September, 2020

• 27 September

  Court judgements to go public on ADJD website

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) started publishing judgments rendered by the courts of the emirate of Abu Dhabi on its website as part of the efforts to raise legal awareness and enhance cognitive background among the community members, confirm the impartiality and transparency of the legal principles, and enhance the competitiveness of the emirate and ...

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• 27 September

  Don’t let politics affect virus-economy relief

  

  The US Congress has a full plate, to say the least. The coronavirus pandemic has claimed over 200,000 lives, and the virus will continue to spread this fall and winter. Members of both houses are up for re-election in November. The Senate will probably be asked to approve President Donald Trump’s next nominee to the Supreme Court. Funding to keep ...

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• 27 September

  Chanel designs a fashionable bond

  

  It’s important in the fashion world to make a big entrance and Chanel is doing just that with its inaugural 600 million-euro ($700 million) bond. It has chosen to issue debt that’s linked to environmental sustainability targets; the bond includes a penalty if the company doesn’t live up to its green goals. The famous French luxury brand — headquartered in ...

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• 27 September

  Is Covid-19 airborne? The CDC can’t say yet

  The CDC posted and then retracted a statement about Covid-19 being an “airborne” disease. While the switch generated tons of attention from the press, infectious disease experts say it’s not clear it would have made much difference if the word had remained. The term might just confuse the public even more. The more serious problem is that we are losing ...

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• 27 September

  Miners carve an ugly heritage for themselves

  The most shocking thing about Rio Tinto Group’s demolition of a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site in Australia’s remote Pilbara region is how commonplace it was. The Pilbara is source of about half of the world’s traded iron ore, worth about $65 billion a year. It’s also a crucial area of world heritage, home to the world’s largest collection of art from ...

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• 27 September

  Xi stays course on Xinjiang policies despite global furor

  

  Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping has doubled down on China’s policies towards Uighurs in the country’s western Xinjiang region despite international condemnation. “Facts prove that the party’s policies on Xinjiang in the new era are completely correct and must be adhered to in the long term,” the official Xinhua News Agency quoted Xi as saying during a work meeting held ...

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• 27 September

  S Korea calls on Kim for joint probe into shooting

  

  Bloomberg South Korea invited North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to participate in a joint probe into the fatal shooting of one of its nationals north of the border, after the regime warned South Korea over its maritime search for the body. North Korea should be “open-minded” towards investigating the incident as soon as possible, given the differences between the two ...

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• 27 September

  Trump raises vote prospect going to Congress

  

  Bloomberg Donald Trump expressed confidence he would be re-elected president if Congress has to break an Electoral College tie in the 2020 election. “I don’t want to end up in the Supreme Court and I don’t want to go back to Congress either, even though we have an advantage when we go back to Congress,” Trump said at a rally ...

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• 27 September

  Hong Kongers seek UK BNO passports

  

  Bloomberg Hong Kong residents renewed or applied for British National (Overseas) passports in record numbers last year as anti-government protests erupted in the city, according to the South China Morning Post. The 154,218 BNO passports issued in 2019 is an eightfold jump from the year earlier, the newspaper reported, citing British government data. The authority also recorded 32,813 renewals by ...

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• 27 September

  Pyongyang says it warned Seoul over maritime search

  Bloomberg North Korea warned South Korea about a maritime search operation it says entered its territorial waters, state news agency KCNA reported, citing a statement from the Korean Central News Agency. “We don’t care whether the south side conducts any kind of search operation in its territorial waters or not,” North Korea said. “But we can never overlook any intrusion ...

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