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  DUBAI / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) organised a virtual awareness day for contractors on health and safety. This is part of Dewa’s commitment to provide a safe and healthy work environment according to the highest international standards, for its employees and employees of its partners. The day featured presentations on the latest health and safety procedures ...

  DUBAI / WAM Emirates Group Security (EGS), one of the leading aviation security practitioners and learning and development providers in the region, has signed an agreement with the University of Arizona (UA), located in Tucson, Arizona, USA, to promote collaboration in tertiary education and research on general and security-specific subjects from certificate to postgraduate courses. This new dimension comes ...

  Amsterdam’s historical significance for global capitalism is hard to overstate. It created the stock market, the tulip bubble and a mega-corporation so big it had its own money, army and colony. Economists later wondered if there was something almost spiritual in the way the Dutch took to money. That fascination ebbed as empires fell and the era of global ...

Like 2021, next year will be a pivotal one for Hong Kong and China. For the former British colony, the template appears set: The system has been remade to entrench Beijing’s control, freedoms that were guaranteed under “one country, two systems” have been eroded, hundreds are in prison for political offenses, and tens of thousands of people who can are ...

  Imagine this: You test positive for Covid-19 and begin self-isolating at home. It’s Day Two of quarantine and you’re happier than Kevin McCallister in “Home Alone.” You’ve already completed a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle and binged the entire second season of “Emily in Paris” on Netflix. Everything is just peachy — until some authorities in hazmat suits barge in on ...

  In mid-1989, shortly before the collapse of the USSR, an outgoing Rand Corporation Soviet-watcher named Francis Fukuyama captivated the chattering classes with an essay predicting “The End of History.” Short version: The impending demise of communism made the universal triumph of liberal democracy all but inevitable. To borrow from what Wordsworth said about the French Revolution, that would have ...

  Bloomberg Talks are underway between the US and China on possible changes to apparent new aircraft-cleaning requirements that prompted a Delta Air Lines Inc flight to turn back to Seattle and that could upend air travel into the Asian nation. The discussions were confirmed on Tuesday by a State Department official who spoke on condition of anonymity. China’s new ...

  Bloomberg Apple Inc put Foxconn Technology Group’s factory in southern India on probation following worker protests and an investigation that revealed substandard living conditions. Foxconn, which uses the facility to assemble iPhones among other gadgets, apologized for the lapses in health standards and pledged to revamp its management and operations in the country. The factory, located in Sriperumbudur on ...

  Bloomberg US freight forwarder Flexport Inc will help fly three planes loaded with potatoes to Japan, where a shortage of spuds has caused McDonald’s in the country to ration french fries. “Flexport just contracted to fly three 747 loads of potatoes to Japan to help with the French fry shortage,” Chief Executive Officer Ryan Petersen said in a tweet, ...

  Bloomberg The US merchandise-trade deficit widened to a record in November as imports surged to an all-time high. The gap increased to $97.8 billion last month from a revised $83.2 billion in October, according to Commerce Department data released on Wednesday. The figure exceeded all estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists. The data aren’t adjusted for inflation. The ...