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  ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC), part of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority to enrich Arabic content and boost the production of children’s literature. The agreement aims to strengthen collaboration between the two ...

  Dubai / Gulf Time Mensa Technologies, a leading company in the technology industry based in Dubai, has announced the launch of their game “Mensa Card” which consists of many different card games that will allow friends and individuals to play games virtually using video calls in the game. Dr Shasha Tan, founder and partner at Mensa Technology said: “We ...

  LONDON / WAM Dr Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi, Chairman of the Defence, Interior and Foreign Affairs Committee in the UAE Federal National Council, has met with Dr Liam Fox, a member of the British Parliament and Chair of UK Abraham Accords Group, at the British Parliament. Several FNC members attended the meeting. During the meeting, they discussed joint parliamentary ...

  DUBAI / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has confirmed that the current production capacity of Hassyan Power Complex reached 1,200 megawatts (MW), using the Independent Power Producer (IPP) model. A further 600 MW will be added in Q4 of 2022, and an additional 600 MW will be added by Q3 of 2023. This will raise the capacity ...

  Aluminum is the jack-of-all-trades of the metal industry: it’s everywhere, underpinning modern life, from an iPhone to a jetliner to a can of beer. For a long time, however, it was difficult to get excited about it. The metal is just dirt: bauxite, one of the most abundant elements on the Earth’s crust. And the bulls couldn’t count on ...

Life Insurance Corp of India was seeded by the government in New Delhi, but nourishing the sapling to a colossus with 39.6 trillion rupees ($525 billion) in assets under management — and more lives assured than Pakistan’s population — has fallen on generations of loyal customers. Which is why LIC’s upcoming initial public offering, India’s biggest ever share sale, raises ...

  Online brokers like Robinhood Markets Inc and crypto assets might get the headlines, but the Securities and Exchange Commission’s parallel effort to drag private-equity firms and hedge funds out of the shadows will have far more impact on far more lives. Private equity especially has exploded in power and reach in the past decade. That’s why SEC Chair Gary ...

  When, not if, has been the growing consensus on Boris Johnson’s departure as prime minister. He’s unpopular, untrusted and no longer seen as an authority — a man in office but only barely in power. His former aide and now arch-enemy Dominic Cummings has hinted that there are more damaging party pictures and other kompromat to emerge. And the ...

  Bloomberg Boeing Co said it’s not racing to resume deliveries of its 787 Dreamliner as the company played down the risk that customers waiting for the jet might switch to rival planemaker Airbus SE. Stan Deal, president and chief executive officer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said the company is in talks with all the affected airlines and indicated he ...

  Bloomberg JD Sports Fashion Plc was fined 4.3 million pounds ($5.8 million) after Britain’s merger watchdog said the retailer broke confidentiality rules during its vetoed bid for rival Footasylum. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said that the two sports retailers failed to put sufficient safeguards in place to avoid sharing commercially sensitive information. The CMA said that in ...