August, 2021

• 17 August

  ADFD-funded AED51mn energy projects inaugurated in Comoros

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Major electricity projects valued at AED51 million (US$13.9 million) have been inaugurated by the government of the Comoros. Financed by Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), these projects will supply electricity to more than 12,000 homes and are expected to stimulate the economy of the island nation. Azali Assoumani, President of the Comoros, attended the inauguration ...

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• 17 August

  Syria pavilion to highlight world’s first alphabet at Expo 2020 Dubai

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Dr Ghassan Abbas, Syria’s Ambassador to the UAE and Commissioner-General of the Syria Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, said his country’s participation in Expo 2020 Dubai will take place under the theme, “We Will Rise Together”, which is inspired by Syria’s history and future aspirations. Visitors to the Syrian pavilion can see an identical replication of ...

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• 17 August

  Dubai to host Light Middle East 2021 in September

  Dubai / WAM The Dubai World Trade Centre is preparing to host the 15th edition of Light Middle East from September 28-30. The grand event will see exhibitors from 23 countries shine the spotlight on how they’ve pivoted towards growing market opportunities over the last 12 to 18 months. Local stalwarts including Abensal, Cinmar, Creation Gulf, and Scientechnic, will rub ...

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• 17 August

  Covid-19: UAE reports 1,544 new recoveries

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced it conducted 247,213 additional Covid-19 tests over past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement on Tuesday, the ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the necessary treatment. As ...

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• 17 August

  UAE’s ‘100 Million Meals’ campaign distributes 28mn meals to Palestine

  

  DUBAI / WAM The “100 Million Meals” campaign has successfully delivered 28 million meals in Palestine in cooperation with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). Organised by the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives (MBRGI), the campaign enabled the WFP to provide food support to more than 310,000 people in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Some ...

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• 17 August

  Nestlé gets Taqdeer award

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Swiss multinational conglomerate Nestlé, the largest food company in the world, was honoured on Tuesday with the Taqdeer Award’s Golden Card for Labour Excellence. At a ceremony held on Tuesday at the company’s regional headquarters in the Jebel Ali Free Zone, Blue Cards were also presented to a group of the company’s workers selected in the ...

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• 17 August

  EGS inks deal with Dubai Airports for security, fire safety training

  

  DUBAI / Emirates Business Emirates Group Security (EGS), the leading aviation security service and learning and development provider in the region, has partnered with Dubai Airports (DA) to enhance specialist skills training for airport employees, recently completing the first Fire Warden and Safety training session for Dubai Airports’ Serco Middle East employees. The training session is the first of many ...

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• 17 August

  In the end, Afghan army was always doomed

  

  In 2006, as a Navy vice admiral, I was in Iraq traveling with Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld. At a town hall with US troops, he famously answered a question about the US Army’s lack of armored vehicles by saying, “You go to war with the army you have — not the army you might want or wish to have ...

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• 17 August

  HK chooses fear over living with Covid

  

  Hong Kong has decided to live with the fear of the virus, instead of the virus itself. If the territory wants to survive in a post-pandemic world, then the false bubble of security it has created can’t last. Last week, a 38-year-old vaccinated woman tested positive with the L452R mutant strain, present in the Delta variant of the virus. She ...

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• 17 August

  Malaysia isn’t done with political upheaval

  The resignation of Muhyiddin Yassin as Malaysia’s prime minister closes one chapter in the country’s political travails. The exit is unlikely to end the parliamentary bloodletting or solve the economic and health crises rocking a nation that was once a bastion of stability in Southeast Asia. As long as the ethnic-Malay ruling class is split, questions of legitimacy that undermined ...

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