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Bloomberg The US is preparing to sanction at least a dozen more Chinese officials over their role in the recent disqualification of Hong Kong legislators, according to two people familiar with the plans. The latest round of sanctions over Hong Kong was expected to be rolled out on Monday, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Chaired by HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, the Ministerial Development Council has confirmed that the UAE government is keen to strengthen the non-oil sectors by encouraging innovation, updating legislation and regulatory frameworks, and encouraging sectors with high added value in a way that advances business environment ...

DUBAI / WAM The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) in collaboration with Smart Dubai launched on Sunday at the 40th Gitex Technology Week, a state-of-the-art fully automated paperless Drugs and Medical Supplies Management System known as Tarmeez making it the first government entity in the region to implement the international standard. During the launch ceremony, Humaid Al Qutami, Director General of ...

DUBAI / WAM The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (Mohre) announced that it will hold more on-site and virtual meetings with Emirati citizens working for private sector companies at their workplaces, to monitor their situations. The visits are part of the work of a committee formed by the ministry in March 2020 to support the employment stability of UAE ...

DUBAI / WAM HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, has directed all district cooling companies to reduce the fuel surcharge for electricity from 6.5 to 5 fils for kilowatt hour and for water from 0.6 to 0.4 fils for Imperial Gallon, and to fully implement this reduction in their customers’ bills ...

Bloomberg The Finance Ministry of the world’s biggest energy exporter has started preparing for the possibility of lower budget revenues in case global oil demand declines sooner than expected. “The peak of consumption may have already passed,” Deputy Finance Minister Vladimir Kolychev said in an interview in Moscow. “The risk is rising in the longer term” that hydrocarbon revenues could ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump blasted Georgia’s elections as corrupt but urged his supporters to vote for two GOP senators facing re-election anyway, keeping up attacks that party leaders worry could backfire and end their control of the Senate. At a rally in Valdosta, Georgia, Trump took aim at GOP Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger after complaining ...

Bloomberg UK and European Union negotiators were expected to resume trade talks on Sunday as both sides strive to patch up serious last-minute differences that are threatening to derail a deal. Officials said the next 48 hours would be crucial after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen spoke by telephone and agreed to ...

Bloomberg A deadline set by the Trump administration for the forced sale of TikTok’s US assets will come and go on Friday without a final deal, according to people familiar with the discussions. While the deadline has been extended multiple times, TikTok isn’t expected to receive a new one, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the ...

Bloomberg The UK is gearing up to deploy its first Covid-19 vaccine with plans to provide the shot at more than 1,000 centres across the country over the coming weeks with the first jab expected to be given on Tuesday. The vaccine, created by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE, has arrived at secure locations in the UK from Belgium, the ...