Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Land Department (DLD) announces that its smart platform, Dubai REST, is nominated for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) awards 2019, where voting will continue till February 10. The eighth WSIS will be held from April 8-12 in Geneva, where 300 Arab and international delegations, including heads of state and high-level representatives, are ...

Bloomberg The Japanese conglomerate Hitachi Ltd confirmed it will halt work on its nuclear power project in the UK, delivering a blow both to its ambitions to export more of its technology and Britain’s effort to revive its atomic industry. The company will book a loss of about 300 billion yen ($2.8 billion) after suspending indefinitely its plans to build ...

Bloomberg The Trump administration’s decision to keep issuing oil drilling permits during the government shutdown is putting those authorisations in legal jeopardy, environmentalists argued in a filing. The Bureau of Land Management has already violated a federal spending law and legal requirements for public consultation by issuing at least 153 drilling permits since the shutdown began on December 22, WildEarth ...