June, 2022

• 15 June

  YB group forays into F&B sector

  

    Dubai / Gulf Time After having firmly entrenched itself in the construction sector in the cosmopolitan city of Dubai which is synonymous with the posh shopping malls, penthouses and real estate activity, YB group, has forayed into food and beverage sector. The maiden venture of the Group in F&B sector is Kefi which is located in Al Mamzar, Dubai. ...

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• 15 June

  Emirates takes triple gold for third year in a row for safety

  

    Dubai / WAM Emirates, renowned for its world-leading air transport services, has also been recognised for its outstanding ground transport services with awards in multiple categories, at the recent RoSPA awards, held for the first time in Dubai. The only airline to have achieved commendations three years in a row, the Emirates team took gold awards in three main ...

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• 15 June

  UK’s Johnson makes his biggest Brexit gamble yet

  

  A bill introduced to Parliament by Foreign Secretary Liz Truss seeks to reform the Northern Ireland Protocol, revive Northern Ireland’s power-sharing arrangement and protect the Good Friday Agreement. On all three fronts, however, it is as likely to make things worse — all while damaging Britain’s international reputation and further straining relations with its largest trading partner. Perhaps the calculus ...

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• 15 June

  Ambani’s empire gets a new spin

  

  After solidifying his control of a $2 telecom carriage business, the world’s seventh-richest man is seeking his next fortune in a $1 content-streaming enterprise. Actually, the spoils from the digital rights for Indian Premier League cricket, snagged by billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Viacom18 by dethroning Walt Disney & Co for the next five years, aren’t even at the $1 mark yet. ...

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• 15 June

  Do computers have feelings? Who decides?

    News that Alphabet Inc’s Google sidelined an engineer who claimed its artificial intelligence system had become sentient after he’d had several months of conversations with it prompted plenty of skepticism from AI scientists. Many have said, via postings on Twitter, that senior software engineer Blake Lemoine projected his own humanity onto Google’s chatbot generator LaMDA. Whether they’re right, or ...

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• 15 June

  ECB needs a bazooka to close the bond spreads

    In July 2008, with the global financial crisis trashing the world’s economy, then US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson asked legislators for the power to grant unlimited credit to his country’s mortgage agencies: “If you have a squirt gun in your pocket you may have to take it out; if you have a bazooka in your pocket, and people know ...

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• 15 June

  Air France-KLM raises $2.4b in rights issue to slash debt

  

    Bloomberg Air France-KLM vowed to expand low-cost and transatlantic flights after raising 2.26 billion euros ($2.4 billion) to repay a chunk of the state aid that helped the carrier survive the Covid-19 crisis. The proceeds of the rights issue launched last month will be used to reimburse about 1.7 billion euros of bonds issued last year and held by ...

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• 15 June

  IndiGo looks close to get delivery of first cargo jet

  

    Bloomberg IndiGo, India’s largest airline, looks close to inducting its first freighter plane as it seeks to capture the boom in air cargo driven by the pandemic. An IndiGo CarGo-branded aircraft was spotted at Seletar Airport in Singapore’s north east. Seletar is a much smaller airport than Changi Airport, serving mainly private jets, a few regional commercial flights and ...

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• 15 June

  Cathay Pacific’s first-half loss to narrow as airline plots recovery

  

    Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd flagged it will post a narrower first-half loss than the previous year on continued strong cargo demand and cost-cutting measures. “Our consolidated losses in the first half of 2022, while substantial, are expected to be lower than the consolidated losses reported in the first half of 2021,” Ronald Lam, the airline’s chief customer and ...

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• 15 June

  Canada to end vaccine rule for air travel

  

    Bloomberg Canada plans to end Covid-19 vaccine mandates for domestic air and rail travel, as well as outbound international travel, CBC News reported, citing people with direct knowledge of the decision. An announcement was expected on Tuesday. The government may reinstate the vaccine requirement if there’s a new variant of the virus, CBC reported. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government ...

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