DUBAI / WAM DMCC – a Free Zone and Government of Dubai Authority on commodities trade and enterprise – has registered a record breaking 2,025 new companies in 2020, the highest number of registrations in five years. Despite an overall business environment shaped by the pandemic, the record-breaking registrations are a testament to Dubai’s continued appeal to investors and the ...

Like many things in India nowadays, the science of vaccine approval has also run into the politics of chest-thumping nationalism. Alongside authorising Covishield, the Covid-19 protection developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca Plc and manufactured by the Serum Institute of India Ltd, the country’s drugs regulator gave a go-ahead to an indigenous vaccine for which critical phase three trial data ...

Twitter doesn’t have an edit button. Despite a chorus of protest over many years, the company has declined to bow to user demand — indeed, as Covid-19 raged, Twitter trolled its 330 million users with this taunt. This absence of edit mirrors a range of controversial Twitter innovations — including switching the “validation” button from a star to a heart; ...