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DUBAI / WAM Dubai Judicial Institute (DJI) announced its 2020 statistical report of its achievements, most prominently the organisation of 67 training programmes, divided into 44 specialised programmes and 18 programmes for the general public. Justice Dr Jamal Al Sumaiti, Director General of DJI, said, “In line with our national responsibility, we spared no effort to achieve our vision of ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) is organising the virtual Agile Governance Global Summit on February 1 to share the best global experiences in good governance and corporate agility between the public and private sectors in the UAE and abroad. “Organising the Agile Governance Global Summit is part of our efforts to achieve the vision of His ...

DUBAI / WAM Enoc group launched a dedicated aviation portal, https://myfuel.enoc.com that includes a host of functional benefits to enhance customer and B2B relations. The new portal includes tools and capabilities that will enable the initiation of nominations (online orders), 24/7 customer dashboard access to account statements and fuel price, as well as the around the clock support for customers ...

For more than 50 years, the economics profession has sought to increase the number of Black people and women in its ranks. But one event might achieve as much for the intersection of those groups — Black women — as any of the best-intentioned initiatives: the emergence of Kamala Harris as vice president of these fractured United States. When Harris ...

As the global car industry ramps up pressure on Taiwan to produce more semiconductors, the world would do well to look at the next step in the supply chain, where Chinese factories have the task of assembling those auto electronics they so desperately need. It’s a little simplistic to blame the industry’s woes on an inability by some suppliers to ...

For the first time since the financial crisis, UBS Group AG beat all of its targets. Delivering its highest income in a decade — $6.6 billion — the world’s largest wealth manager finally proved it can expand while being as profitable as it has long promised investors. But the asset bubble that’s made the rich even richer is an aberration ...

It’s the most important number you’ve never heard of, and President Joe Biden is about to change it as he resets US environmental policy. It’s the social cost of carbon, a figure that helps determine the stringency of federal regulations governing cars, trucks, power plants, refrigerators, microwave ovens, washing machines, vending machines and much more. The social cost of carbon ...

Bloomberg They’re essential workers performing critical safety work and have been assigned priority designation to receive the coronavirus vaccine. Yet tens of thousands of airport security screeners, air-traffic controllers and federal accident investigators who must report to work in spite of the virus ravaging the US haven’t gotten the shot and aren’t sure how and when they will. “It’s incredibly ...

Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co is offering another round of voluntary leave as staffing levels remain too high for a flight schedule hammered by the coronavirus pandemic. Time off for employees accepting the offer begins on March 1, when thousands of workers are set to return from six-month leaves awarded last year, Southwest said. Already, 791 pilots have agreed to take ...

Bloomberg The UK government will introduce a limited hotel quarantine system for passengers arriving from the highest-risk countries, according to a person familiar with the matter. The move is aimed at curbing the spread of new variants of coronavirus that could prove resistant to vaccines, but is expected to apply to arrivals from countries with new forms of the virus, ...