Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has approved the Dubai Countryside and Rural Areas Development Master Plan, spanning an area of 2,216 square kilometres. The plan seeks to preserve the nature of areas including Lehbab, Margham, Al Marmoom, Al Lisaili, Al Faqaa ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) is making significant progress in its commitment to declare Abu Dhabi free of single-use plastic products, achieving the objectives of the Single-Use Plastic Policy in the emirate. The agency reports a significant reduction in the consumption of single-use plastic bags, with people switching to alternative, more sustainable reusable ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) held a coordination meeting with the Department of Culture and Tourism (DCT) to discuss ways to support and develop the strategic partnership in common areas, as directed by HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Presidential Court and Chairman of the Judicial Department of ...

  Sharjah / WAM The Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) discussed with the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry the cooperation chances for business communities in Sharjah and Moscow, and how to benefit from the strong ties between the UAE and the Russian Federation to discover rewarding opportunities in industries that characterise the economies of both sides, especially ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has completed improvements of Al Manama Street, which is part of the Dubai-Al Ain Road Improvement Project opened in May 2022. The project stems from RTA’s efforts to upgrade roads and transportation infrastructure, besides supporting Dubai’s urban and sustainable development. The project entailed the construction of a new traffic corridor ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has commissioned a new 132/11kV substations in Al Awir First with a transmission capacity of 150 MVA, at a total cost of AED180 million. Dewa also inaugurated a new transmission 400/132kV substation in Jebel Ali First and overhead cables with a conversion transmission of 2,000 MVA, at total cost of ...

Bloomberg Shuttering Berlin airport for more than two hours and upsetting the travel plans of thousands of passengers proved little more challenging than a walk in the park for four climate protesters. Video footage of the runway invasion shows two of them calmly pushing a bicycle along a country path before slipping through a hole in the perimeter fence as ...

  Bloomberg Hong Kong expects air passenger traffic to recover to as much as 70% of pre-pandemic levels by the end of next year and return to normality by 2024, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported, citing an official. Deputy Director of Airport Operations Steven Yiu Siu-chung brushed aside concern about the airport’s status as an aviation hub, the newspaper ...

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc is poised to settle European antitrust probes over how the US ecommerce giant uses rivals’ sales data and whether it unfairly favours its own products. The European Commission is likely to accept Amazon’s binding proposals by the end of the year — that includes a commitment to stop using data on independent sellers on its marketplace for ...

Bloomberg US retailers discounted heavily on Black Friday to clear out bloated inventories but customers responded with only modest traffic, leaving profitability in doubt for many chains. Crowds were thin at Connecticut’s Stamford Town Center mall, with few shoppers at Kay Jewelers and just a small line at Forever 21. A couple at a Walmart Inc supercenter near Dallas reveled ...