Sharjah / WAM Sharjah Museums Authority (SMA) is gearing up to launch its Happy Holiday Summer Camp 2022, offering a wide range of educational and fun-filled activities in Arabic and English languages for children aged between 6-12 across its museums in Sharjah. The first phase of the summer camp will kick off on July 18 at Sharjah Aquarium, Sharjah ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in his capacity as the ruler of Abu Dhabi, has ordered the disbursement of AED1.5 billion worth of housing benefits to Abu Dhabi citizens, covering more than 1,100 beneficiaries in the emirate. The benefits package includes grants for houses, housing loans, and the exemption of retirees ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) organises the Water, Energy, Technology, and Environment Exhibition (Wetex) and Dubai Solar Show from September 27-29. Since its launch in 1999, Wetex has witnessed significant growth and has become one of the most prominent global exhibitions specialised in water, energy, sustainability, green technologies, renewable and clean energy, green buildings, electric ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry has organised an awareness session on increasing Emiratisation rates in the private sector in cooperation with the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation, the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development – (Added), and the Emirati Talent Competitiveness Council. Held at the chamber’s tower in Abu Dhabi, the ...

  Bloomberg Russia’s Gazprom PJSC will further cut gas supplies to Italy by about one third, the country’s energy giant Eni SpA said in a statement on Monday. Gazprom announced that it will supply Eni with approximately 21 million cubic meters of natural gas per day, compared to an average of about 32 million cubic meters per day over the ...

  Bloomberg Japan may ask households and businesses to cut back on natural gas use on the back of concerns that increase in global competition for the precious fuel will disrupt stable supply. A panel within Japan’s trade ministry called for discussion to create a framework that would allow the government to ask households and businesses to conserve gas when ...

In the specter of Shinzo Abe’s shocking assassination, the party to which he dedicated his life secured a resounding victory in the upper house election. Now Fumio Kishida, Abe’s sometimes rival, long-serving foreign minister and now successor, must use his mandate to secure what Abe never could: the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) long-held goal of constitutional reform. The 75-year-old ...

So far this year, US carriers have cancelled almost 3% of flights and delayed more than a fifth by an average of 48 minutes, according to data compiled by FlightAware. That compares with just more than 2% of flights cancelled by US carriers during the same stretch of 2019 and about 17% delayed — a reminder that flying wasn’t exactly ...

  Malaysia should be booming as manufacturers exit China. But it isn’t, and its own short-sighted labour policies are to blame. For decades, Malaysia served as an export manufacturing hub, boosted by location and access to low-cost migrant labour. Those migrants haven’t returned as the Covid-19 pandemic eased. According to a recent analysis by Reuters, as of June the country ...

  European natural gas prices are still well below the all-time high set in March. Dig a bit deeper, however, and they are signalling a more protracted disruption than markets anticipated in the immediate aftermath of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. While the gas market then priced in a short-lived crisis, lasting perhaps a couple of months, it’s now flashing ...