June, 2020

• 15 June

  Residential projects in UAE continue momentum in H1

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM During the first half of 2020, the UAE continued supporting housing projects for citizens with the same momentum, despite the challenges imposed by the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. The UAE adopted a comprehensive national strategy for developing the housing sector, to serve citizens and maintain stability and prosperity. The Follow-Up Committee of the Initiatives of the UAE ...

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• 15 June

  Seha treats 247 Covid-19 patients with blood plasma

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (Seha), obtained 402 blood plasma units from donors who recovered from the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) which were used to treat 247 infected patients until the end of May 2020. The number of blood samples drawn from donors in Abu Dhabi reached 18,811 from two of Seha’s blood banks in the ...

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• 15 June

  Dubai Diamond Exchange ready to host regular activities

  

  DUBAI / WAM The Dubai Diamond Exchange (DDE) is open for business and ready to host regular activities, including tenders, in line with the easing of restrictions across the emirate, it was announced. In a statement, DDE said the facility where it is located, DMCC (the world’s flagship Free Zone and Government of Dubai Authority on commodities trade and enterprise), ...

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• 15 June

  ADIBF’s virtual session series ends on a high note

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF’s) Virtual Session series came to an end with an interview with fashion journalist and author Hafsa Lodi about her new book Modesty: A Fashion Paradox. During the talk, titled ‘How Journalism, Social Media and Storytelling Combine in Modesty: A Fashion Paradox’, Lodi examined how the modest fashion trend has ...

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• 15 June

  Abu Dhabi to host international UNOOSA project office

  

  Dubai / WAM The UAE Space Agency and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) held a digital signing ceremony on Monday to discuss the creation of an international UNOOSA project office in Abu Dhabi. The meeting comes in an effort to increase collaboration on the long-term sustainability of space activities and promote the use of space for ...

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• 15 June

  Extraction Oil & Gas files bankruptcy amid slump

  

  Bloomberg Extraction Oil & Gas Inc filed for bankruptcy with plans to hand ownership to its creditors, becoming the latest producer to succumb to the energy industry’s slump. Some of Extraction’s noteholders agreed to swap unsecured debt for equity, according to a statement. The Denver-based company sought court protection in Delaware after skipping a May 15 interest payment on its ...

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• 15 June

  South Africa begins new nuclear plan

  

  Bloomberg South Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy took another step towards building a new nuclear-power program. The department issued a request for information for 2,500 megawatts of capacity, the ministry said in a statement. Submissions will close on September 15. “This will enable the department to gain insight into the cost of the program, possible ownership structures, cost ...

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• 15 June

  All about Joe Biden, China and cheerfulness

  

  Dwight Eisenhower’s cultured despisers, whose number was less impressive than the number of electoral votes Eisenhower reaped (899 of a possible 1,062), complained that his grin was his political philosophy. Ronald Reagan, who remained a Democrat for 10 years after he cast his first Republican presidential vote, for Eisenhower in 1952 (Reagan later won 1,014 of a possible 1,076 electoral ...

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• 15 June

  Virus is having impact on cancer care

  

  It has been a while since I thought back to that week in 2012 when I received news that three close family members had been diagnosed with cancer — two in my household. Newly published figures on how Covid-19 has delayed cancer referrals and treatments brought the memory back. I’m grateful those cases didn’t arise in the middle of a ...

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• 15 June

  Voting is essential in US. It is also overrated

  Protests across America have prompted discussion about the value of different types of political action. There is even debate about how useful voting is. Unfortunately, our political culture and (mostly non-existent) civics education do a really poor job of explaining the role of voting in the US and how it relates to democracy. Our political culture envisions voting as the ...

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