August, 2021

• 31 August

  Dewa issues sustainability report for 2020

  DUBAi / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) issued its 8th annual Sustainability Report 2020, which focuses on Dewa’s efforts in promoting sustainability with its social, economic, and environmental aspects. This is achieved by adopting the best international practices as well as sustainable and integrated systems that ensure providing value-added services that meet stakeholders’ expectations. This reflects the importance ...

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• 31 August

  EGA records strongest-ever H1 with profit at AED1.74b

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) on Monday reported a profit of AED1.74 billion ($473 million) for the first half of 2021, the company’s strongest half-year financial performance ever. EGA’s adjusted Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortisation (adjusted EBITDA) was AED3.49 billion ($950 million), up 111 percent on the same period last year. Some 86 percent of ...

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• 31 August

  Etisalat partners with GMIS to accelerate 5G deployment

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS) and Etisalat announced a partnership to accelerate the deployment of the fifth generation of wireless networks (5G) to promote digital transformation both in the United Arab Emirates and globally. As a strategic partner to GMIS, Etisalat will share best practices from its experience in rolling 5G communication networks and ...

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• 31 August

  Tadweer awards operational deals worth AED148.22 million

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Waste Management Centre (Tadweer) has signed new operational contracts to provide pest control services in the northern region of Al Ain City. The centre has awarded contracts worth AED148.224 million which includes an AED74.655 million contract to Alphamed Abu Dhabi to provide pest control services in the sixth sector, and an AED73.569 million ...

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• 31 August

  Zayed University, UN Women join hands to advance gender equality

  

  Dubai / WAM Zayed University (ZU) has signed an alliance agreement with UN Women, the United Nations entity for gender equality and women’s empowerment, to tackle harmful stereotypes of women and men in media and advertising. As the first academic institution in the region to become an ally of the UN Women’s Unstereotype Alliance, UAE chapter, Zayed University will drive ...

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• 31 August

  Dubai to host region’s first snow volleyball tournament

  DUBAI / WAM Dubai is gearing up to host the region’s first official Snow Volleyball tournament in the second half of October this year in Ski Dubai at Mall of the Emirates. Held under the auspices of Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the four-day tournament is being organised by Esperia Volleyball Academy in cooperation with Dubai Sports Council and Ski ...

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• 31 August

  Covid-19: Seha announces free PCR tests for students

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM In cooperation with the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (Seha), the UAE’s largest healthcare network, has announced the provision of free Covid-19 PCR nasal swab tests for all students at selected Seha facilities and screening centres across the UAE. The initiative aims to implement the country leadership’s ambition to deliver ...

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• 31 August

  ADU continues hybrid learning environment

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi University (ADU) is gearing to kick-off the 2021-2022 academic year with a safe and secure hybrid learning environment that will make it easier for students to thrive and succeed. On August 29, ADU welcomed around 7,900 new and returning students to its upgraded, digitally sophisticated campuses in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Dubai, and Al ...

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• 31 August

  How Merkel turned back clock of German history

  

  Angela Merkel has long had her admirers in the Anglophone media. In November 2015 the Economist called her “the indispensable European.” A month later the Financial Times named her its “person of the year.” Time magazine proclaimed her “chancellor of the free world.” When Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, the New York Times dubbed Merkel “the ...

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• 31 August

  Used solar panels & developing world

  

  A few years ago, I visited a dusty warehouse selling secondhand clothes in Cotonou, Benin. In the back, behind bundles of used Canadian T-shirts, were two pallets of unboxed solar panels. I assumed they were destined for the roof. One of the employees told me otherwise. “Our boss sells them to his customers across the border,” she said, referring to ...

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