May, 2022

• 27 May

  UAE, India discuss opportunities within energy transition, trade

  

    Abu Dhabi / WAM Dr Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and Special Envoy for Climate Change, held a series of high-level meetings with government and business leaders in India, focused on opportunities within the energy transition and industrial growth. The visit comprised bilateral meetings with senior Indian government officials, including Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Minister ...

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• 27 May

  Dewa wins three ‘global excellence’ awards in US

  

    DUBAI / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has won three Global Excellence Assembly Awards 2022. These are the Excellence in Innovation Award, the Business Innovation Award, and the Outstanding Customer Service Award. Dewa is the first entity to win three awards in the same cycle based on the Baldrige Excellence Framework criteria, the highest level of recognition ...

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• 27 May

  UAE, France discuss defence cooperation

    Abu Dhabi / WAM Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Bowardi, Minister of State for Defence Affairs, received a call from Sébastien Lecornu, French Minister of Defence. During a phone call, the two sides discussed cooperation relations between the two friendly countries, especially with regard to defence and military issues and ways to further develop them to serve the mutual interests ...

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• 27 May

  DP World explores metaverse to solve supply chain challenges

  

    Abu Dhabi / WAM DP World, a leading global end-to-end logistics provider, on Thursday announced the creation of DPMETAWORLD, a new initiative aimed at bringing cutting edge virtual solutions to real-world supply chain challenges. Across the industries in which DP World operates, supply chains are moving from analogue to embrace new digital solutions. This project will allow DP World ...

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• 27 May

  UAE University, MBZUAI strengthen research ties

  

    Abu Dhabi / WAM A delegation from UAE University (UAEU) was welcomed at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) by Professor Fakhri Karray, Provost of MBZUAI, and Sultan Al Hajji, Vice President for Public Affairs and Alumni Relations. Professor Ahmed Ali Murad, the Associate Provost for Research, who was also in attendance, highlighted that the visit aimed ...

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• 27 May

  GPSSA to disburse AED646m in retirement pensions today

    Abu Dhabi / WAM The General Pension and Social Security Authority (GPSSA) announced on Thursday that pensions for May are due to be disbursed on Friday. This month’s pensions amount to AED646,085,610.82, which is an increase of AED59,468,297.02 in comparison to May 2021, during which the value of pensions amounted to AED586,617,313.80, the UAE pension authority explained. GPSSA explained ...

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• 27 May

  EGA, AUS collaborate to research food waste re-use

  

    Abu Dhabi / WAM Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) on Thursday announced a collaboration with the American University of Sharjah’ (AUS) College of Engineering to research the economic and environmental benefits of re-using food waste to enrich manufactured soils made from bauxite residue, and further applications in waste-to-energy. The AED1.6 million three-year research project is the second phase of EGA’s ...

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• 27 May

  Dewa wins three global excellence assembly awards

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has won three Global Excellence Assembly Awards 2022. These are the Excellence in Innovation Award, the Business Innovation Award, and the Outstanding Customer Service Award. Dewa is the first entity to win three awards in the same cycle based on the Baldrige Excellence Framework criteria, the highest level of recognition for ...

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• 27 May

  Feed the world? India has a chapati crisis at home

  

  The only thing India can possibly do during this year’s global food crisis is to not make it any worse for its own poor. As the cost of basic nutrition balloons everywhere, the second-most-populous nation’s best bet is to fall back on its extensive system of state procurement and public distribution to soften the blow. But, around mid-April, Prime Minister ...

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• 27 May

  Good ship M&S never had it better

  

  “Never the same again” was the name Marks & Spencer Group Plc gave to its effort to transform in the wake of Covid-19. But perhaps “Never had it so good” would have been more apt. As the high-street bellwether emerged from the pandemic, it benefited from consumers’ pent-up demand and the failure of a raft of rivals. Add in shoppers’ ...

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