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By Edmund Smith-Asante Emirates passengers can now preorder their meals 14 days before their flight International airline, Emirates, has taken the first steps in an innovative initiative of meal preordering, whereby customers will be able to preselect their hot main meal between 14 days and 24 hours in advance of their flight. This is to ensure that passengers get their preferred meal choice every time, as well as help to reduce food wastage. The meal preordering adds to the convenience of digitally enabled journeys that Emirates passengers enjoy, as well as website check-in and app check-in, the option of digital boarding passes and itinerary management.   A statement from the airline on July 19 indicated that the initiative will be rolled out from July 25 onwards in Business Class, on all flights between Dubai and London Heathrow, London Gatwick, and London Stansted. This innovation adds more benefits to the Emirates customer experience, improving time management and ad...

The Emirates Ghana Team receiving the award  from Khalifa Yousif Alzaabi, the UAE Ambassador to Ghana

  By Edmund Smith-Asante Multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation, Pfizer, has held a virtual media roundtable for over 40 journalists from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon and Senegal, to climax this year’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The zoom meeting held last Friday, October 28, urged the public to take early detection seriously and help friends and families by encouraging regular self-examination and conversations with their doctors. Healthcare practitioners were also encouraged to have open conversations and support patients. While in 2020 the World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, Global Cancer Observatory reported 4,482 and 28,380 new cases of breast cancer for Ghana and Nigeria respectively, the WHO’s Cancer Country Profile of Ghana 2020, said breast cancer was the number one cancer among women in the country, with an incidence of 20.4 per cent and a relatively high mortality rate. Since 2000 Ghana’s breast canc...

Smart grab The Vice President of Dongfang Electric International Corporation (DEC), Mr Hu Weidong, has stated that although a contract has been signed with the Ghana Railway Company for upgrading of the Western Railway Line delays in processing the documents was stalling the project. By Edmund Smith-Asante, CHENGDU, CHINA Mr. Hu Weidong, Vice President of Dongfang Electric International Corporation (DEC) addressing the  journalists. PICTURE BY EDMUND SMITH-ASANTE A contract signed between the Ghana Railway Company and the Dongfang Electric International Corporation (DEC) of China for an upgrade of the Western Railway Line has gone missing in the throes of bureaucracy.

By Edmund Smith-Asante, BEIJING The Outside Broadcast (OB) van. One of two outside broadcast vans which is part of a 10-year agreement between StarTimes Communications Group and the Ghana Football Association (GFA) is ready for delivery to Ghana.

Smart grab: Digital TV operator, StarTimes Communication Network Technology Group and UNAIDS have formally established a partnership to reduce the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa, with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Beijing. UNAIDS Executive Director, Mr Michel Sidibé  and StarTimes President, Mr Pang exchange documents after signing. By Edmund Smith-Asante, BEIJING UNAIDS, the United Nations agency responsible for the control of HIV/AIDS and the StarTimes Communication Network Technology Group have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to stop the spread of the epidemic by 2030.