DUBAI / WAM Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, Hessa Bint Essa Buhumaid, Minister of Community Development, officially inaugurated on Monday the 17th edition of the Dubai International Humanitarian Aid and Development Conference and Exhibition (Dihad) at the Dubai International Convention and ...

DUBAI / WAM The Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) on Monday announced that private schools in Dubai will not be increasing tuition fees for the 2021-22 academic year. This is the second consecutive year that fees for Dubai schools have remained steady. The announcement follows the release of the annual Education Cost Index (ECI) calculated by the Dubai Statistics ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Waste Management Centre (Tadweer) recycled 1,915,724 tons of Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste in Abu Dhabi in 2020, accounting for 80 percent of the total C&D waste handled by its facilities. This is equivalent to 255 domes of the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi. Over the past year, Tadweer collected 2,400,000 tons of C&D ...

DUBAI / WAM Emirates and TAP Air Portugal signed a memorandum of understanding to expand the codeshare partnership currently in place between both airlines. The new agreement will see customers of both airlines benefit from seamless connectivity on many new routes across the Americas, North Africa and East Asia. Emirates and TAP Air Portugal will also explore ways to enhance ...

Bloomberg Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., which supplies almost all of South Africa’s power, said it’s undertaking long-overdue repairs at its facilities amid a high risk of nationwide outages, and it expects supply to improve later this year. The debt-stricken state utility has implemented electricity rationing — known locally as load-shedding — on 19 days so far this year after record ...

The stock market plunged, the dollar spiked and digital frenzy swept Brazil. Another record-breaking day for Covid-19 fatalities, or one more assault on civility by the nation’s provocateur-in-chief, President Jair Bolsonaro? None of the above. What has Brazilians in a lather is a new variant of a more familiar affliction — Lulapalooza. Until this week, the much admired and widely ...

Covid-19’s path of destruction has not exempted the pieties about it. People who said it was “just the flu” don’t look wise after nearly 540,000 deaths in the US. But “14 days to flatten the curve” didn’t turn out to be prescient either. The more partisan the narrative, the worse it has fared. Liberals have spent much of the pandemic ...

In the futurist law now named after him, the late Stanford University computer scientist Roy Amara once declared, “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” India’s public digital infrastructure — in many ways, an immense online bureaucracy — is an outlier to this principle. The effort ...

Sure, life is inching its way back to normal, but not for taxpayers. That’s why the Internal Revenue Service should extend the filing deadline this year, just as it did in 2020. One of the main reasons to again give filers extra time after April 15 is the Covid-19 relief bill. The legislation calls for making some of the unemployment ...

Bloomberg Tencent Holdings Ltd. shares fell a second day on concern regulators are now turning their sights to Pony Ma’s business empire, fueling a $62 billion wipe-out that one brokerage says obliterated most of the value of its online finance business. The stock fall more than 4% in Hong Kong on Monday. China’s top financial regulators see Tencent as the ...