Dubai / WAM From investment deals to climate goals, cross-border collaboration to multi-national festivals, the first three months of Expo 2020 Dubai have seen a plethora of link-ups between countries, organisations, and artists, showing that exhibition is truly exemplifying its theme, ‘Connecting Minds, Creating the Future’. In early October, Uganda signed business deals worth $650 million while in the ...

  SHARJAH / WAM Dana Gas received a payment of $39 million (AED143 million) from the Egyptian government in December, the company announced on Wednesday. This has reduced its receivables from the North African state below $30 million to its lowest levels since commencing operations there in 2007. It also complements what has already been a year of significant increases ...

  Dubai / WAM POIC Sabah Sdn Bhd has joined the World Logistics Passport (WLP), the world’s first freight programme designed to increase trading opportunities between markets and accelerate the flow of global trade. The joining will enhance Malaysia’s access to global markets and strengthen the programme in the country and across Asia, offering key businesses unmatched opportunities and direct ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Department of Energy (DoE) has issued the ‘2020 Annual Technical Report for Water, Wastewater, and Electricity Sectors in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi’, as part of its role as the regulatory entity tasked with monitoring and enhancing the energy sector’s performance in the emirate. The objective of the report is to enable ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) launched a report titled ‘Creative Dubai: Dubai’s Growing Cultural Industries’, which provides a comprehensive overview of Dubai’s cultural sector and charts a roadmap for its growth by proposing a strategy focused on seven enabling factors. The report outlines Dubai’s potential to become a global cultural hub and a pioneer ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Abu Dhabi has presented an exemplary model for pandemic response, recovery and mitigation. The model saw the emirate topping several lists as it was consistently named among the world’s leading cities in effective pandemic response. The emirate ensured the health and safety of its community by providing treatments ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 448,050 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement, the ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the necessary treatment. ...

  DUBAI / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) organised a virtual awareness day for contractors on health and safety. This is part of Dewa’s commitment to provide a safe and healthy work environment according to the highest international standards, for its employees and employees of its partners. The day featured presentations on the latest health and safety procedures ...

  DUBAI / WAM Emirates Group Security (EGS), one of the leading aviation security practitioners and learning and development providers in the region, has signed an agreement with the University of Arizona (UA), located in Tucson, Arizona, USA, to promote collaboration in tertiary education and research on general and security-specific subjects from certificate to postgraduate courses. This new dimension comes ...

  Amsterdam’s historical significance for global capitalism is hard to overstate. It created the stock market, the tulip bubble and a mega-corporation so big it had its own money, army and colony. Economists later wondered if there was something almost spiritual in the way the Dutch took to money. That fascination ebbed as empires fell and the era of global ...