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  Abu Dhabi / WAM Adnoc Drilling Company PJSC (Adnoc Drilling) on Wednesday announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire an additional two premium high-specification Gusto MSC CJ46-X100-D design offshore jack-up drilling units. The rigs have a combined cost of $200 million. The acquisition is part of the company’s fleet expansion and growth strategy that is a key ...

    Dubai / WAM The Dubai Foundation for Women and Children (DFWAC) has launched “mobile rehabilitation services” initiative to offer mobile services through home, school, and business visits by the care and rehabilitation department, to ease customer access to the foundation’s services. The initiative will help women and children who have fallen victims to domestic abuse or human trafficking, ...

Dubai / WAM A new AI-powered mobile application for detecting crop disorders was unveiled by Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri, Minister of Climate Change and the Environment, during a ceremony at the headquarters of the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA). Called Dr Nabat, the application is a result of collaboration between ICBA and the University of Barcelona, Spain, under a ...

  Dubai / WAM In line with Dubai’s drive to become the world’s smart mobility hub, Dubai South on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Evocargo for the launch of the UAE’s first autonomous vehicle trials for cargo at the master development’s Logistics District. The trials will see EVO.1, Evocargo’s unmanned electric logistics vehicle, navigate Dubai South’s Logistics ...

  Bloomberg China seems to be embracing a fast and explosive Covid reopening, a risky approach that’s worrying observers given the vast country’s vulnerabilities. Since embarking on a landmark shift away from its zero-tolerance policy just a week ago, China has dismantled most of its internal restrictions, casting aside the stringent playbook used to eliminate the virus for the past ...

  Bloomberg Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd plans to invest 100 billion rupees ($1.2 billion) in a plant to make electric sports utility vehicles, a significant shift for a company that has been heavily reliant on gas-powered cars. Mahindra will invest the funds over eight years to build the factory in Pune, western India, according to an exchange filing. It will ...

Bloomberg Farmers in India are being encouraged to sell their crop waste rather than burn it to help accelerate progress on curbing fires that spread a deadly, choking smog across key cities. Smoke from the burning of crop stubble lingers over most of north India for weeks during the cold months of November and December, with air quality deteriorating to ...

Bloomberg Senator Joe Manchin is pressing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to stand firm on North American-based manufacturing requirements for lucrative electric-vehicle tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act, setting up a battle between the West Virginia Democrat and Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. At stake is whether Treasury would hand out the full $7,500 per vehicle in tax credits to more ...

Bloomberg The US is poised to send Patriot air and missile defense batteries to Ukraine pending final approval from President Joe Biden, two US officials said, fulfilling a key demand from Ukrainian leaders. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has urgently sought the system, produced by Raytheon Technologies Corp.and Lockheed Martin Corp, saying Patriots are needed to counter the relentless barrage of Russian ...

  Bloomberg A Hong Kong court overturned the conviction of a prominent local democracy activist for her role in a banned Tiananmen memorial last year, in a rare victory for the city’s beleaguered opposition. Chow Hang Tung was cleared by the High Court of charges of inciting others to take part in an unauthorised assembly in June 2021 to commemorate ...