Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has announced the launch of an Automatic Smart Grid Restoration System (ASGR), the first of its kind in the Mena region, to increase the control, management, and monitoring of its power network. The system works around the clock without any human intervention. It uses a smart, innovative, and central system ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) on Monday announced that it has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with the Emirati Talent Competitiveness Council (Nafis), to accelerate the recruitment of talent in the private sector and create 3,000 additional jobs for UAE nationals in its supply chain by 2025. Through this agreement, Adnoc will step up ...

  Abu Dhabi / Gulf Time AD Ports group, the leading facilitator of global trade, logistics, and industry in Abu Dhabi, announced on Monday that it will host the 2022 edition of the World Union of Wholesale Markets Conference (WUWM), a major event for the fresh food industry that will bring together high level – public and private sector – ...

Sarajevo / WAM Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi, President of the International Publishers Association (IPA), has travelled to Sarajevo to meet with stakeholders from the publishing community of Bosnia and Herzegovina as they continue their recovery and response to the challenges presented by the global pandemic, and by increasing global instability. Underscoring the IPA’s mission to support and promote publishing for ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has announced the launch of an Automatic Smart Grid Restoration System (ASGR), the first of its kind in the Mena region, to increase the control, management, and monitoring of its power network. The system works around the clock without any human intervention. It uses a smart, innovative, and central system ...

  Dubai / WAM The Dubai Health Authority (DHA), which regulates the health insurance sector in Dubai, has launched “Ejadah” programme, the first-of-its-kind value-based healthcare model for the emirate. The value-based healthcare model will pay for performance and outcomes that matter to patients, and will assist healthcare service providers with evidence-based guidelines which will be a framework for all physicians ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM “Emirates Wheat”, which was launched in 2017, is one of the leading initiatives in the agriculture sector and involves 170 farms, representing most of the national efforts to achieve food security by producing over 80 tonnes of wheat. The national initiative, headed by farmer Humaid Obaid Al Zaabi, aims to boost the country’s wheat production, ...

  Bloomberg European natural gas prices rise as Russia’s deep supply cuts are slowing the pace of refilling storage sites, threatening to fall short of levels required to keep homes warm in the coming winter. Benchmark futures started the week with a gain of as much as 6.9%. Buyers have found it more difficult to replace Russian gas from elsewhere ...

Bloomberg The cost of charging the UK’s most popular electric car, the Tesla Model 3, has jumped 37% since December along with rising electricity prices. And further hikes look likely in the months ahead. UK petrol prices surged to record levels last week, making it more than $123 to fill a standard car. But even electric vehicle drivers are feeling ...

As the leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) nations prepare to meet this week in Madrid, I’m reminded of a call I received shortly after I became supreme allied commander at the alliance in 2009. It was from Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and with the directness for which he was famous, he said: “Jim, I want you ...