Новости за 17.06.2021

(MENAFN)Egypt aims to increase the state�s funding for green projects to 30 percent of its overall investment plan in the year of 2021/2022 and to increase it to 50 percent by 2024/2025. Green projects currently introduce 15 percent of the state�s investment plan in the current year 2020/2021, according to Sherif Daoud, deputy head of the Sustainable Development Unit at the Egyptian Ministry of Planning and Economic Development. Green projects focus on the transport, housing, and electricity sectors, Daoud further declared. Читать дальше...

(MENAFN)International brokerage firm Capex.com increased the amount of USD21 million in a new funding round, as interest in online trading and investment grows. The company further declared that the progress is going to be applied to inaugurate new products, in addition to for its growth plans in key markets around the world. Capex.com, that is the official trading partner of Juventus, currently operates four trading licenses; one of them is from the Abu Dhabi Global Market Financial Services Regulatory Authority. Читать дальше...

(MENAFN)Dubai�s Majid Al Futtaim that is running 21 Carrefour stores across nine cities in Saudi Arabia aims to increase its store network in the Kingdom by 2025. �Carrefour operates different store formats, as well as multiple online offerings to meet the growing needs of its diversified customer base. It currently operates 21 stores across nine cities in Saudi Arabia. This year, Majid Al Futtaim is working toward opening six new stores in the Kingdom, including three hypermarkets and three supermarkets... Читать дальше...

(MENAFN)Saudi Aramco�s entrepreneurship arm Wa�ed inaugurated its first roadshow event to fund the coming generation of Saudi entrepreneurs. Wa�ed stood at to SR100 million (USD27 million) at its disposal to hand out in loans and venture capital investments to commercially feasible ventures that would recover in the Kingdom�s economy. The Wa�ed entrepreneurship roadshow is going to hold a number of events in six Saudi cities from September to December, to encourage game-changing ideas that will offer new jobs. Читать дальше...

(MENAFN - The Peninsula) Riyadh: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ministerial council welcomed the results of the meeting of the Council of League of Arab States at the level of foreign ministers held in Doha on Tuesday, which affirmed that the water security of the Republic of Sudan and the Arab Republic of Egypt is an integral part of Arab national security, refusing any action or measure that would prejudice their rights in Nile waters. The final statement of the meeting of the 148th session... Читать дальше...

(MENAFN - The Peninsula) Doha: Speaker of the Shura Council H E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism at the United Nations H E Vladimir Voronkov officially inaugurated yesterday the Office of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Program on Parliamentary Participation in Preventing and Combating Terrorism. The office was opened in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding and the signed agreement between the Shura... Читать дальше...

(MENAFN - Gulf Times) CDNs don’t fail very often; when they do, the impact can be global Content delivery networks, or CDNs, normally, don’t make it to popular Internet jargon until they stop delivering. An across-the-world outage that lasted about an hour hit thousands of government, news, and social media websites on June 8. It took down sites including the New York Times, Bloomberg News, Reddit Inc, and even the UK government and the White House. High-traffic websites including, Amazon, CNN... Читать дальше...

(MENAFN - Gulf Times) For all its devastation, the Covid-19 crisis does have a silver lining: it has shone a spotlight on important policy lapses – beginning with the lack of social protection for the world’s two billion informal workers. But addressing this failure will require more than social programmes; it will also require governments to bridge the digital divide. During the pandemic, social programmes supporting the ''missing middle” – informal workers who are excluded from standard employment-linked... Читать дальше...

(MENAFN - Gulf Times) I was having a catch-up call with my sister this afternoon ‘What? You don’t know? How can you not have heard about it?’ She was referring to the celebrity bullying allegations that are all over the news. A number of A- list celebs have been opening up about how they were bullied by fellow A -list celebrities in the past, and how traumatised they were and still are all these years later. Once I hung up from my sister, I did a little search to find out what kind of bullying she was talking about. Читать дальше...

(MENAFN - Gulf Times) Art is a form of healing and recovery, and provides solace and therapy during times of stress. It helps safeguard mental and spiritual health, and reduces barriers between people, cultures and languages. Art has also been used to spark social change and increase awareness about destructive facets of economic development. Though the Covid-19 crisis has had a severe emotional and economic impact on the artistic community, artists are regrouping and reinventing themselves for the new normal. Читать дальше...