March, 2019

• 2 March

  IGCF to reveal 2019 agenda tomorrow

  Sharjah / Emirates Business The Sharjah International Government Communication Centre (IGCC), a subsidiary of the Sharjah Government Media Bureau (SGMB), will host an interactive media gathering on March 4, to reveal the agenda of the eighth edition of the International Government Communication Forum (IGCF 2019) which will be held on March 20-21. The media gathering will be held at Al ...

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• 2 March

  Sheikha Fatima Campaign treats thousands in Egypt

  

  CAIRO / WAM The Sheikha Fatima Global Humanitarian Campaign has provided free medical treatment to thousands of women, children and elderly people in Egyptian villages, under the slogan, ‘Following in the Footsteps of Zayed,’ and as part of the ‘We Are All Our Mother Fatima’ programme. The campaign has stepped up efforts, attracting and qualifying Emirati and Egyptian doctors to ...

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• 2 March

  SME sector to contribute 53% to UAE’s GDP in 2019

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The 9th UAE Conference on Small and Medium Enterprises & Innovation was held in Dubai in the presence of Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy, and Chairman of the UAE SME Council. Al Mansouri emphasised that the UAE’s progress in accelerating the establishment of a robust SME sector according to highest standards stands out ...

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• 2 March

  ERC distributes 160 tonnes of foodstuffs in Hadramaut, Lahej

  

  HAJAR / WAM Up to 14,000 eligible Yemenis have benefitted from 2,000 baskets holding 160 tonnes of foodstuffs that have been distributed by the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) among underprivileged households in the Hajar district in Hadramaut Governorate, as well as in Al Modharaba and Raas Al Aara districts in Lahej. The new aid consignment falls within the continuing efforts ...

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• 2 March

  Facing jail in Caracas, Guaido travels across South America

  

  Bloomberg Juan Guaido’s first stop after he skipped out of Venezuela last week was Colombia. But after he failed to push food and medicine across the borders to hasten the end of autocratic President Nicolas Maduro’s rule, he headed to Brazil. Now, he’s in Argentina following meetings in Paraguay, and is expected to head to Ecuador on Saturday to be ...

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• 2 March

  Australian ministers quit as election looms

  

  Bloomberg Pressure built on Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison after a second lawmaker quit in as many days, just weeks ahead of an upcoming national election. Defense Minister Christopher Pyne said on Saturday that he will retire at the election. Steven Ciobo, in charge of the defense industry portfolio, also said that he won’t re-contest his seat. Ciobo’s resignation makes ...

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• 2 March

  Trump’s base clings tight despite rising tide of troubles

  

  Bloomberg Donald Trump had a rough week. His former lawyer told a House committee that the president is a cheat and a racist who has committed fraud, hours before Trump returned empty-handed from a high-stakes summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un in Hanoi. Yet just down the Potomac River from Washington, at an annual gathering of influential conservatives, none of ...

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• 2 March

  Orban’s political alliance nears end of road

  

  Bloomberg Europe’s main political family moved closer to a showdown with its most troublesome member, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, over his increasingly euroskeptic behavior. The European Union’s Christian Democrats sent two sets of warnings to Orban and his Fidesz party, signaling a greater determination to confront populist forces in the run-up to EU legislative elections in May. Manfred Weber, ...

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• 2 March

  Yellow Vests protests not comprehensible: Macron

  Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron said that grassroots Yellow Vests protests are no longer comprehensible and that “the country needs a return to calm.” “I hope that the weeks to come will show a decline” in the Yellow Vests movement, Macron said in Bordeaux. He spoke during a session that was part of a series of national public debates he ...

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• 2 March

  Promise of cheapest wind power hits snag in India

  

  Bloomberg India has drawn global attention since it started awarding wind power projects at record-low tariffs, spurring optimism that renewable energy could supplant the nation’s abundant coal resources in electricity generation. But about half of the more than one gigawatt of capacity awarded in the country’s first auctions in 2017 are incomplete, almost five months after their commissioning deadline, according ...

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