March, 2022

• 28 March

  Emirates Health Services earns four ISO certifications

  DUBAI / WAM Emirates Health Services (EHS) has earned four International Standardisation Organisation (ISO) certificates, reaffirming its status as a leader in health services and its commitment to enhancing the health services provided by its hospitals and healthcare centres. EHS received the ISO certifications for Innovation Management, Knowledge Management, Management System for Educational Institutions, and finally Guidance for Managing Competencies ...

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• 28 March

  Liberia celebrates its National Day at Expo 2020 Dubai

  

    DUBAI / WAM Liberia celebrated its Expo 2020 Dubai National Day with a visit by Dr George Manneh Weah, President of the Republic of Liberia. Dr Weah was welcomed by Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, UAE Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence and Commissioner General of Expo 2020 Dubai, and Reem Al Hashemy, UAE Minister of State for International ...

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• 28 March

  Make-A-Wish UAE fulfills wishes of 8 children in Egypt

  

    Abu Dhabi / WAM Make-A-Wish Foundation UAE has fulfilled the wishes of eight critically ill children at the Cairo University Specialised Paediatric Hospital — Abolreesh (CUSPH) — in Egypt. The ceremony was attended in the presence of Sheikha Shaikha bint Saif bin Mohammed Al Nahyan, the wife of HH Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, Adviser to the ...

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• 28 March

  National Grid to sell 60% stake in gas unit to Macquarie, BCI

  

    Bloomberg National Grid Plc agreed to sell 60% of its gas transmission business to a consortium including Macquarie Group Ltd in a deal that will value the asset at 9.6 billion pounds ($12.7 billion). The UK firm will get about 2.2 billion pounds in cash from Macquarie’s asset management arm and British Columbia Investment Management Corp (BCI), it said ...

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• 28 March

  TotalEnergies to not divest Russia assets, says CEO

  

    Bloomberg TotalEnergies SE doesn’t plan to divest its Russian assets amid the war in Ukraine, as doing so would essentially mean handing them over to President Vladimir Putin’s regime, Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanne said. The French energy major said it will no longer sign or renew contracts to buy oil and petroleum products from Russia, with the aim ...

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• 28 March

  Germany has its plans to pivot from Russian oil

  

    Germany announced plans to switch away from Russian oil. It’s a laudable goal, but the logistics of doing so present an immense hurdle. With (almost) no oil production of its own, Germany depends on imports. Those come in two forms — crude oil for processing in the country’s refineries and finished products such as the diesel fuel that powers ...

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• 28 March

  Is time up for British monarchy?

  

  Every year on July 31, on the site of an 18th-century coffee plantation in the Jamaican village of Woodside, there is a reenactment of Emancipation Day in 1838 when the slaves were freed by Royal Proclamation. People perform a memorial play, cite the proclamation and debate its meaning. The characters ask, “why should God save the Queen and not the ...

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• 28 March

  Will Russians use crypto to bust the sanctions?

    The financial strictures imposed on Russia have put a spotlight on cryptocurrencies. Could the Russian government, or sanctioned officials, use digital assets to hide and move their wealth, undermining efforts to punish President Vladimir Putin’s regime for its bloody war in Ukraine? Here’s where things stand: Global illicit crypto activity amounted to $14 billion in 2021 — or about ...

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• 28 March

  Now, don’t let Taiwan become next Ukraine

    Judging by official Chinese media, President Xi Jinping appears to have focused more on the question of Taiwan than the Russian invasion of Ukraine when he spoke with his US counterpart Joe Biden. If Xi fears US support for what he calls “Taiwan independence” forces, many US analysts worry about the opposite — that China might be inspired by ...

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• 28 March

  Beijing retrieves second black box from crashed jet

  

    Bloomberg China has retrieved the second black box from a jet that crashed after days of searching, as investigators try to work out what happened to the China Eastern Airlines flight carrying 132 people that plummeted from a cruise altitude. The flight data recorder was found 5 feet (1.5 metres) beneath the soil, state broadcaster CCTV reported. Investigators made ...

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