HODEIDAH / WAM Dr Al Hassan Ali Taher, Hodeidah Governor, praised the UAE’s development and infrastructure services being carried out in Yemen’s Red Sea Coast region, noting their economic and social impacts on Yemenis and confirming the humanitarian commitment of the UAE towards the Yemeni people. Taher said the Yemeni people appreciate the UAE’s humanitarian and development role in Yemen, ...

NEW YORK / DUBAI / WAM The United Nations World Data Forum 2018 is set to kick off on October 22 in Dubai, bringing together nearly 2,000 data leaders from more than 100 countries. The data experts from national statistical offices, the private sector, NGOs, academia and international and regional organisations will gather from October 22-24 to collaborate and tackle ...

Bloomberg Almost 84 percent of Southeast Asia’s planned and existing fossil fuel power plants are incompatible with future scenarios that avoid catastrophic damage from climate change, according a new study from the University of Oxford. The report, which comes on the heels of a major United Nations-backed study of the impacts of global temperatures rising 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit), ...