Bloomberg Few have a better watchtower over oil demand than Joe Gorder, chief executive officer of major US refiner Valero Energy Corp. But this week Gorder didn’t even need his business insight to know that fuel consumption was starting to recover in America. He only needed to look at the streets of San Antonio, the Texas city where he’s based, ...

SHARJAH / WAM Sharjah Directorate of Human Resources (SDHR) issued a study entitled “Effects of coronavirus pandemic on local business sectors and jobs,” to show the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on a number of sectors in the emirate. The SDHR’s study noted that businesses that were able to fully transform to online operations are the “winning” works where jobs ...

ADEN / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) has continued its Ramadan Mir campaign, with a daily average of 3,770 meals distributed across four Yemen governorates. According to the UAE aid authority, the four governorates include Hadramaut, Shabwa, Hodeidah, and Taiz. Some 7,000 iftar meals were distributed across districts in each of the Hadramaut and Hodeidah governorates, while Shabwa saw ...