Dubai / Emirates Business Expo 2020 Dubai participated in this year’s edition of Think Science, a nation-wide initiative under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The three-day event took place at the Dubai World Trade Centre during April 17-19, and engaged hundreds of UAE youth to develop, design and build science-based innovations that respond ...

  Dhaka / AFP As they jostle for space on the floor, with the door to their fire escape padlocked, the seamstresses cannot help but recall the carnage when another of Bangladesh’s garment factories collapsed three years ago. “We always worry what will happen if a blaze breaks out or the building caves in,” one woman worker said on condition ...

  Tokyo / AFP Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors plans to compensate customers in a bid to limit the fallout from a fuel-efficiency cheating scandal, the Nikkei reported on Saturday. Authorities raided the company’s office on Thursday after the company admitted it had falsified efficiency data for hundreds of thousands of vehicles. Mitsubishi Motors shares plunged more than 40 percent in ...