March, 2022

• 4 March

  Workshop on national nutrition strategy 2022-2030 organised

  

    DUBAI / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has recently organised a workshop for the National Nutrition Committee, in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO), to develop the 2nd edition of the national nutrition strategy 2022-2030 and the related action plan. The workshop is part of the Ministry’s plans to improve the nutritional status of the ...

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• 4 March

  Edge, CompTIA partner for globally recognised certification

    ABU DHABI / WAM Edge Group entity, BEACON RED, an advanced solutions provider focusing on tackling complex national security threats, on Thursday announced a strategic agreement with CompTIA, the leading provider of vendor-neutral certifications for information technology (IT) professionals, to deliver globally recognised training in the UAE and wider Middle Eastern and North African (Mena) region. The announcement was ...

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• 4 March

  Ewec invites proposals for development of Shuweihat S4 project

  

    Abu Dhabi / WAM Emirates Water and Electricity Company (Ewec) has issued the Request for Proposals (RFP) to qualified companies and consortiums that had expressed interest in developing the new Shuweihat S4 Reverse Osmosis (RO) Independent Water Project (IWP). The Shuweihat S4 project will desalinate seawater using RO, a low carbon-intensity technology, to supply up to 318,225 cubic metres ...

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• 4 March

  China’s Ukraine ambiguity is getting unsustainable

  

  Sitting on the fence is uncomfortable. Faced with a geopolitical fight that is both unthinkably brutal and sprawling in its consequences, Beijing officials are finding that such a posture might also, in the long run, be impossible. When President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, he appears to have shocked Chinese officialdom along with the rest of the world. It’s difficult to ...

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• 4 March

  Don’t underestimate Target’s allure

  

    Like someone mistaking a Target dress for a designer frock, the stock market has misread the retailer. Shares in the big-box store dubbed “Tarzhay” for its chic clothing outperformed strongly from 2017 until a few months ago. But since November they have underperformed both the market and shares of rival Walmart Inc Investors have worried that Target Corp’s profitability ...

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• 4 March

  Russia can turn food into a weapon in future crises

  One of Russia’s greatest strategic weaknesses has recently turned into an advantage. Climate change may tilt the balance further in Moscow’s favour. Farm production — traditionally an area in which Russia has underperformed due to the low quality of its frigid, drought-prone agricultural land — has boomed over the past decade. That’s important, because food exports have long been a ...

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• 4 March

  Britain must find right way on war refugees

    Boris Johnson struggles for an asylum policy as generous as the rhetoric he has deployed. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has already offered to host a government in exile should Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy be forced to flee. Extending that same spirit of solidarity to those Ukrainians who are similarly dislodged from their homeland would give real underpinning to ...

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• 4 March

  Pandemic rebound clouded as war lifts oil, says Lufthansa

  

  Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG said the war in Ukraine will cloud prospects for a long-awaited recovery from the coronavirus pandemic as fuel prices climb and flights are diverted to avoid shuttered skies. Europe’s biggest airline cut its annual loss by two-thirds in 2021 as Covid curbs eased, according to a statement. Earnings this year should show a further improvement, but ...

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• 4 March

  Burberry, H&M scale back Russia business

  

    Bloomberg Fashion retailers Hennes & Mauritz AB, Burberry Group Plc and Boohoo Group Plc are curtailing operations in Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, with the Swedish clothing chain expressing concern about “tragic developments” there. H&M is pausing all sales in Russia after shutting stores in Ukraine for safety reasons, it said. Burberry has halted shipments to the country ...

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• 4 March

  Boeing gets caught in a bind as US bans giant Russian cargo jets

  

    Bloomberg Boeing Co is caught in a bind after the US barred Russian airlines from its skies following the invasion of Ukraine. The move could affect Boeing’s main wide-body plant in Everett, Washington, near Seattle, where giant Antonov An-124 cargo planes operated by Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Group are used to fly structures from other plants. The US Transportation Department had ...

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