Dubai / WAM Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), in cooperation with the Consulate General of Japan in Dubai, organises a photo exhibition “Dubai in the Year 1962”. This photo exhibition will be held at Al Safa Art and Design Library until March 17, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the UAE and ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH), the regulator of the healthcare sector in the emirate, launched the Abu Dhabi Life Science Hub in the Metaverse during Arab Health 2023, strengthening the emirate’s positioning as a life science hub The experience aims to recreate the emirate’s life science ecosystem in the metaverse through connecting ...

  Sharjah / WAM The Sharjah Art Foundation will host the 15th edition of the Sharjah Biennial from February 7 to June 11. The event will feature over 150 artists and collectives from 70+ countries and showcase over 300 artworks, including 70 new works. The biennial, curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, will take place across 19 venues in 5 cities ...

  Sharjah / WAM Arada has announced the completion of the first homes in East Village, the third residential phase in its AED24 billion Sharjah megaproject Aljada. In total, 1,621 apartments have been finished across 14 buildings. Featuring 2,000 units in total, East Village is targeted at the younger generation and consists of 16 apartment blocks that are characterised by ...

  Bloomberg The first and final 747 jumbo jet models both started with a handshake deal. Back in the mid-1960s, the leaders of Boeing Co. and PanAm came to an agreement that if the US planemaker pushed ahead with the audacious new design, the airline would in turn go ahead and buy the giant jetliner. That gentleman’s agreement would kick-start ...

Bloomberg The UK will reinstate utilisation rules that mandate airlines use their allocated airport take-off and landing slots or lose them in the next season as travel rebounds from the pandemic. Airlines will be required to use 80% of their airport slots this summer in order to retain them, the Department for Transport said. Carriers will still be able to ...

  Bloomberg Chrono24 GmbH, the biggest dedicated online marketplace for luxury watches, cut about 13% of its workforce after prices for the most sought-after Rolex, Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet timepieces plunged. The company eliminated 65 jobs as it shifted the focus of its operations in the US to Miami from New York, and to Japan from Hong Kong in ...

Bloomberg Nutritious and fast-growing, algae already has a following as an alternative protein among health fanatics. A new generation of sustainable fashion startups want us to wear it too. The fashion industry produces more than 100 billion garments annually, about 14 for every person on Earth. Most end up in landfills or clogging rivers and beaches in developing countries. Only ...

  Bloomberg Indian billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla appointed two of his children as directors on the retail unit of his Aditya Birla Group, setting the stage for succession. The board of Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd., inducted Ananya Birla and Aryaman Vikram Birla, according to a stock exchange filing. The board believes the company will benefit from their new-age ...

  Bloomberg Australian retail sales declined for the first time in 2022 in December, suggesting consumers are beginning to rein in spending in response to rapid inflation and rising interest rates. The currency and bond yields slid as sales tumbled by a larger-than-forecast 3.9%, the biggest fall since August 2020. The result came after November’s gain was revised higher to ...