April, 2017

• 29 April

  DHA cancels predated sick leave

    DUBAI / WAM The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) on Sunday announced that predated sick leave of three consecutive days or more will no longer be issued, which means sick leave can only be given on the day patients visit medical facilities and not on previous days. The DHA urged physicians and others personnel at public and private medical facilities ...

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• 29 April

  ‘DLD Talk’ launched to improve operations and efficiency

  

    Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Land Department (DLD) recently launched a new specialised reading and strategic innovative thinking initiative under the title ‘DLD Talk’ that comes in line with the department’s ongoing efforts to develop its employees and motivate them to improve their operations and customer services. His Excellency Sultan Butti bin Mejren, Director General of Dubai Land Department, ...

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• 29 April

  MBRSG hosts AMCT’s inaugural meet

    Dubai / WAM The Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government (MBRSG) hosted the inaugural meeting of the UAE Association for Management Consultants and Trainers (AMCT) on its premises in Dubai. The newly established Dubai-based public interest organisation serves as an umbrella entity for management consultants and trainers across the UAE. Licensed by the Ministry of Community Development, AMCT aims ...

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• 29 April

  North Korea tests missile as Tillerson calls for sanctions

  

    Bloomberg North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile just hours after US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson mounted an effort at the United Nations to rally pressure against Kim Jong Un’s regime. The missile was fired at 5:30 a.m. on Saturday local time from northeast of Pyongyang and appears to have failed, according to a text message from South Korea’s ...

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• 29 April

  Turkey shuts Wikipedia as opposition cries censorship

    Bloomberg The Turkish government agency in charge of internet technologies blocked access to Wikipedia on Saturday, without giving a specific reason for the decision. The ban was imposed after “technical analysis and legal consideration,” the Information and Communication Technologies Authority said, without citing any violation of Turkish law. The agency didn’t respond to calls placed outside regular business hours. ...

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• 29 April

  Brazil roiled by general strike over government reform plan

    Boomberg Millions of Brazilians were stranded without public transport and faced shuttered banks and schools as labor unions staged a nationwide strike against President Michel Temer’s reform agenda. Groups of protesters clashed with police in Brazil’s major cities as buses, commuter trains and metro lines ground to a halt. Access roads to airports in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo ...

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• 29 April

  Risks of firms learning how consumers think

  

    In recent decades, psychologists and economists have produced a flood of new findings about how human beings think and act. Those findings offer compelling lessons about how to change people’s behaviour. Governments have taken notice — and so has the private sector. There are terrific opportunities here, but also real risks. Behavioral scientists have established, for example, that people ...

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• 29 April

  Draghi’s right to keep his foot on the gas

  

    Since becoming president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi has rarely looked as relaxed as he did in Thursday’s press conference. It’s not hard to see why: The euro-zone economy is gathering speed, confidence is soaring, and unemployment is tumbling. The recovery is also spreading across the region, reducing the risk that some countries may need a different ...

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• 29 April

  Microsoft’s black box magic works on investors

  

    Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella isn’t one for straightforward communications. On Thursday night, when analysts plied him with politely worded questions about the change in Microsoft’s business model, they were treated to classic bits of cryptic wisdom such as this one. To me, that’s why Azure is pretty strategic for us, not just for the attachment of high-level ...

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• 29 April

  Goldman Sachs to move UK staff on Brexit in 2018

  

    Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. plans to start moving London-based staff and operations to new or expanded offices inside the European Union next year, as it prepares for the UK to lose easy access to the single market after Brexit, the firm’s co-head of investment banking said. The bank will relocate client-facing staff to various EU cities including Madrid, ...

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