President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya has called on China to rebalance an increasingly skewed trade relationship between Africa and the rising superpower, arguing that Beijing must do more to tackle a widening trade deficit. Africa’s trade balance with China has moved decisively into deficit due to a fall in the price of many African commodities, such as oil, copper, iron ore and cocoa. In 2015, the most […]
DUBAI // The Ministry of Education published a calendar for next academic year giving public school pupils in Dubai and the Northern Emirates a four-week winter break, while teachers will have two. The new school year will begin September 3 for teachers and September 10 for pupils. The winter break will begin December 17 for both pupils and teachers, and the second term will not resume until […]
Warning: Contains spoilers for Stephen King’s novel It (and possibly spoilers for the upcoming film adaptation, too). For rampant Stephen King fans like myself, 2017 is set to be a year of glorious, clown-filled happiness. We now have two trailers for Andrés Muschietti’s upcoming adaption of It, and so far things are looking promising. We’ve seen the iconic opening sequence with Georgie chasing his paper boat through […]
Aldar Properties has appointed Trojan General Contracting as the main contractor for the first three precincts of Yas Acres, its flagship development on Yas Island. Trojan General Contracting will mobilise on site immediately as it works on all infrastructure, 652 villas and townhouses, the golf course, golf club house, mosque, retail and community clubs, Aldar said in a statement. This follows the recent completion of the early […]
PARIS French President-elect Emmanuel Macron appointed Alexis Kohler on Sunday as secretary general of the Elysee palace, the top administrative role among the presidential staff. Kohler, a 44-year old graduate of France’s elite ENA administrative school, was Macron’s chief of staff when the incoming president was economy minister and has worked for the Treasury. Philippe Etienne, a 61-year old former ambassador to Berlin and also an ENA […]
Under the patronage of the Minister of Education and Higher Education HE Dr. Mohammad AL Fares Best Student Company of the year 2017′ went to” Youth Creation” for the University category and” Agrivage” for the High School category 13 May 2017 Kuwait – Under the patronage of the Minister of Education and Higher Education, HE Dr. Mohammad Al Fares, INJAZ-Kuwait successfully concluded its annual Company Program […]
Obesity rates have doubled since 1980. More than 600 million people are classified as obese, and 41 million of them are children under the age of 5, according to the World Health Organization. In the UAE, almost 40 per cent of children are obese, prompting some experts to warn of an epidemic. This rise in childhood obesity – and the related diseases it causes that can affect […]
State-owned utility Qatar General Water & Electricity Corporation (Kahramaa) has awarded Siemens its largest contract to-date in Qatar for the expansion of the country’s power transmission network. As part of the deal, valued at QR3.1 billion ($851 million), Siemens will deliver 35 turnkey super and primary substations for phase 13 of the Qatar Power Transmission System Expansion project. This marks a significant milestone for Siemens, which has […]
Editor’s note: This is the latest in a series of articles that highlight digital tools for journalists. You can read the others here. Got a tool we should talk about? Let Ren know! Journalists are expected to juggle several different skills nowadays. This week’s tool, as my colleague Ren LaForme explains, offers an easy and free way to do more. You found a big hit last week, […]
By Jeremy Wagstaff | SINGAPORE SINGAPORE Some hospitals, schools and universities in Asia were hit by a global cyber attack which infected tens of thousands of computers in Europe and the United States, but officials and researchers said the extent of any damage may not yet be known. China’s official news agency Xinhua said secondary schools and universities were hit, but did not say how many or […]
ABU DHABI // Confetti rained over Kareem Hanafieh and his teammates as they stood on the first-place podium hoisting their trophy in the air. Winning a model racing car challenge came as a surprise for the Al Yasmina School pupils following a long day of competitions against their peers at Yas Marina Circuit on Saturday in the Formula Ethara competition. “I’m feeling on top of the world […]
UAE residents, many of whom face a long commute each day, turn to a tried and tested wake-up option to supplement their morning coffee. It features a solid base of upbeat tunes, a dash of local news, a spoonful of friendly banter and a sprinkling of competitions – which together make up the potent concoction we call breakfast radio. For many listeners, it is what makes the […]
Teen drinking has dropped in the last two decades, shows the latest report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The study, featured in May 12 issue of the CDC journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, revealed only one in three high schoolers reported drinking at least one drink per month in 2015, rounding up the total of teenage drinkers at just 32.8 percent. By […]
Alma Mahler was described by one Viennese contemporary, Siegfried Lipiner, as “spiteful, vain and overbearing”. The philosopher Theodor Adorno called her a “monster”. And Marietta Torberg, the wife of writer Friedrich Torberg, said she was “a grande dame and, at the same time, a cesspool”. This is largely how history remembers Mahler, the beautiful, intelligent wife of composer Gustav Mahler. Her life spanned two world wars, taking […]
If you are an investor wanting a safe, unexciting asset to make a bit of money, avoid South Africa’s rand. It is not that you cannot make money trading the currency. You very much can, and you might make it big and quickly. The problem is you can also lose much more than you gain and at a frightening pace. To play the rand, investors need not […]
DUBAI // Parents and psychologists have urged schools to develop a clear policy on bullying and to enforce it. Too many schools have turned a blind eye to the problem that affects as many as a third of the 1 million pupils in the UAE, parents said. Although schools have their individual approach to tackling bullying, some principals have been evading concerned parents. “Every time I want […]
The three beefy men sharing a laugh looked like old friends, not geopolitical adversaries. A smiling Donald Trump welcomed Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and its US ambassador Sergey Kislyak to the Oval Office on Wednesday, just a day after the president had fired the man investigating Moscow’s role in helping him enter the White House. The extraordinary scene was just the latest sign that Mr Trump […]
Nearly 50 student teams from middle and high schools, colleges and universities in 22 states demonstrated advanced rocketry and engineering skills in NASA’s 2017 Student Launch challenge. Teams spent eight months building and testing rockets designed to fly to an altitude of one mile, deploy an automated parachute system, and safely land for reuse. Source link
Transitioning from college to the workplace can be daunting, but not so for Sara Alahbabi, who, with a major in visual arts, opened an art gallery in Abu Dhabi earlier this month. Located in The Galleria on Al Maryah Island, Novus Art Gallery showcases unique pieces from the likes of French sculptor Richard Orlinski and Italian mixed-media painter Marco Angelini. “The gallery houses around 30 pieces,” Alahbabi […]
High schoolers who are extroverted, mature, highly intelligent, or interested in arts and sciences have a fighting chance against the robots and computers that will steal jobs in the future. A new study finds that people with certain personality traits are more likely to choose jobs that won’t be automated in the future . Job preference is especially important now, since economists estimate that 47 percent of […]
ABU DHABI // A group of university students in Abu Dhabi is helping Pakistani community school pupils whose families are struggling to pay for their education. It was reported earlier this month that 175 Pakistani children had been taken out of classes because their school fees had not been paid, and were expected to miss their final exams. The Pakistan Association Dubai said that Dh800,000 was need […]
May 12, 2017 IMPHAL, India – Fifteen seconds into the opening match of the 10th Manipur International Polo Tournament, after a long and feverish drumming performance, after the Manipur state chief minister had been properly honored with gifts and praise, after mounted players had paraded around the Mapal Kangjeibung polo ground with country flags held high, the home team scored on the Australians. It was a bright […]
At the end of April, Dubai added yet another acquisition to its steadily growing list of attributes. No longer just a city, an emirate, a tourist destination or even home to the world’s tallest building, the city now also has its own official typeface, the Dubai font. The product of a two-year partnership between the Dubai Executive Council, the computer giant Microsoft and Monotype, the owner of […]
In 2005, when Alan Murray was rising through the ranks at The Wall Street Journal, he ponied up for an executive education program at Stanford. The cost? Around $45,000, back then. The length of the program? A few weeks. The whole experience left him thinking these programs were ripe for disruption from a competitor who could do it better and cheaper. “Businesses spend a lot of money […]
