News Desk ABU DHABI: Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, is introducing COVID-19 global wellness insurance cover as part of Etihad Wellness, the airlines new health and hygiene programme. Guests who are diagnosed with COVID-19 during their trip won’t have to worry about medical expenses or quarantine costs when they fly with Etihad. Duncan Bureau, Senior Vice President …

News Desk DUBAI: Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry has announced that 76% of construction work on its headquarters extension has been completed, with the new state-of-the-art building on track to be ready by early 2021. The first phase of the project will see the structure completed by the end of September 2020. During the second and final phase, solar …

By Rafiq Vayani DUBAI: Emirates reveals that is has returned over AED 5 billion (US$ 1.4 billion) in COVID-19 related travel refunds to date, making strong and steady progress on its commitment to customers to complete pending refunds. More than 1.4 million refunds requests have been completed since March, representing 90% of the airline’s backlog. This includes all requests received from customers around the world up …

RIGA: Latvian airline airBaltic announces that as of today it resumes flights between Riga and nine additional destinations. In total, airBaltic now connects Riga with 35 destinations across Europe. Martin Gauss, CEO of airBaltic: “We welcome the decision of the Latvian government to ease the travel restrictions in place, while maintaining safety and health of the public as its top priority. It enables us to perform a …

DUBAI: ILife Digital, A developer for innovative technologies today announced the launch of MISA – a next-generation social family robot, which will be available in the UAE from October 20, 2020. Responds to its name ‘Hey Misa’ is first-of-its-kind, making a perfect addition to any household as it is uniquely designed to handle almost everything – this includes play/teach children, …

News Desk ABU DHABI: Dr. Hang Dai, Assistant Professor in the Computer Vision department at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), the world’s first graduate-level, research-based artificial intelligence (AI) university, achieved first and second place in the Commands 4 Autonomous Vehicles (C4AV) Workshop Challenge, part of the recently-held 2020 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2020), one of the …

By Rafiq Vayani DUBAI: In the presence of HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), and Peng Xiao, CEO of Group 42, Digital DEWA – the digital arm of DEWA, announced a strategic partnership with Group 42 (G42), an Abu Dhabi based leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud computing company. The signing …

News Desk ABU DHABI: Etisalat today announced that the all-new Samsung Galaxy Note20 and Galaxy Note20 Ultra are now available for all customers in the UAE. Developed with the new normal in mind to meet the needs of consumers and complement their dynamic lifestyles, the Galaxy Note20 and Galaxy Note20 Ultra are innovative devices that empower users to integrate all aspects related …

News Desk CAIRO: The Children’s Cancer Hospital 57357 and Enova have decided to extend their partnership. After a year of a strong fruitful cooperation, the Hospital Management has selected Enova to also operate and maintain the Intensive and Critical Care (ICC) building of Hospital 57357. This 11-floor building adds 30 more hospital beds to Enova’s project scope. The Enova teams …

LONDON: British Airways’ award-winning on board magazine, High Life, is moving online to ba.com and will offer access to content for customers before, during and after a flight. Created with publishing house, Cedar, the magazine will also include a new section for Business Life which will replace the current on-board paper versions of both publications.   Each issue will include monthly audio stories, photo experiences and live …