July, 2021

• 25 July

  Sharjah Chamber, South Korea explore fostering economic ties

  

  Sharjah / WAM The Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has discussed with the Consulate-General of the Republic of South Korea in Dubai means of enhancing economic cooperation and commercial relations between companies and investment institutions operating in Sharjah and South Korea. They also discussed ways of supporting partnerships, along with investment opportunities available in information technology, healthcare, tourism, ...

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• 25 July

  UAE, Guinea discuss ways to enhance ties in police, security fields

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM Alpha Condé, President of Guinea, has received Major General Dr Ahmed Nasser Al Raisi, Inspector General of the Ministry of the Interior (MoI), and his accompanying delegation. During the meeting, the sides discussed means to enhance relations between Guinea and the UAE in police and security fields. President Condé stressed the depth of the UAE-Guinea relations, ...

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• 25 July

  Khalifa University becomes Global E3 Consortium member

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM Khalifa University (KU) is now a member of the Global Engineering Education Exchange Program (Global E3 Consortium), a consortium-based exchange programme established in 1995 that provides undergraduate engineering students an opportunity to study in leading universities from around the world while being able to pay tuition at their home university. As a top ranked university in ...

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• 25 July

  World’s top platinum giants eye solar power

  

  Bloomberg The world’s biggest platinum miners are ramping up plans to build renewable energy plants to free them from power outages that have plagued South Africa for more than a decade and to reduce their carbon footprint. Sibanye Stillwater Ltd, the No. 1 platinum miner, Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd and Anglo American Platinum Ltd said they plan to scale up ...

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• 25 July

  New Jersey amps up wind fight, overriding beach towns

  

  Bloomberg Offshore wind farm developers are finding one more thing in common with the fossil fuel industry: community backlash on both sides of the Atlantic. Much like the resistance to fracking in parts of the US and the UK, oceanfront towns have fought against power lines running ashore from wind farms, even as the massive turbines themselves are mostly out ...

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• 25 July

  Enel to boost its electric mobility business 20-fold

  

  Bloomberg Enel SpA, Italy’s largest utility, plans to dramatically boost its electric mobility business in the next decade, installing 4 million charging stations worldwide from the current 180,000, Chief Executive Officer Francesco Starace said in an interview with daily Corriere della Sera on Sunday. “Our role is to act alongside car manufacturers in order to understand how to set up ...

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• 25 July

  Why Modi’s India can’t repeat its 1991 miracle

  

  Exactly 30 years ago, a looming balance of payments crisis finally convinced India’s leaders to dismantle its socialist economy, ushering in private enterprise and years of higher growth. Those pundits and policy makers hoping that Prime Minister Narendra Modi might use the country’s Covid-induced slump to launch similarly dramatic reforms, however, are likely to be disappointed. That’s not because Modi ...

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• 25 July

  Snap’s secrets of super-specialness

  

  Snap Inc is proving itself to be a cut above the rest. Its latest results show why. The social-media company reported second-quarter earnings that crushed Wall Street’s expectations. Revenue in the period surged 116% from a year earlier to $982 million, handily beating the Bloomberg consensus estimate of $847 million. Snap’s daily active users jumped by 23%, also ahead of ...

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• 25 July

  Evergrande’s boss needs a lot of new friends now

  In the past, China Evergrande Group has always been able to wiggle out of trouble. In turbulent times, billionaire founder Hui Ka Yan would turn to his tycoon friends to prop up his stocks and bonds. The persistent support they’ve provided — buying up Evergrande debt — is why the developer is also Asia’s largest dollar junk bond issuer. Hui’s ...

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• 25 July

  London’s Delta surge should jolt New York

  London is in a precarious position when it comes to Covid-19. Remaining restrictions were recently lifted in the city along with the rest of the UK even as the highly infectious delta variant drives cases higher. London’s delta wave won’t be as bad as past outbreaks — hospitalisations and deaths remain low because of its high vaccination rate. But the ...

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