Sharjah / WAM Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone’s (SPC Free Zone) mission of creating a nurturing and supportive environment for businesses has seen it attract more than 1,000 companies since the first half of the year 2021. These include the publishing, printing and translation sectors, commercial, administrative and legal consultants and companies operating in creative sectors. This has been accomplished ...

Most of the talk this year about the labour market recovery has focussed on the hardest-hit industry, leisure and hospitality, and the struggles that restaurant and hotel owners have had trying to staff up. Under the radar, it’s a different industry — manufacturing — that’s having even more difficulty finding the workers it needs. And that’s what last week’s job ...

Back in February, biotech firm Valneva SE’s proposed Covid-19 vaccine was touted by Boris Johnson’s government as a key plank of its ambitious, whatever-it-takes race to immunise the Brits. The UK had poured millions of pounds into Valneva’s Scottish factory, secured an extra 40 million vaccine doses on top of the 60 million it had already agreed to buy, and ...