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Abu Dhabi’s three malls to offer up to 90% discounts

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Offering the best seasonal deals, Aldar Properties (‘Aldar’) has partnered with the Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi (DCT) to launch the Code Red Sale across all three of its malls – Yas Mall, The Mall at World Trade Center Abu Dhabi (The Mall at WTCAD) and Al Jimi Mall in Al Ain. Held ...

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Dewa to develop innovative, futuristic solutions using AI

Dubai / WAM The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa), has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), with Whizkey Future labs, a start-up company, to develop innovative and futuristic solutions to disrupt the current electricity and water utility business models. This will be done using Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), blockchain, robotics, and other technologies to improve performance, ...

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Pegasus inaugural flight lands at Sharjah airport

Sharjah / WAM Sharjah Airport has received the inaugural flight of Pegasus Airline, arriving from Sabiha Airport in Istanbul. Pegasus airline, the Turkish carrier, introduced its new daily service on Sharjah-Istanbul route in response to the increasing demand for travel to and from Sharjah due to the regional and global importance of Sharjah Airport as a passenger hub. The route ...

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Dubai Customs wins ‘innovation’ award

Dubai / WAM Dubai Customs has crowned its achievements in 2018 by winning the 2nd Organisation – Wide Innovation Award from the Global Organisational Excellence Congress, hosted by Abu Dhabi in December. Ahmed Abdul Salam Kazim, Director of Strategy and Corporate Excellence at Dubai Customs, Hussain Al Fardan, Dubai Customs’ Innovation Centre senior manager and the team received the grand ...

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Musanada committed to install advanced fire detectors

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi General Services Company, Musanada, has affirmed that it remains fully committed to the installation of advanced safety sensing systems across buildings and housing projects constructed by the company in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Al Dhafrah, including the fire detection devices (gas, smoke, heat and flame detectors) equipped with state-of-the-art smart technologies. The ...

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Kenya needs $888mn for green projects

Bloomberg Kenya needs about $85 million annually in the short term for green projects in agriculture, transport and manufacturing, and as much as $888 million annually during the follow- ing five to 10 years, according to a banking industry lobby. The financing is needed to counter the effects of rapid climate change that could erase about 2 percent of economic ...

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Suncor confronts ‘unintended consequences’ of Alberta oil cuts

Bloomberg Suncor Energy Inc is working with Alberta’s government to help mitigate the “unintended consequences” of mandated oil cuts, a policy company opposed from the start and now says is hitting it disproportionately hard. Suncor said its initial required output curtailment is higher than the 8.7 percent industrywide level, without giving specific amount. That makes it harder to maintain safe ...

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BMW faces criminal probe in S Korea over engine fires

Bloomberg BMW AG is facing a criminal probe in South Korea after investigators concluded the manufacturer concealed fire hazards and delayed recalls for a problem that has dented sales and its reputation in the Asian country. South Korea’s transport ministry plans to ask prosecutors to investigate the German carmaker, the ministry said in a statement on Monday. Korea also fined ...

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Huawei kit removed from police network

Bloomberg Huawei Technologies Co. gear will be ripped out of the core part of a UK communications network for police and other emergency responders. BT Group Plc., the company delivering the 2.3-billion-pound ($3 billion) project, has been pulling equipment from the Chinese tech giant out of its own core structure since the 2016 acquisition of mobile carrier EE, which used ...

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