August, 2016

• 8 August

  Suitcase that doubles as motorized mini scooter

  

    Relaxnews It’s being pitched as the world’s first motorized, rideable carry-on smart luggage that can whisk tired fliers through the airport three times faster than old-fashioned walking. You could call the Modobag a scooter-slash-suitcase. Designed by Chicago entrepreneur Kevin O’Donnell and an engineer whose credits include professional race motorcycles at Daytona 200, the mobile suitcase features an electric motor, ...

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• 8 August

  Could the taxi of the future arrive before you call it?

    Bloomberg Ford seems to think so and is working with MIT in order to shuttle in a new form of smarter, on-demand mobility service that can predict where it needs to be at any given time, in order to best help people get around. From September the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Cambridge campus will become the testing ground for ...

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• 8 August

  Tourism ‘pollutes’ Sri Lankan beaches

  

    Mount Lavinia / AFP Tourists have flocked back to Sri Lanka’s palm-fringed beaches since a bloody civil war ended in 2009, but environmentalists warn unchecked development means some areas are now so polluted, swimming there is a health hazard. Sewage from thriving hotels and guesthouses pours, often untreated, out into the water polluting the sea and shore. Even the ...

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• 8 August

  Uruguay’s ‘enterprising’ prison

  

    Montevideo / AFP Alvaro Brusti had never worked in his life before he wound up behind bars for armed robbery. Now after five years inside, the 34-year-old is running his own company, in an unusual scheme at a Uruguayan jail. The Punta de Rieles prison east of the capital Montevideo looks like many other penitentiaries from the outside, with ...

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• 7 August

  Al Tayer Group donates ten ambulances to ERC

    DUBAI / WAM Al Tayer Group, a UAE-based business group, donated 10 Ford E-350 DRW ambulances to Emirates Red Crescent (ERC). The cut-away units were especially converted into ambulances by Horton Emergency Vehicles in Ohio, USA. Ahmed Al Tayer, Director of the Al Tayer Group, handed over the ambulances to Mohammed Abdullah Alhaj Al Zaroni, Manager of the Dubai ...

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• 7 August

  DED launches ‘IP Gateway’ for faster complaints redressal

  DUBAI / WAM The Commercial Compliance and Consumer Protection (CCCP) sector in the Department of Economic Development (DED) in Dubai announced the launch of an ‘Intellectual Property Gateway’ for receiving complaints on trademark infringement via the DED website. The gateway automates all procedures relating to intellectual property (IP) issues, starting from receiving complaints and opening files to receiving reports from ...

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• 7 August

  UAE congratulates Cote d’ivaoire President on Independence Day

    ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan sent a congratulatory cable to President of the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara, on the occasion of the country’s Independence Day. Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed ...

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• 7 August

  Dubai Municipality wins award

    Dubai / WAM Khalid Mohamed Sharif Al Awadhi, Executive Director of Food Safety Department at Dubai Municipality, has won the International Leadership Award for Food Protection 2016. He was honoured in St. Louis, Missouri, US, at the annual conference, in the presence of over 2, 000 participants, including food experts. The conference has been hosted by the Assembly for ...

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• 7 August

  India’s epic tax reform shows democracy isn’t dead

  

    Can messy, polarized democracies ever get anything done? Could real reformist laws ever be passed by legislatures obsessed with partisan point-scoring? Across the liberal-democratic world, it seems that obstructing legislation by any means necessary is now part of politics as usual. Partisan gamesmanship, increasingly, looks like a genuine threat to the legitimacy of legislatures — and of democracy itself. ...

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• 7 August

  Why you should thank Donald Trump!

  

    Pankaj Mishra Political life in the West, it is safe to say, has not witnessed a figure such as Donald Trump for decades. His attacks on the parents of Army Captain Humayun Khan, who died on duty in Iraq in 2004, is the latest jaw-dropping episode from his presidential campaign. But as he lurches toward what one hopes will ...

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