April, 2023

• 11 April

  NBF inks deal to finance its rooftop solar projects in UAE

  

  DUBAI / WAM The National Bank of Fujairah (NBF) announced that it has provided a long-term credit facility to CleanMax for refinancing its rooftop solar portfolio in the UAE. The facility will cover 48 different operational rooftop solar assets, located in industrial facilities, malls, schools, and universities. This new partnership between NBF and CleanMax therefore represents a significant step towards ...

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• 11 April

  CodersHQ held ‘Metaversing your education’ workshop

  

  DUBAI/ WAM CodersHQ, an initiative of the National Programme for Coders, organised an interactive workshop titled “Metaversing Your Education” that focussed on the application of metaverse technology in higher education and was aimed at students from universities across the UAE. The workshop witnessed participation from various speakers, including; Thaer Faraj CEO of Beyond Universe — a Microsoft partner in the ...

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• 11 April

  Abu Dhabi’s QCC publishes its annual report for 2022

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Quality and Conformity Council (QCC) has made major strides in developing the quality infrastructure of Abu Dhabi, enhancing the emirate’s regional and international competitiveness in various key sectors, according to its annual report for 2022. QCC reported that achievements last year spanned preparing and implementing conformity programmes, reviewing and approving technical documents for partners, ...

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• 11 April

  UAE unveils initiative to boost sustainable development

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) has introduced the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) planning programme in line with UAE’s Year of Sustainability. The SEA programme will aid in evaluating environmental impacts and guiding the investigation of alternatives and potential mitigation and monitoring efforts associated with strategic projects, plans, and development programmes. The programme will promote ...

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• 11 April

  Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival comprises 152 races

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM Lara Sawaya, Executive Director of the HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival, affirmed that the 15th edition of the festival will comprise a total of 152 races. The new edition of the festival is taking place in implementation of the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al ...

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• 10 April

  Car price cuts in China intensify amid heated price war

  

  BLOOMBERG Anyone shopping for a new car in China is in the right place at the right time. The world’s largest auto market is in the midst of a heated price war, and the situation is only intensifying. In the first quarter, a total of 649 variants of passenger cars, or around 20% of all vehicles on the market, saw ...

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• 10 April

  India to get below-average monsoon in risk to economy

  

  BLOOMBERG India will likely see below-normal monsoon rain this year, according to a private forecaster, a prospect that could hurt its vast agriculture sector and stoke inflation in Asia’s third-biggest economy. The coming season may bring only 94% of the rain India usually gets from June to September, Skymet Weather Services Pvt said. A lack of rain spells trouble for ...

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• 10 April

  TSMC’s sales miss for second straight quarter

  

  BLOOMBERG Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) missed sales estimates for the second consecutive quarter in a sign of continued weakness in global electronics demand. First-quarter revenue at the world’s biggest contract manufacturer of chips was NT$508.6 billion ($16.7 billion), according to Bloomberg calculations, falling shy of average analyst forecasts of NT$525.5 billion. A sharp slowdown in March contributed to that ...

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• 10 April

  China’s SenseTime unfurls latest challenger to ChatGPT

  

  BLOOMBERG SenseTime Group Inc showed off a suite of new artificial-intelligence (AI) services developed with the company’s access to vast troves of data and deep computing power, including the latest Chinese challenger to AI phenom ChatGPT. Chief Executive Officer Xu Li took the stage to demonstrate the large AI model SenseNova and a user-facing chatbot called SenseChat. Xu, with help ...

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• 10 April

  ‘Europe must develop its own autonomy’

  

  BLOOMBERG Emmanuel Macron urged Europe to develop more strategic autonomy as a way to avoid the risk of turning the European Union (EU) countries into “vassals” in the event of a global crisis such as a US-China confrontation. “Strategic autonomy must be the battle of Europe,” the French president told the business daily Les Echos during his visit to China. ...

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