DUBAI / WAM The organisers of the World Green Economy Summit (WGES) invite those interested in attending to register on the summit website so they can participate in the activities, high-level seminars, panel discussions and youth circles held during the 8th WGES. Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) and the World Green Economy Organisation (WGEO) are organising WGES under ...

The reduction in Hong Kong’s mandatory hotel quarantine period to three days from seven will come as a welcome relief to many in a pandemic-weary population. Whether it will do much to revive the financial centre’s international competitiveness is far more doubtful. In a world where most of its rivals abandoned Covid curbs months ago, the city still looks like ...

I am writing this from Amritsar, India, in the state of Punjab. The Sikh Golden Temple here is one of India’s leading attractions, and recently I shared space with thousands of people over the course of four or five hours. In that time, I saw only two people who might qualify as White Westerners. That simple observation — and my ...