June, 2022

• 13 June

  AI boosted operational efficiency of public buses

    Dubai / WAM Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), has confirmed that the use of advanced technology and artificial intelligence (AI) had contributed to improving the public bus service and its operational efficiency. Al Tayer noted that the Remote Bus Performance Monitoring Centre had also contributed to ...

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• 13 June

  UAE sees 977 new recoveries from Covid-19

    Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) conducted 244,931 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement, the ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the necessary treatment. As part of ...

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• 13 June

  Dubai Customs certified ‘great place to work 2022’

  

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Customs has been certified among the best workplaces in UAE for second year in a row in the large-size company category. The annual report is compiled by management consultancy Great Place to Work, which compiles the survey in 60 countries. Researchers send out a ‘trust index’ to employees of companies, which measures how they are being ...

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• 13 June

  Final decision on Tanzania’s $40bn gas plan seen in 2025

  

    Bloomberg Tanzania is edging closer to its dream of developing a $40 billion liquefied natural gas project after the government and companies, including Equinor ASA and Shell Plc, signed initial agreements. The latest signing precedes a Host Government Agreement which is expected by the end of this year, according to President Samia Suluhu Hassan. The so-called HGA sets out ...

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• 13 June

  Jan 6 panel made the case against Trump

  

    At long last, the House Jan. 6 committee held its first hearing, and made it a pretty good one. Right at the top, Chairman Bennie Thompson gave us the right wording: Former President Donald Trump’s actions and those of his associates were an effort to “overthrow the government.” That’s what this is all about. That’s why the investigation is ...

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• 13 June

  Airline chaos makes fares harder to bear

  

  The summer travel season is picking up — and so are the airport horror stories. Long lines, delays and cancellations have been particularly rampant in the UK, Europe and Canada in recent weeks, but the US has certainly seen its fair share of travel blowups. So far this year, about 20% of the flights from US carriers have been delayed ...

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• 13 June

  Have health officials just given up on Covid-19?

    We’re now in a very weird pandemic phase. On Twitter, doctors such as Eric Topol sound five-alarm warnings about the latest subvariants of omicron. Offline, people are back to parties and restaurants — and will soon be flying around the world with no testing requirements to return to the US. Things feel as if they’ve lost any coherence. There’s ...

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• 13 June

  The UK’s Conservatives need to find a new leader

    If ever there was a Pyrrhic victory, Boris Johnson’s win in this week’s no-confidence vote must qualify. Britain’s prime minister secured the majority he needed to hang on, if he decides to, but by the surprisingly narrow margin of 211 votes to 148. More than 40% of his own party in Parliament told him to go. In a similar ...

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• 13 June

  Trump’s Air Force One deal pains the Pentagon, not just Boeing

  

  Bloomberg The fixed-price contract for the new Air Force One that Donald Trump talked Boeing Co. into signing hasn’t just caused the $1.5 billion in cumulative losses so far that the company’s CEO has lamented. It has also created headaches for the Air Force. Under a fixed-price agreement, a company’s incentive is to “finish and minimise costs” while the Pentagon ...

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• 13 June

  Judge backs Home Depot’s ban on staff wearing BLM

  

  Bloomberg A complaint by US labour board prosecutors against Home Depot Inc — for allegedly interfering with workers’ rights to protest against racial harassment — should be dismissed, an agency judge ruled. The US National Labour Relations Board’s (NLRB) general counsel alleged that the company violated federal labour law by preventing staff from displaying the message “Black Lives Matter” (BLM) ...

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