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Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 368,242 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement on Sunday, the ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the necessary ...

Dubai / WAM Mai Dubai, a bottled water company fully owned by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa), has made a landmark milestone with the launch of the fastest bottled water production line in Asia, Oceania, and Africa (AOA) region. Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of Dewa, inaugurated Mai Dubai’s water line, which was completed in collaboration with ...

SHARJAH / WAM A new recreational labour park has been opened in Al Sajaa Industrial area of Sharjah. The project is in implementation of the development plan aimed at providing integrated services to achieve comfort and happiness in the community, and in line with the directives of HH Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler ...

Dubai / WAM The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MoCCAE) on Sunday announced that since the beginning of 2021 it has accredited 34 new slaughterhouses to export red and white meat, as well as chilled and frozen meat products, to the UAE. This increases the total number of accredited slaughterhouses outside the country to 186. Moreover, to guarantee the ...

The world reads current reports from Afghanistan with revulsion: the Taliban’s revenge against supporters of the former government and Western forces, bloody chaos at the Kabul airport, and renewed repression of women. Yet it is also plain that the victorious extremists themselves are daunted by the challenge of assuming administrative responsibility for a nation that is bankrupt without Western financial ...

Space races are supposed to be won in engineering labs or up in orbit. Thanks to Jeff Bezos, the next one might be won in a courtroom or regulator’s office. As Bezos’s companies fall behind Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the race to return humans to the moon and launch satellite-based broadband services, they’re increasingly resorting to politics and legal filings ...

Leaders of the top US industrial companies gathered virtually for the annual Morgan Stanley Laguna conference. Unsurprisingly, much of the discussion centered around the rising cost of raw materials, labor and logistics and the increasingly difficult challenge of getting enough supply to keep up with demand. “The inflation is unprecedented,” 3M Co Chief Financial Officer Monish Patolawala said at the ...

Europe has an energy problem, and it could get worse once winter grips the continent. Gas and electricity prices are soaring, windmills are standing idle for lack of wind and shuttered coal-fired power plants are being brought back into use. There are even suggestions to use diesel generators for private generation. But oil isn’t the solution to the continent’s energy ...

Bloomberg South Africa’s largest clothing retailer sees a successful Covid-19 vaccination rollout as key to reopening the economy and adding new stores, helping to address the world’s highest unemployment rate. “If we get people vaccinated, the economy can normalise quickly,” Pepkor Holdings Ltd CEO Leon Lourens said in an interview. “If the economy normalises, we can create jobs.” The government ...

Bloomberg Colombia plans to start the bidding process for the construction and modernisation of three airports in the fourth quarter as part of a larger $13 billion infrastructure plan. The expansion of the capacity of the airport that serves Cali, the nation’s third-largest city, as well as those of Buenaventura and Neiva, in western Colombia, have an estimated cost of ...