March, 2021

• 17 March

  RAK issues safety rules for Ramadan

  RAS AL KHAIMAH / WAM Major General Ali Abdullah bin Alwan Al Nuaimi, Commander-in-Chief of the Ras Al Khaimah Police and Head of the Local Emergency Crisis and Disaster Team in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, on Tuesday announced a set of precautionary measures during the Holy month of Ramadan. Major General Al Nuaimi said that these decisions include ...

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• 17 March

  Ras Al Khaimah issues safety rules during Ramadan

  

  RAS AL KHAIMAH / WAM Major General Ali Abdullah bin Alwan Al Nuaimi, Commander-in-Chief of the Ras Al Khaimah Police and Head of the Local Emergency Crisis and Disaster Team in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, has announced a set of precautionary measures during the Holy month of Ramadan. Major General Al Nuaimi said that these decisions include restrictions ...

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• 17 March

  DP World welcomes 3 new STS cranes at Berbera Port

  DUBAI-BERBERA / WAM DP World Berbera, a regional maritime hub in the Horn of Africa, on Tuesday welcomed the arrival of three new ship-to-shore (STS) gantry cranes, as part of its current project to expand and further develop the Port of Berbera. The three cranes were brought to the port by the vessel Zhen-Hua 29, and were safely off-loaded in ...

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• 17 March

  Covid-19: UAE reports 410,736 total recoveries

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 208,085 additional Covid-19 tests over the 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 ...

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• 17 March

  Expo 2020 Volunteers Program calls for enrollment by March 31

  

  DUBAI / WAM Expo 2020 Dubai has urged UAE citizens and residents who wish to act as ambassadors for the country and help welcome millions of visitors to the first World Expo in the region to sign up for the Expo 2020 Volunteers Programme, with applications set to close on March 31. Following a huge response garnered with the support ...

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• 17 March

  Abu Dhabi Court convicts four people, jewellery firm for defrauding 4,000 people

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM The court in charge of the fight against money laundering and tax evasion within the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) convicted four accused persons, all Asians, and a company owned by one of the accused, for committing money laundering and fraud against 4,000 victims of the same nationality and appropriating their money by enticing them with ...

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• 17 March

  Emirates marks one year of passenger freighter operations

  

  Dubai / Emirates Business On Monday, March 16, 2020, Emirates flight EK 2503 took off from Dubai to Kuwait. Although operated on a Boeing 777-300ER passenger aircraft, EK 2503 carried no passengers but about 34 tonnes of bellyhold cargo that was urgently required in Kuwait. It was the first time in the history of its operations that Emirates had operated ...

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• 17 March

  UK oil industry faces output drop

  

  Bloomberg The UK’s oil and gas industry faces a struggle to recover from an investment slump sparked by the coronavirus and in the longer term will have to manage a prolonged decline in output, according to its trade body. Production may decline further this year and next, following a 5% decrease in 2020, Oil & Gas UK said in a ...

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• 17 March

  Germany’s emissions fall by most in 30 years

  Bloomberg Germany’s greenhouse-gas emissions fell by the most since 1990 last year as its exit from coal started to hit and the pandemic reduced transportation. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas is looking to put Europe’s biggest economy at the forefront of the fight against climate change, calling for the development of a global market for green hydrogen as a two-day energy ...

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• 17 March

  Raising taxes is no way to fund an infrastructure bill

  

  With the Covid-19 relief bill behind us, attention is turning to infrastructure — a longstanding priority for President Joe Biden’s economic recovery program. A big infrastructure bill would achieve multiple goals at the same time: putting Americans to work, raising wages, strengthening the economy, improving industrial competitiveness and speeding the transition to green energy. Given the confluence of all of ...

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