ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, on Wednesday received a phone call from Dr Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President of Germany. During the call, Sheikh Mohamed and German President discussed strategic relations between the two friendly countries and ways of developing ...

  FUJAIRAH / WAM HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, Crown Prince of Fujairah and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Fujairah Foundation for Region Development (FFRD), chaired the first meeting of the foundation in 2022, attended by Saeed Mohammed Al Raqbani, Vice Chairman of FFRD, Khamis Al Noun, Director-General of the FFRD, and other ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (Taqa), Dubal Holding and Emirates Water and Electricity Company (Ewec) on Wednesday announced a major initiative that would unlock significant further development of solar power generation capacity in Abu Dhabi, progress power asset and generation optimisation, and decarbonise EGA’s aluminium production in the United Arab ...

  SHARJAH / WAM The Youth Council of Sharjah Economic Development Department (SEDD) organised a virtual discussion session in cooperation with Federal Youth Authority and Sharjah Foundation for Supporting Entrepreneurship (RUWAD). The session was aimed at highlighting UAE’s role in developing the industrial, specifying basic needs to run industrial projects, discussing challenges facing the entrepreneur sector, and discussing solutions to ...

  DUBAI / WAM Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower) has announced a dividend of AED500 million to its shareholders for the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2021. The dividend payout represents 53.4 percent of the AED936 million, the total net profit achieved by Empower for the last fiscal year that increased by 4 percent compared to 2020. The ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM In a bid to elevate community awareness about the importance of shared social responsibility and help advance social priorities that benefit the people of Abu Dhabi and the UAE at large, the Authority of Social Contribution – Ma’an is set to host the 2nd edition of the ‘Exchange’, a space designed to educate and empower ...

  DUBAI / WAM Reem bint Ibrahim Al Hashemy, Minister of State for International Cooperation and Director-General at Expo 2020 Dubai, has announced that the mega event has received an event-specific Gender Equality European and International Standard (GEEIS), a significant recognition of the World Expo’s ongoing commitment to workplace gender equality. In her speech during the “Break the Bias” forum ...

  Bloomberg Natural gas in Europe declined as traders weighed the region’s reluctance to sanction Russian supplies and the potential easing of retaliatory action by Moscow. Benchmark Dutch futures fell as much as 21%, after swinging wildly between gains and losses. While the European Commission has said it plans to reduce Russian gas imports by two-thirds this year, finding alternatives ...

China is the wild card. President Xi Jinping has vowed that the friendship between China and Russia has “no limits,” and he certainly has the tools to help soften the blow of unprecedented sanctions imposed by the US and European Union on Vladimir Putin’s wartime economy. Beijing could buy some of Russia’s $130 billion hoard of gold held by the ...

Investors in Bed Bath & Beyond Inc are betting that an activist intervention will add up to big gains. Shares in the retailer rose as much as 86%, the most ever, in early trading after Ryan Cohen, a co-founder of Chewy Inc and the chairman of GameStop Corp, disclosed that he had taken a 9.8% stake. Cohen’s investment company RC ...