March, 2021

• 28 March

  Covid-19: UAE reports 2,428 new recoveries

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 248,372 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement on Saturday, 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 ...

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• 28 March

  HFZA-based ATS Terminals greatly raises tank storage

  

  Sharjah / WAM The Hamriyah Free Zone-based ATS Terminals FZE increased its tank storage capacity from 42,000 CBM to 72,000 CBM, at a total investment of AED 55 million. The state-of-the-art terminal is completely automated with efficient and new-generation tank monitoring and loading systems, tank gauging systems, automated firefighting systems, and 24 /7 security surveillance. ATS Terminals FZE offers services ...

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• 28 March

  Sharjah, Kosovo explore investment opportunities

  

  Sharjah / WAM Abdullah Sultan Al Owais, Chairman of the Sharjah Chamber, received Avni Arifi, ambassador of Kosovo to the UAE, to discuss means of strengthening the economic, commercial, and investment relations between the UAE and Kosovo. Held in the presence of Raghda Hamad Taryam, Board Member, Mohammed Ahmed Amin Al Awadi, Director-General of the SCCI, and a number of ...

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• 28 March

  ION installs region’s first ultra-fast EV charging stations in Abu Dhabi

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM In response to growing demand for electric vehicle infrastructure (ION) the UAE-based sustainable transportation joint venture between Bee’ah and Crescent Enterprises, installed high-power, ultra-fast charging stations with a total capacity of up to 350KW, on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi. Capable of charging electric vehicles (EV) through a connection to a user interface unit, the stations can ...

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• 28 March

  Adek launches #NeverStopLearning activities programme

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM While schools throughout Abu Dhabi will be on a two-week spring break from March 28, the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK) intends to keep students entertained and enrich their learning opportunities with the launch of 2021 #NeverStopLearning activities programme. Under the programme, students in Grade 10/Year 11 to Grade 12/Year 13 can join ...

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• 28 March

  Russia to begin carbon-trading trial in Far East next year

  

  Bloomberg Russia will start its first trial of a marketplace to trade carbon credits on the remote Far East region of Sakhalin starting next year, as the world’s largest energy exporter faces criticism for being slow to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The goal is to have the region become carbon neutral by 2025, Deputy Economy Minister Ilya Torosov said in an ...

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• 28 March

  Mexican president presents energy bill to boost Pemex control

  

  Bloomberg Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sent a bill to congress that seeks to give state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos greater control over fuel prices, distribution, imports and marketing, his spokesman said. The proposal would modify the country’s hydrocarbon law to allow the Energy Ministry and main regulator to suspend permits “with the goal of guaranteeing the interests of ...

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• 28 March

  Keep those pandemic savings for retirement

  

  With broad swaths of the US economy locked down for more than a year, those with good-paying jobs have had fewer opportunities to spend. The result is the highest saving rate on record and an estimated $1.7 trillion stockpile of pandemic savings. It’s widely assumed — and even encouraged — that consumers will spend a good portion of that money ...

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• 28 March

  The real oversight of social media

  

  As you watch yet another congressional hearing where social media CEOs awkwardly put on suits and ties to defend the indefensible to the uncomprehending, you couldn’t be blamed for feeling hopeless. Our long-standing policies for regulating traditional media have collapsed in the face of user-generated content, with networks of tens of millions of people creating it in real time at ...

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• 28 March

  The IRS should do more to nab wealthy tax dodgers

  President Joe Biden has big, ambitious plans that will continue to ring up unwieldy bills for the federal government. His administration will have to fund a significant — but still undetermined — portion of those bills by raising taxes on affluent Americans. And that won’t go well unless Biden’s team can get ahead of well-heeled taxpayers who are inclined to ...

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