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flydubai, Alhosn join hands to make travel more convenient

Dubai / WAM flydubai, the Dubai-based airline, has partnered with Alhosn, becoming the first airline to collaborate with the official UAE app for contact tracing and health testing related to Covid-19, to provide passengers with digital verification of Covid-19 medical records while travelling from the UAE. All flydubai passengers can now use the Alhosn app at check-in without having to ...

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Elon Musk-Jeff Bezos spat reflects bad space policy

Last week, the Senate passed a measure that would allot $10 billion over five years for Nasa to develop two new lunar landers. Buried in a nearly $250 billion bill intended to boost innovation, the measure was equal to about 43% of the space agency’s total budget. Why the extravagance? On one level, it surely makes sense to build a ...

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Was Alibaba a Trojan horse for HK?

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd didn’t hide its frustration when turning away from Hong Kong in 2013 and choosing to list in the US instead. “The question Hong Kong must address is whether it is ready to look forward as the rest of the world passes it by,” co-founder Joe Tsai wrote in a blog post that chastised the city’s exchange ...

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