SHARJAH / WAM HH Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, has issued Emiri Decree regarding the appointment of a Deputy Ruler of the Emirate of Sharjah. Emiri decree No. 25 of 2021 stipulates that Sheikh Sultan bin Ahmed bin Sultan Al Qasimi will be appointed as the Deputy Ruler of the Emirate ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Department of Community Development in Abu Dhabi (DCD) and Statistics Centre — Abu Dhabi (SCAD) signed a cooperation agreement that will allow the two entities to accurately measure the quality of life for workers in Abu Dhabi. The aim is to activate their role within a set of future programmes and initiatives that will help ...

SHARJAH / WAM Sharjah Airport Authority (SAA) continues to enhance travellers’ experience by implementing a wide range of self check-in services, allowing passengers and customers to clear their transactions and complete the on-the-ground process quickly, while reducing waiting time during peak hours. With the new initiatives, the SAA aims to increase their customers’ satisfaction and improve their experience at Sharjah’s ...

DUBAI / WAM Expo 2020 Dubai has revealed the calendar for its ‘Programme for People and Planet,’ a schedule of events, experiences, thought-leadership and public conversations that aims to find solutions for some of the most pressing problems facing our world. Designed with and for the global community, the programme will harness the connecting power of World Expos to catalyse ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has advised international pharmaceutical companies to apply for marketing approval for their products in the UAE before being approved in the manufacturing country, according to a senior official. This allows pre-study of the file to issue the marketing approval in the UAE for innovative products and rare medicines once ...

Boris Johnson is lucky in his enemies. They want to win rhetorical battles while he wants to win the next election. Every week at prime minister’s questions in the House of Commons, the leader of the opposition nails him for his economical ways with the truth and demonstrates that Johnson has performed another screeching U-turn. Invective rains down from commentators ...

Mike Ashley is best known for selling cheap tracksuits in the UK Now, he is thinking more like a bling king. The billionaire behind Sports Direct, who bought out the fancy but failing department store chain House of Fraser in 2018, is elevating a scion to a senior role, just as it’s been done at LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton ...

There is an incontrovertible and sobering fact about the drive to net zero. Any effort that doesn’t work for the whole world will fail everywhere. A path that favours developed markets at the expense of others will lead to a partial net zero, which is no net zero at all. Unfortunately, too many countries, companies and investors see achieving this ...

Imagine a future in which foreign dissidents traveling to Washington are sued by their governments in US courts for defamation. A federal court may be on the verge of making this nightmare a reality. Last month a group of US government commissions and human-rights organisations, including the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and Freedom House, filed amicus briefs urging the ...

Bloomberg UK airlines are warning that thousands of jobs could be lost if the government fails to reverse course and offer the industry an extension of the furlough program with travel in a slump for a second summer season. Carriers have asked the government for a short-term, sector-specific jobs support plan to tide it through the usually lean winter months, ...