December, 2022

• 19 December

  UAE issues resolution on compliance with Emiratisation rules

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE) has issued the Ministerial Resolution No. 663 of 2022 regarding compliance with Emiratisation regulations in the private sector. The resolution stipulates controls for compliance with the Emiratisation systems, job advertisements, and employer obligations when hiring a UAE national, and in return, enabling the national to perform his/her work ...

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• 19 December

  WAM, Russian media institutions discuss boosting cooperation

  

  Moscow / WAM A delegation from the Emirates News Agency (WAM), headed by Mohammed Jalal Al Rayssi, Director-General of WAM, discussed with officials from a number of major media institutions in Russia, boosting cooperation in the fields of news exchange, media training programmes, and sharing experiences. The meeting took place on the sidelines of WAM’s participation in the “Russia – ...

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• 19 December

  7th Kairouan Festival of Arabic Poetry kicks off on Dec 23

    Sharjah / WAM Under the patronage of HH Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, Tunisia will host the activities of the Kairouan Festival of Arabic Poetry in its seventh edition, from December 23-25, at the House of Wisdom in Carthage, in the presence of a large number of Tunisian and Arab ...

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• 19 December

  SZBA announces grants for translation of 9 books

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) at the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC), part of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), has announced the translation of nine new books into five languages. As part of the SZBA’s Translation Grant, the Arabic books have been translated into English, French, Italian, ...

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• 19 December

  Woman awarded $40 million in Calif talc suit against Avon

  

    Bloomberg Avon Products Inc was ordered by a California jury to pay $10.3 million in punitive damages to a woman who blamed her cancer on talc in its cosmetics, in the first such case the company has lost in US litigation. The Los Angeles Superior Court jury that punished Avon for hiding the risks that some of its talc-based ...

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• 19 December

  American to drop Mesa Air as partner

  

  Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc said it will wind down its partnership with Mesa Air Group Inc on concern about reliability at the regional airline, which has been struggling to hire pilots during an industry-wide shortage. “Mesa Airlines has experienced various financial and operational difficulties this year,” Derek Kerr, American’s chief financial officer, said in a memo. “We have concerns ...

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• 19 December

  Ruto keen to sell government’s entire stake in Kenya Airways

  

    Bloomberg Kenya’s government is prepared to sell its entire stake in the East African nation’s loss-making airline, newly elected President William Ruto said. “I’m willing to sell the whole” of Kenya Airways Plc, Ruto said in an interview on the sidelines of the US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington. “I’m not in the business of running an airline that just ...

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• 19 December

  Airline revenue is pressured in ‘off-trend’ calendar quirk

  

    Bloomberg Airlines are coping with a calendar quirk that’s prompting more fliers to book flights on either side of December, creating an air pocket in the last month of the year. The US Thanksgiving holiday on November 24 was the earliest its been since 2018, prompting more travellers to take a return trip the same month — unlike in ...

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• 19 December

  Starbucks-Amazon store staff reject union membership

    Bloomberg Baristas at an experimental Starbucks-Amazon Go store in New York narrowly rejected union membership, the latest setback for the US labour movement. The workers, who legally work for Starbucks Corp, requested a union election because they said the tie-up between the coffee chain and Amazon.com Inc doubled their workload with no additional pay. The vote was very close, ...

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• 19 December

  Zambia seeks to sell Gulfstream jet

    Bloomberg Zambia is looking to sell a Gulfstream G650ER jet bought for the presidency for $194.9 million in 2019 as it seeks to cut costs. President Hakainde Hichilema pledged to offload the plane once elected, and hasn’t used it since taking office in August last year, opting rather for commercial flights or an older presidential jet. The previous administration ...

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