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Dubai / WAM Through its EV Green Charger initiative, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has provided over 8,800 megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity to charge electric vehicles (EVs) in Dubai since 2015. This has helped EV users to travel approximately 58 million kilometres in eco-friendly vehicles and experience a 73% reduction in refuelling costs. Since 2015, Dubai has witnessed a ...

UMM AL QAIWAIN / WAM National Bank of Umm Al-Qaiwain (NBQ) has posted a net profit of AED96.57 million for the three months of the year 2022, the bank said in a statement. Net profit has increased by 26.26% compared to AED76.49 million for three months of previous year due to the improving external environment. Cost to income stood at ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The fourth edition of Abu Dhabi International Boat Show (Adibs) will be held from November 24-27. The event is held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Nahyan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation, and Chairman of Abu Dhabi Sports Council. ...

Associated British Foods Plc’s Primark is not the only European discounter winning over American shoppers. Research from footfall-analysis company Placer.ai shows that budget grocers Aldi Einkauf SE and German rival Lidl, part of Germany’s Schwarz Group, are gaining traction with US consumers too. This could accelerate further as inflation takes its toll on household spending. And that should worry the ...

Cranks are considered cranks for a reason. That is the lesson from Sri Lanka, which has halted payments of its foreign debt and warned that it may default. The country’s ruling dynasty — led by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother, Prime Minister (and former president) Mahinda Rajapaksa — have lost most of their cabinet and parliamentary majority. Earlier this ...

  Singapore’s finance minister, Lawrence Wong, has solidified his place as the front runner to succeed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. As the now-undisputed leader of a rising political class, the top job is his to lose. Just don’t expect the Lee era to end next month, or even next year. Wong’s ascent puts to rest a rare period of ...

  The political crisis that pitched Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan from office wasn’t just about the failure of his anti-corruption agenda and mismanagement of an economy where inflation running at nearly 13% has driven months of opposition protests. It’s also, as with so many of Pakistan’s political crises, about energy and exchange rates. For decades, heavy dependence on imported ...

  Bloomberg A natural gas pipeline in Texas leaked so much of the super-potent greenhouse gas methane in little more than an hour that by one estimate its climate impact was equivalent to the annual emissions from about 16,000 US cars. The leak came from a 16-inch (41-centimeter) pipe that’s a tiny part of a vast web of unregulated lines ...

  Bloomberg China has identified enough wind energy potential in Tibet to power the UK, Germany and France combined, and plans to further develop the region to help meet its ambitious climate targets. Tibet has enough sites with strong, steady wind to install 600 gigawatts of turbines, with another 420 gigawatts possible in parts of the plateau in neighboring regions ...

  Bloomberg Pakistan is cutting electricity to households and industry as the cash-strapped country can no longer afford to buy coal or natural gas from overseas to fuel its power plants. The South Asian nation is struggling to procure fuel from the spot market after prices of liquefied natural gas and coal surged to records last month as the war ...