Abu Dhabi / WAM The Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS) a joint initiative by the UAE and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (Unido), announced the dates for its 2020 edition, #GMIS2020, commencing with a sequence of Digital Series on June 30, and leading up to the Virtual Summit that will be held on September 4-5. At the top ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Customs’ Training Centre and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have launched an e-learning platform ‘GO LEARN’, that provides some 50 training courses in the customs field. The launch of the online platform took place on Microsoft Teams with the attendance of Mohammed Al Ghaffari, Acting Executive Director, Human Resources, Finance and Administration ...

Bloomberg Electricite de France (EDF) and its Canadian and German partners have finalised the funding of a 2 billion euro ($2.23 billion) offshore wind project, allowing construction to start in the English Channel. EDF, Enbridge Inc and Wpd AG plan to commission the 500-megawatt wind farm in 2023, the companies said in a statement on Tuesday. The facility near the ...

Bloomberg China boosted its clean energy targets for 2020 and said it would for the first time formally monitor whether provinces meet their goals or not. Nationwide, the country is targeting 28.2% of electricity generation to come from renewable sources, up 0.3 percentage points from last year, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said. Non-hydro sources are expected to ...

President Donald Trump tweeted that the executive branch will designate Antifa as a “terrorist organisation,” apparently in an attempt to pin blame for the weekend’s violent protests on the loose collection of far-left activists. The president’s announcement was characteristically unclear. Federal law says that if the Secretary of State designates a group as a foreign terrorist organisation, then materially supporting ...

Just as coronavirus infections weaken, European countries lift foreign travel restrictions and people gear up for the possibility that we might actually get on an airplane again, one of the world’s largest tourism markets is effectively shutting down. Under rules to be finalised on Tuesday, anyone arriving in the UK from June 8, including returning Britons, will have to quarantine ...

Doctors, medical administrators and consumers are falling for misleading marketing of Covid-19 antibody tests. And the FDA has exerted almost no oversight over a hodgepodge of different tests that have come on the market since April, promoted with a blitz of direct emails to clinics and hospitals that tout the tests’ ability to detect past infections of Sars-CoV2. The FDA ...

If you’re haggling over the price of goods at a market, there often comes a point when the buyer threatens to walk away. It’s up to the seller to decide whether or not that’s a bluff. That’s the right way to consider the news that Chinese state-owned agricultural companies have been ordered to pause purchases of US farm goods, including ...

Bloomberg The UK is considering a plan to allow unhindered flights from countries with a low risk of spreading coronavirus as pressure mounts on ministers to scrap controversial quarantine plans. Arrivals in Britain will have to self-isolate for 14 days under rules to be introduced on June 8, which travel executives warn could devastate their industry. The restrictions are due ...

Bloomberg Thailand’s cabinet on Tuesday approved a bid by a consortium led by BTS Group Holdings Pcl for an airport development project worth 290 billion baht ($9 billion). The project will add a third passenger terminal at the U-Tapao International Airport near Pattaya, which in normal times is a tourist hot-spot, and develop other facilities like air cargo and aviation ...