May, 2022

• 23 May

  UoS is first university in Arab world to earn ‘Stars gold rating’

  

    Sharjah / WAM The University of Sharjah (UoS) is the first university in the Arab World to earn a Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (Stars) Gold rating in recognition of its sustainability achievements from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (Aashe) in Florida, United States. Stars, is a global rating system and a transparent, ...

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• 23 May

  UAE fully prepared to deal with monkeypox: Ministry

    Dubai / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has stressed that the UAE’s health system is fully prepared to handle the spread of monkeypox, adding it is proactively investigating and closely monitoring any suspect cases. Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease that occurs primarily in tropical rainforest areas of Central and West Africa and is occasionally exported ...

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• 23 May

  31st Abu Dhabi International Book Fair kicks off

  

    Abu Dhabi / WAM The 31st edition of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (Adibf, organised by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC), part of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), begins on Monday under the theme’Inspire, Innovate, Enrich’. The Fair, running from May 23-29 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre ...

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• 23 May

  How does Davos elite deal with war in Ukraine?

  

    When the global elite meets at the Swiss resort of Davos, for a spring gathering of the World Economic Forum (WEF), war will have forced its way to the top of the agenda. The pandemic has shrunk the annual jamboree of the great and the wealthy. Absent will be Russian oligarchs who hung around in “outer Davos” mostly uninvited ...

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• 23 May

  Johnson wants ‘Global Britain’ again

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants “Global Britain” to be seen as a superpower once again. While his Conservative government doesn’t seem quite certain how to manage this, it argued in a landmark policy paper last year that, in one area at least, the goal had already been achieved: The United Kingdom was a “soft-power superpower.” According to the government, this ...

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• 23 May

  And, Australia votes for climate action this time

    Winning power is the easy part of politics. It’s what you do with it that counts. That’s going to be the challenge for Australia’s new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, after a striking election victory that has swept the right-of-center Liberal-National Coalition from power after nine years. The scale of victory for Albanese’s Labor party looks surprisingly modest. As a ...

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• 23 May

  Governments should stop making gasoline cheaper

    The oil market is screaming at consumers to rein in their use of fuel. Governments are doing everything they can to have us to buy, buy, buy. But there can only be one winner in this battle, and it won’t be our elected representatives — or us. In March, just after the UK government announced a year-long cut in ...

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• 22 May

  Aeroflot back to future as sanctions ground its goals

  

  Bloomberg Hours after President Vladimir Putin announced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Aeroflot PJSC’s top executives gathered at the airline’s headquarters down the street from the Kremlin. In the official part of the surreal board meeting, they discussed the flagship Russian carrier’s budget without mentioning the war or any risks it might create, according to two people familiar with the proceedings ...

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• 22 May

  Airbus sees business jet sales boost despite war

  

  Bloomberg Airbus SE’s corporate-jet division is more optimistic about prospects for this year, even as the Russia-Ukraine conflict and Chinese coronavirus lockdowns weigh on sales. The European planemaker had a slow couple of years for orders for its newest business-jet model during the Covid-19 pandemic, with almost all work travel curtailed. The corporate version of the A220 was launched in ...

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• 22 May

  Jet Airways to resume flying by September in Indian market

  

    Bloomberg Jet Airways India Ltd, the erstwhile bankrupt carrier undergoing a court-monitored resolution, is expecting to return to the skies in the quarter to September as competition in India’s cutthroat air travel market intensifies with new entrants. Jet Airways got its flying license from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) after successful proving flights — or test flights ...

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