bloomberg Chinese state media said the government will soon publish a list of “unreliable entities” that could lead to sanctions against US companies, signalling trade talks between the two nations are increasingly under threat from disputes over human rights in Hong Kong and Xinjiang. The Communist Party-backed Global Times said in a tweet that the list was being sped up ...

Bloomberg A California college student has sued TikTok, the viral video service run by social media giant ByteDance Inc, for secretly funnelling her personal information to China while using her videos to create an online profile for targeted ads. The lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of California by full-time university student Misty Hong, alleges TikTok harvested her videos, gathered ...

Bloomberg Nissan Motor Co’s new chief executive officer said he is looking at what works and what doesn’t in the alliance with Renault SA and Mitsubishi Motors Corp, stressing that the partnership needs to benefit all parties. Makoto Uchida, appointed after a year of turmoil following the arrest of Carlos Ghosn, said in his first media conference that changes are ...