September, 2022

• 23 September

  UAE ministry, Jordan entity strengthen collaboration

  

    ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Jordan Standards and Metrology Organisation (JSMO) to strengthen ties around standards, regulations, conformity assessment, specifications, and national hallmarks. The MoU aims to facilitate industrial, trade and economic growth in both the UAE and Jordan. It covers the exchange of ...

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• 23 September

  National strategy for nursing, midwifery discussed

  

    DUBAI / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has organised a special workshop in Dubai to discuss the National Strategy for Nursing and Midwifery 2022-2026 and its roadmap. The five-day workshop, which was hosted by MoHAP’s National Committee for Nursing and Midwifery Affairs, aimed to develop implementation, follow-up, and evaluation methods to ensure the optimal execution of ...

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• 23 September

  DP World’s recruitment programmes attract over 50 Emiratis

  

    DUBAI / WAM DP World’s success in transforming from a local port operator to global logistics solutions provider, began with its inception four decades ago. It is the story of visionary leadership and talented young Emiratis who worked hard to make DP World a multinational company, while maintaining its Emirati soul. Their confidence and enthusiasm helped them achieve their ...

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• 23 September

  Putin’s new cannon fodder won’t win war in Ukraine

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin tripled down on the war in Ukraine in a short but defiant televised speech. Politically, he announced that a series of referendums on joining Russia would be held in the conquered territories of eastern Ukraine. Militarily, he repeated previous not-so-veiled threats to use nuclear weapons, and announced a mobilisation of 300,000 reservists to be thrown into ...

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• 23 September

  Skipping New York is bad for Jakarta

  

  When Indonesia’s Joko Widodo visited Ukraine and Russia this summer, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi explained the president was “choosing to try to contribute, instead of choosing to be quiet.” And yet now, with the world at a perilous juncture, he has bafflingly chosen silence. Jokowi, as the president is known, is once again sitting out the United Nations’ General Assembly, ...

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• 23 September

  Dollar surge leads to big terms of trade shock

    The US dollar has surged almost 14% from its low last year in trade-weighted terms. This has led to a huge terms of trade shock (the price of exports compared with the price of imports) affecting any country that imports a lot of energy, which trades in dollars. On top of that, in Europe and the UK, at least, ...

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• 23 September

  Fed splits the difference on labour market pain

    The Federal Reserve is inching towards acknowledging how painful its inflation fight is likely to be, but it’s still a lot closer to the optimists than the pessimists. On a day when it raised interest rates by 0.75 percentage point to a range of 3% to 3.25%, the Fed also released economic projections showing that its median forecast for ...

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• 23 September

  United staff at Heathrow to vote on strike over pay

  

  Bloomberg United Airlines Holdings Inc faces potential disruption in one of its most lucrative overseas markets as 300 workers at London’s Heathrow airport begin voting in a strike ballot over pay. The poll of staff employed in operations, customer services and baggage handling will run until October 11, the Unite union said in a statement. United’s UK employees are in ...

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• 23 September

  Airbus wins $4.85b China jets deal in blow to Boeing

  

    Bloomberg Airbus SE won a $4.85 billion deal to supply 40 airliners to a unit of China Southern Airlines Co, cementing its position in one of the world’s biggest aviation markets at the expense of chief rival Boeing Co. Xiamen Air, which has been an all-Boeing operator, agreed to buy Airbus’s A320neo narrow-body jets, according to a stock exchange ...

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• 23 September

  Taiwan may scrap quarantine for arrivals about mid-October

  

    Bloomberg Taiwan may scrap its three-day quarantine requirement for arrivals around mid-October if the pandemic continues to ease, as the island joins other regional holdouts moving to reopen their borders to travelers. The government will monitor the situation for another week, and plans to announce the easing two weeks ahead of the scheduled implementation, meaning the new rules would ...

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