Abu Dhabi / WAM Abdullah bin Touq Al Marri, Minister of Economy; Dr Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi, Minister of State for Entrepreneurship and SMEs, and Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of State for Foreign Trade, met with Khalid Jasim Al Midfa, Chairman of the Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority (SCTDA) to discuss areas of cooperation to support ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Zayed University (ZU) is all set to implement a hybrid education model through the Fall 2020 semester at its campuses in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The “hybrid” (or “blended”) education model enables teaching and learning to continue both online and partially on campus. The university commenced all classes online on August 24, and is set to ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Integrated Transport Centre (ITC) of the Department of Municipalities and Transport in Abu Dhabi announced that it has completed the first phase of offering free internet service project in public buses in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The first phase included 520 public buses in Abu Dhabi Emirate; 410 buses in Abu Dhabi City and ...

Dubai / WAM Enoc Group won the coveted 2020 Energy Management Insight Award by Clean Energy Ministerial, a global forum of 25 countries and the European Commission designed to promote sustainable policies and programmes to advance clean energy. Enoc Group was recognised for the implementation of ISO 50001, a global standard to better manage retail operations energy use from energy ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM As part of its road safety campaign, the Abu Dhabi Police (ADP) stressed that being preoccupied while driving on the road poses a danger to other road users and could lead to serious traffic accidents. The ADP urged drivers to focus on road and pay attention to pedestrians and road signs in order to avoid accidents, ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Adnoc Distribution has trained 254 UAE national employees to take on leadership roles across its network of service stations. ‘Tomooh’ – meaning ambition in Arabic – is a customised frontline leadership programme developed in collaboration with the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT). Led by the Centre of Excellence for Applied Research and Training (CERT) – the ...

Bloomberg Oil gained towards $43 a barrel as Laura was predicted to become a major hurricane, menacing crude production and refineries in the US Gulf. Futures in New York edged higher, though gains were outpaced by the global Brent benchmark. Tropical Storm Laura is expected to make landfall on Thursday as a Category 3 hurricane with winds as strong as ...

MADRID / WAM The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres released on Tuesday a thematic brief on the impact the pandemic has had on tourism. Drawing on the latest data from the World Tourism Organisation, the lead author of the publication, it warns that as many as 100 million direct tourism jobs are at risk, and massive drop in export revenues from ...

Bloomberg Octopus Energy Ltd, the clean energy provider, plans to add millions of new customers this decade on a pace that could soon make it the UK’s largest energy supplier. Octopus Energy hopes to reach about 5 million households in the UK by 2025, according to Chief Executive Officer Greg Jackson, up from about 1.6 million today. The British energy ...

Bloomberg A Japanese real estate developer is planning to sell a bond whose coupon increases if it misses environmental targets, in the first issuance of its kind in the nation. Hulic Co plans to offer 10 billion yen ($94 million) of 10-year so-called sustainability-linked bonds in October, according to a filing on Tuesday. If the company isn’t able to meet ...