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  ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in cooperation with Korea International Trade Association (Kita), organised a Business Roundtable between Emirati and Korean businesses operating in the renewable energy and green hydrogen sectors, in line with the ongoing Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2022. The business roundtable witnessed the attendance of Honorable Moon Jae-in, President ...

  Dubai / WAM The production capacity of the first project of the fifth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park has increased from 300 megawatts (MW) to 330MW, announced Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa). This results from using the latest solar photovoltaic bifacial technologies with Single Axis ...

  Dubai / WAM Breakbulk Middle East (BBME), the region’s largest breakbulk and project cargo event, will host the ‘Women in Breakbulk Breakfast, as part of its commitment to increase the female participation. The forum will feature top female executives, who will discuss ways to overcome challenges they face in the sector. They will also offer insights and tips to ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The eighth edition of EcoWaste 2022 Exhibition and Forum kicks off on Monday under the slogan “exploring future opportunities for waste management to achieve a circular economy”. EcoWaste 2022 will be held as part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week and organised with the strategic partnership of the Abu Dhabi Waste Management Centre (Tadweer). The exhibition ...

  DUBAI / WAM Djibouti celebrated its National Day at Expo 2020 with a visit from Prime Minister Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed and a performance by a Djiboutian folk group, including a series of traditional dances and folk songs, reflecting both Bedouin and city life. The Prime Minister was welcomed by Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and ...

  Dubai / Gulf Time Malaysia Healthcare, led by the Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council (MHTC), continues to pave the way as a leading healthcare travel industry provider during Expo 2020 Dubai. The Malaysian Pavilion was host to fruitful and productive B2B discussions between Malaysian players such as Thomson Hospital Kota Damansara, TMC Fertility and Women’s Specialists Centre, and healthcare representatives ...

  Bloomberg Russia has nothing to do with the energy crisis in Europe, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said, rejecting allegations from the International Energy Agency this week that it’s holding back supplies and driving up prices of natural gas. “Neither Russia nor our main exporter Gazprom have anything to do with this,” Novak told state television, according to the ...

  Bloomberg Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., which supplies almost all of South Africa’s power, will take two of the continent’s largest generating units offline this year for maintenance, increasing the risk of power cuts after the nation had record outages in 2021. The extended unavailability of the units with capacity of 920 megawatts each due to the “planned long outages ...

  As the world is grappling with the latest virus variant, China unveiled a sharpened version of the Made in China 2025 industrial policy blueprint. Previous iterations may have had nations like the US on edge, but this is the one to keep an eye on. State planners released a five-year smart manufacturing development plan in late December that aims ...

Two British retailers emerged as winners this Christmas: Tesco Plc and Marks & Spencer Group Plc. While that’s a far cry from disappointing results of holidays past, both face considerable challenges ahead with concerns about inflation eating into consumer spending power and a slowdown in demand. Tesco’s UK same-store sales in its fiscal third quarter rose 0.2%, slightly below analysts’ ...