Sharjah / Emirates Business As early as January 2019, an unprecedented 70.8 million people had been forcibly displaced worldwide. Against the backdrop of these overwhelming numbers, the Sharjah-based global humanitarian organisation, The Big Heart Foundation (TBHF), continued to intensify its philanthropic efforts in 2019 in the vital sectors of emergency relief, healthcare, education and livelihood with the strategic inclusion of ...

DUBAI / WAM Enoc Group has urged customers to make use of the safety offered by ENOCPay, its cashless and cardless payment platform accepted across all its retail service stations in the UAE, in line with the UAE government’s efforts to maintain social distancing following the Covid-19 pandemic, With ENOCPay, customers can refuel with zero contact with machines or fuel ...

Dubai / WAM Adnoc Distribution announced that its dividend policy will see the 2020 dividend increase to AED2.57 billion, an increase of 7.5 percent compared to 2019. The announcement was made on Tuesday during the company’s General Assembly meeting which was held remotely via video conference as part of the Adnoc Distribution’s measures to ensure the safety and well-being of ...

AJMAN / WAM HH Sheikh Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ajman, issued Emiri Decree No. 7 for 2020, to adopt the government’s package to support Ajman’s local community and business sector. The decree aims to reduce the economic and financial burdens on the local community and business sector and overcome the social and economic ...

DUBAI / WAM The Ministry of Community Development (MoCD) has launched four interactive channels under a new initiative named ‘Taaluf’ to provide family counselling for free to all UAE community members. In a statement, the Ministry said that the launch of the counselling initiative aims to mitigate the psychosocial and mental health impacts of Covid-19 on individuals during home quarantines ...

Bloomberg China’s leaders normally spend a lot of time and money on keeping the country’s 1.4 billion people in line — and that was before a global pandemic ravaging the world economy threatened to put millions out of work. A rare street clash over the weekend on the border of virus-stricken Hubei province shows the challenges president Xi Jinping faces ...

Bloomberg The Kremlin’s sudden shift of ownership of multi-billion-dollar oil projects in Venezuela shields oil giant Rosneft PJSC from further US sanctions but keeps Moscow firmly behind embattled President Nicolas Maduro amid a wider stand-off with Washington. “Russia is not walking away from Maduro and will seek to thwart US efforts to depose him,” said Vladimir Frolov, a former diplomat ...

Bloomberg The UK government is facing renewed calls to speed up testing of patients and healthcare workers for the coronavirus, as the outbreak spreads. Ministers and officials were challenged to explain why they said 10,000 tests were being carried out every day but only 7,000 people had received them. The concerns over testing rates came after a week of lockdown ...

Bloomberg Prime minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc orders a 15-day period of isolation nationwide beginning from Wednesday, according to a statement on the government’s website. Residents must stay at home and can only go outside for “essential needs,” such as food, medicines, urgent medical services or to go to work at companies permitted by the government to remain open, it said. ...

Bloomberg Hungary’s parliament handed prime minister Viktor Orban the right to rule by decree indefinitely, effectively putting the European Union democracy under his sole command for as long as he sees fit. While governments around the world assume emergency powers to fight the coronavirus, locking down all aspects of every-day life and shutting borders, few democracies have given their governments ...