DUBAI / WAM All preparations are complete for the 8th World Green Economy Summit (WGES), which is set to take place on September 28-29 at the Dubai World Trade Centre. Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Vice Chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, MD and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa), and Chairman of World Green Economy ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) has announced that it attained membership in the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM). Through its membership, TDRA will support the implementation of EFQM’s leading approach, aimed at enabling organisations improve their own performance and objectives as well as develop their respective human resources. TDRA will utilise ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH) and the Institute for Health Improvement (IHI), a global not-for-profit organisation based in Boston, USA, launched a strategic cooperative agreement to advance and execute programmes for continuous improvement of the quality of healthcare. The cooperation seeks to set a solid framework and establish regulatory foundations to achieve ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE is set to host the Annual Meeting of the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) 2022 at the Adnoc Business Centre in Abu Dhabi from 19th to 23rd September, 2022. Organised by the Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT), the event will take place in the presence of Ulrika Francke, President of the ISO, ...

My first visit to Kyiv since the Russian invasion in February coincided with a major Ukrainian military success in the east of the country, where Kupyansk and Izyum were liberated and Russian troops routed. However, the government of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is too smart to celebrate one successful battle when there is a war to be won against a still-formidable ...

Japan looks like it may finally open its borders and end its splendid isolation. The key question is: Can it learn to love foreign tourists again? After a series of head fake border re-openings this year which promised more than they delivered, a report that Japan would scrap most restrictions on tourists was the big one. If realised, the plans ...

  New electric models from Rivian Automotive Inc and Lucid Group Inc have won rave reviews, but you’ll have to be patient to drive one. Since commencing production one year ago, the two companies have produced only around 10,000 vehicles altogether as of June 30. Compare that with Volkswagen AG, which manufactures twice that every day. As the startups are ...

  Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, allied nations have unleashed a suite of sanctions so rapid and broad in its reach that there are no true precedents. Even, say, curbs on Venezuela — oil producer cut off from global finance — are by necessity imperfect. But there’s another commodity exporter whose experience offers less obvious lessons for sanctioning nations and ...

  Bloomberg British supermarket chains Asda Group Ltd and Iceland Foods Ltd have seen their bonds move out of the distressed zone after British Prime Minister Liz Truss’s promised help on energy bills. With Britons expected to have more money in their pockets to spend on essential groceries, the sweeping package of measures to contain spiraling energy bills announced last ...

  Bloomberg Aldi has become Britain’s fourth largest supermarket for the first time, overtaking Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc to gain 9.3% of the country’s grocery market. The German discounter’s market share climbed 1.2 percentage points in the 12 weeks to September 4, retail data company Kantar said. Brits have been turning to cheaper outlets and own-brand labels amid the country’s ...