January, 2021

• 13 January

  Dubai opens 1,303 new food outlets in 2020

  

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Municipality revealed that 1,303 new food establishments were opened during 2020 in the emirate, at the rate of 3.5 establishments per day. Sultan Al Taher, Director of Food Inspection Section at Dubai Municipality, said that total number of food establishments in Dubai at the end of last year reached 19,259, which is expected to reach 20,000 ...

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• 13 January

  Dubai issues 42,640 new licences in 2020

  

  DUBAI / WAM Dubai’s Department of Economic Development (Dubai Economy) on Tuesday announced that it issued 42,640 new licences in 2020, an increase of 4% from the 40,891 new licences issued in 2019. According to a recent report of Dubai Economy’s Business Registration & Licensing (BRL) sector, 64% of the new licences issued in 2020 were professional (27,307), 35% were ...

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• 13 January

  Seha begins administration of Covid-19 vaccine to UAE community at 40 locations

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, (Seha), the UAE’s largest healthcare network, has announced the opening of two Covid-19 Vaccination centre in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and one in Dubai, for members of the community who wish to receive the Beijing Institute of Biological Product’s inactivated vaccine. The Covid-19 vaccination centres, located in Abu Dhabi Cruise ...

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• 13 January

  Covid-19: UAE vaccinates 108,401 people in 24 hours

  Abu Dhabi / WAM In line with its plan to vaccinate more than 50 percent of the country’s population against Covid-19, the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that 108,401 people have received the coronavirus vaccine over the last 24hrs, bringing to 1,275,652 the total number of jabs taken so far across the nation, at 12.09 doses per 100 ...

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• 13 January

  Expo Centre Sharjah hosted 20 successful exhibitions in 2020

  

  Sharjah / WAM The Expo Centre Sharjah hosted 20 specialised exhibitions in 2020, with the participation of more than 2,500 companies and brands, while adopting stringent precautionary and preventive measures to ensure the safety of visitors and exhibitors. This comes at a time when the international exhibitions industry was hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. Nine exhibitions were organised in ...

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• 13 January

  Battery race gets a contender in Australia

  

  Bloomberg Another big battery project has been announced in Australia, as energy storage developers rush to profit from the nation’s abundant sunshine and wind resources. Origin Energy Ltd issued an expression of interest to firms to supply and install a 700-megawatt facility near the Eraring coal plant in New South Wales, with the first phase planned to start by the ...

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• 13 January

  BHP invests in firm seeking to make emissions-free steel

  

  Bloomberg BHP Group, the world’s biggest mining company, has invested in a startup company seeking to develop less-polluting ways of making steel. While many in the mining industry have outlined how they plan to curb their own direct pollution, those emissions are a fraction of ones produced by customers, with steelmaking one of the biggest global emitters. Rather than set ...

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• 13 January

  How much can we trust each other on vaccines?

  

  If one country approves a coronavirus vaccine, should another just trust it and follow suit? Covid-19’s rapid global spread pushed labs and manufacturers to develop vaccines quickly. Several are now in use and more are in various stages of development. Early predictions that a vaccine would take 12 to 18 months to arrive seemed optimistic. Hand it to the pharmaceutical ...

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• 13 January

  Malaysia power play crosses a line

  

  Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin finally got the state of emergency he first sought months ago. The sweeping powers ostensibly give him a shot at quashing a surge in coronavirus infections while, critically for the future of his leadership, putting the lid on a political rebellion that threatened his precarious 10-month tenure. The emergency decree was declared by the king ...

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• 13 January

  Will negative interest rates work in the UK?

  The UK is looking for ways to set itself apart from its European neighbours after Brexit. On monetary policy, however, Britain could soon become more European. The Bank of England is studying the possibility of cutting interest rates below zero, as central banks in Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland and the euro zone have all done in the recent past. Policy makers ...

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