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Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (Adek) has formally inaugurated the all-new Al Karamah Training Institute (AKTI), a tailored education centre providing the Students of Determination in the emirate with an increasing level of independence and access to vocational training in eight main areas of specialisation. The institute was officially opened during a tour ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden welcomed Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to the White House for conversations centred on a growing concern for both leaders: what to do about China. Suga said he and Biden agreed to pursue collaboration on climate change, Covid-19 and the global shortage of semiconductors. But China’s increasingly assertive role in the region loomed large in the ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi School of Government (ADSG) and the Civil Service College of Singapore (CSC), the agency specialised for training, learning, and staff development of the country’s public sector, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, fostering an ongoing exchange of knowledge in the fields of public sector leadership, governance, public administration and management. The CSC is ...

Dubai / WAM Enoc group has announced the opening of two new service stations in Sharjah, bringing the total number of Enoc’s service stations to seven in Sharjah and 152 across the UAE. Located in Muzairah and Homa in Sharjah, the service stations are part of the 12 stations scheduled for completion in Sharjah by the end of the year ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Ataya, since its launch in 2012, has become a hallmark in the field of social and humanitarian work in the UAE and the world, making tangible differences in the lives of many. Now in its 10th year, Ataya, meaning ‘giving’ in Arabic, will be held as an online shopping destination during the Holy Month of Ramadan ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Economy (MoE) revealed that the total number of commercial agencies registered in the UAE markets across various sectors reached 5,944 by the end of last year. In addition to the 348 new agencies registered during 2020, 65 new agencies were registered during the first quarter of this year. The ministry emphasised that it ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention, MoHAP, announced that it conducted 256,181 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement on Wednesday, the ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the necessary ...

Bloomberg China criticised the US for sending a group of former officials to Taiwan, saying the move will only add to mounting tensions. Two former deputy secretaries of state, Richard Armitage and James Steinberg, and former Senator Christopher Dodd arrived in Taipei on Wednesday as part of a White House delegation marking the 42nd anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act, ...

Bloomberg The US federal budget deficit more than doubled to a record in the first half of the fiscal year amid a fresh wave of stimulus payments to cushion Americans from the persistent coronavirus pandemic. The deficit last month was $659.6 billion, the third-largest on record and biggest since last June, swelling the total from October to March to $1.71 ...

Bloomberg The European Union (EU) is set to lay out its blueprint to raise nearly $1 trillion of debt over five years as it seeks to fund its recovery from coronavirus pandemic. The bloc is aiming to issue the first debt under its NextGenerationEU stimulus in June and will use a “state of the art” platform to begin selling bonds ...