November, 2021

• 29 November

  WAM produces documentary to mark UAE’s 50th National Day

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Emirates News Agency (WAM) has announced the production of a documentary entitled “1971”, coinciding with the celebrations of UAE’s 50th National Day. The 13-minute documentary provides documentation on the march of the Union, whose foundations were laid by the Founding Father, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. It presents the country’s development experience, ...

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• 29 November

  Expo 2020 Dubai visit numbers nudge 4.8mn

  

  Dubai / WAM Expo 2020 Dubai visit numbers have climbed to 4,766,419 in the period up to November 28, driven by music, sporting stars and continued strong take-up of the November Weekday Pass. Jubilee stage played host to a packed week of entertainment, including Kuwaiti singer Abdullah Al-Ruwaished and famed Egyptian singer Mohamed Hamaki, while a formidable all-female line-up delighted ...

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• 29 November

  ADIB awards AED450.000 to 3 Islamic finance enterprises

  Emirates Business Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (Adib), a leading financial institution, and Refinitiv, a London Stock Exchange Group business, on Monday announced that it has awarded AED 450.000 to three Islamic finance enterprises as part of its 6th edition of Ethical Finance Innovation Challenge and Awards (Efica) which was launched to recognise companies and individuals that successfully develop ground-breaking solutions ...

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• 29 November

  BP plans green hydrogen base in UK amid energy transition

  

  Bloomberg BP Plc plans to build a green hydrogen facility in northeast England that could start producing the gas by 2025, part of a massive project to help the oil major transition towards cleaner sources of energy. The HyGreen Teesside proposal follows one made earlier this year to develop a blue hydrogen facility in the same location. That would produce ...

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• 29 November

  DiDi Global’s secrets risk China’s Wall Street future

  

  A possible delisting of DiDi Global Inc at the behest of Beijing risks repercussions well beyond the fortunes of those who bought into the Chinese ride-hailing company. Tech companies from Tencent Holdings Ltd and SoftBank Corp to asset managers BlackRock Inc and Vanguard Group need to be prepared. In using national security as an excuse to reverse Didi’s June offering ...

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• 29 November

  Omicron: Keep calm with vaccination

  

  At least we’re learning. Remember when the early reaction to the outbreak of a deadly virus in Wuhan was to discourage people from changing their travel plans? South Africa’s government didn’t sit on information about a new worrying variant of Sars-CoV-2, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has now dubbed omicron. It didn’t downplay it. On the contrary, authorities shared ...

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• 29 November

  Safe, clean water is the most fundamental in US

  Now that President Joe Biden has signed the $550 billion infrastructure legislation, $15 billion will be spent to remove lead from the nation’s drinking-water systems. Of all the economic and social necessities in the spending package — from roadways and bridges to the power grid and broadband expansion — ensuring access to safe, clean water is perhaps the most fundamental. ...

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• 29 November

  Macron is done being the UK’s border guard

  Brexit was supposed to let the UK “take back control” of its borders from others, namely the European Union (EU). Yet, as with so many other simplistic slogans echoed by populist administrations around the world, it has managed to achieve the opposite. In Northern Ireland, it has threatened peace and created new political divisions over the compromises needed to avoid ...

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• 29 November

  Omicron’s curbs from Japan to Spain wreak havoc on air travel

  

  Bloomberg Airlines, passengers and businesses had to respond to a deluge of travel restrictions introduced to slow the spread of the omicron coronavirus variant. An initial spate of flight bans from southern Africa, where omicron was first detected, gave way to wider-ranging measures that will make travel more expensive and less convenient — if possible at all — recalling earlier ...

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• 29 November

  Airbus has five weeks to deliver 100 more planes

  

  Bloomberg Airbus SE needs to accelerate jetliner deliveries in December if it’s to reach a goal of shipping 600 planes this year, according to people with knowledge of the situation. The European manufacturer’s 2021 delivery tally reached 500 aircraft, according to the people, who asked not to be named before official numbers are published. That leaves Airbus about 100 short ...

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