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Saudi Gazette
5 days ago
- Business
- Saudi Gazette
Saudi Arabia maintains top cybersecurity global ranking in 2025
Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — Saudi Arabia maintained its top global ranking in the Cybersecurity Index, according to the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook's cybersecurity indicator for 2025. The Yearbook is an annual report published by the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), based in Switzerland, on the competitiveness of nations. The yearbook benchmarks the performance of 63 countries based on 340 criteria measuring different facets of competitiveness. This top ranking is a direct reflection of the unwavering support and guidance provided to the Kingdom's cybersecurity sector by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman. Their vision propelled Saudi Arabia to achieve leading positions year after year across various international indicators. This includes the Kingdom's classification as Tier 1 – 'Role-modeling' in the Global Cybersecurity Index 2024, published by the UN specialized agency, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). This success is part of a broader series of achievements since the adoption of the leadership's insightful and proactive approach to establish a comprehensive cybersecurity sector. This holistic approach integrates both security and development dimensions, encompassing local and international levels. Dr. Musaed Al-Aiban, chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Cybersecurity Authority, affirmed that this achievement "adds to the series of achievements and successes scored by Saudi Arabia in all fields since the launch of the leadership's insightful, proactive vision to establish the cybersecurity sector, in a comprehensive manner, encompassing both security and development aspects, with all its local and international dimensions." He said that the cybersecurity system has witnessed significant development in record time since the establishment of the National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA) as the Saudi entity responsible for cybersecurity and the national authority for cybersecurity affairs and the establishment of the Saudi Information Technology Company (SITE) as its strategic and technical partner. "These are two fundamental pillars of the Saudi model for cybersecurity, the outcomes of which have contributed to strengthening national cybersecurity and technological sovereignty, localizing priority technologies, and enhancing information sharing and international cooperation," he said. It is noteworthy that the NCA is the competent authority for cybersecurity in the Kingdom and the national authority for cybersecurity affairs. It aims to strengthen cybersecurity to protect the country's vital interests, infrastructure, and national security. It is responsible for stimulating the growth of the cybersecurity sector in the Kingdom, encouraging innovation and investment in it, and developing policies, governance mechanisms, frameworks, standards, controls, and guidelines related to cybersecurity. This is to achieve a secure and reliable Saudi cyberspace that enables growth and prosperity.
Saudi Gazette
5 days ago
- Business
- Saudi Gazette
Saudi Arabia maintains top global ranking in cybersecurity
Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — Saudi Arabia maintained its top global ranking in the Cybersecurity Index, according to the 2025 World Competitiveness Yearbook. The Yearbook is an annual report published by the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), based in Switzerland, on the competitiveness of nations. The yearbook benchmarks the performance of 63 countries based on 340 criteria measuring different facets of competitiveness. Dr. Musaed Al-Aiban, chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Cybersecurity Authority, affirmed that this achievement "adds to the series of achievements and successes scored by Saudi Arabia in all fields since the launch of the leadership's insightful, proactive vision to establish the cybersecurity sector, in a comprehensive manner, encompassing both security and development aspects, with all its local and international dimensions." He said that the cybersecurity system has witnessed significant development in record time since the establishment of the National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA) as the Saudi entity responsible for cybersecurity and the national authority for cybersecurity affairs and the establishment of the Saudi Information Technology Company (SITE) as its strategic and technical partner. "These are two fundamental pillars of the Saudi model for cybersecurity, the outcomes of which have contributed to strengthening national cybersecurity and technological sovereignty, localizing priority technologies, and enhancing information sharing and international cooperation," he said. It is noteworthy that the NCA is the competent authority for cybersecurity in the Kingdom and the national authority for cybersecurity affairs. It aims to strengthen cybersecurity to protect the country's vital interests, infrastructure, and national security. It is responsible for stimulating the growth of the cybersecurity sector in the Kingdom, encouraging innovation and investment in it, and developing policies, governance mechanisms, frameworks, standards, controls, and guidelines related to cybersecurity. This is to achieve a secure and reliable Saudi cyberspace that enables growth and prosperity.
The Hindu
22-05-2025
- General
- The Hindu
When a polar bear gifted to the Madras Zoo couldn't survive the heat
Can you believe that polar bears were housed in Madras briefly during the mid-1950s and 1960s? To mark the centenary of the Madras Zoo, started as a menagerie in 1855 at Egmore and later shifted to the People's Park beside the Central Station, the Madras Corporation reached out to the Moscow Zoo through the Soviet Embassy in India, requesting a polar bear as a gift. The Soviet response was swift and generous. After all, as a research article published in the Yearbook of the Swedish Linnaeus Society in 2016 notes, polar bears have been used as diplomatic gifts since the medieval times. In October 1955, a polar bear cub, just seven months old, arrived in Madras. It was named Snejhok, Russian for 'little snow'. According to an article published in The Hindu on October 10, 1955, the polar bear, captured on an icy island of Russia, was about two feet tall and arrived in Madras by the Grand Trunk Express from New Delhi, along with a glutton (an animal of the weasel family) and half-a-dozen pigeons. The animals were escorted by Sosnovsky, Director of the Moscow Zoo, his interpreter, and John, Veterinary Officer of the Madras Corporation. Reaching Kabul The glutton, named Rosa, was captured in the Ural forest near the city of Sverdlovsk in January 1953, and was housed in the Moscow Zoo from March 1955. As the article notes, the animals arrived in Kabul from the Soviet Union on September 21. However, Indian Airlines refused to accommodate them on a flight to Delhi. The Russian Embassy then appealed to the Government of India for assistance. In response, three seats were removed from an aircraft to make room for the animals. This was not the first time polar bears had set paws on Indian soil. Back on December 31, 1953, a shipment of exotic animals arrived at Madras Harbour aboard s.s. Bärenfels from Germany. Among them were three polar bears, reportedly the first of their kind to reach India in over thirty years. These bears, each a year old, had been captured by Norwegian fishermen in the icy wilderness of Spitsbergen, Norway. Their destination was the Mysore Zoo. The same shipment also included four Russian brown bears — part of an animal exchange that saw Indian monkeys sent to Russian zoos. Two of these brown bears were to stay in Madras, while the other two were bound for Trivandrum. Different menu Though polar bears are natural fish-eaters, in captivity they had to adapt themselves to a different menu, comprising cooked meat and bread. To help them cope with the Indian weather, zookeepers regularly sprayed them with water. Special arrangements were made at the zoo to house this visitor. A 'polar weather enclosure' was set up, and plans were announced to install air-conditioned chambers to help the bear adapt itself to the tropical heat. However, it is unclear whether the air conditioners were ever installed. In the meantime, Snejhok made do with shower baths and shady corners. Despite the efforts, the weather was a challenge. A special spread in The Hindu on October 31, 1955, during the zoo's centenary celebrations, noted that Snejhok was not fond of crowds. He was known to become agitated when too many visitors gathered around his enclosure, roaring in protest if anyone got too close. He seemed every bit the snow-dweller, stranded in a furnace. And then, just a few years later, the inevitable happened. In the summer of 1959, the polar bear died. Despite the zoo's best efforts to keep him cool, the bear succumbed to the unrelenting Madras heat. An abscess developed, and the animal didn't survive. The Corporation wrote again to Moscow, requesting for another polar bear to take Snejhok's place. While the exact timeline of a second polar bear's arrival at the Madras Zoo remains unclear, it is likely that this is the one that historian and conservation writer Theodore Baskaran, now 85, remembers seeing in the early 1960s. 'The polar bear was miserable,' Mr. Baskaran recalled. 'There was no sophisticated air-conditioning system back then, so they had placed blocks of ice in the enclosure. The poor animal was confined to a cage.' Wildlife biologist and conservationist Ravi Chellam, 64, also remembers seeing the polar bear during a visit to the zoo when he was around six years old, with a certain awe, curiosity, and concern. 'While it was fascinating to see a polar bear, two things struck me, even at that age,' he said. 'One was the small size of the cage, which had stone flooring and iron bars, like most zoo enclosures in those days. The other was how the bear was just flopped on the ice blocks. I had seen pictures of polar bears before, possibly in The Hindu, and knew they had white fur. But the one I saw had a brownish tinge,' he added. Mr. Baskaran noted that capturing animals from the wild is problematic in itself, but keeping a solitary animal, without a companion, is even worse. Recalling a visit to the Shillong Zoo with British naturalist Gerald Durrell, he recounted how Durrell, on seeing a lone loris, remarked that it might as well have been stuffed. While the Madras Zoo was shifted to Vandalur, there have been no further misadventures in getting exotic animals that would find it difficult to acclimatise themselves to the city's weather.
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Annual Report 2024 published
Malmö - ZetaDisplay AB (publ) announces that the Annual Report for 2024 (in Swedish), provided by the board of directors, is now published and available in electronic format on the Group's Investor Relations website A shorter translated English version Yearbook is also available. Malmö, 30 April 2025 This information is information that ZetaDisplay AB (publ) is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of Anders Olin, at 08:00 CET on 30 April 2025 For further questions, please contact: Anders Olin, President & CEOMobile: +46 076-101 14 88E-Mail: Claes Pedersen, CFOMobile: +45 23-68 86 58E-Mail: ABOUT ZETADISPLAYMore than 20 years of leadership and innovation in digital was founded 2003 in Sweden as one of the early pioneers of digital signage. We are one of the leading European corporations in the digital signage market and a leading force in the European digital signage industry. Our proprietary software platform, digital business development and consulting services, innovative digital signage solutions, and creative concepts regularly inspire- influence and guide millions of people every day in retail environments, in restaurants, on advertising screens, in factories, on trains, on cruise ships, in stadiums, in workplaces and in all types of public spaces indoor and outdoor. ZetaDisplay is one of the largest leading European full service digital signage companies with direct operations in eight European countries and the US with +125,000 active installations in more than 50 countries globally. We are the digital signage business partner of choice for many of the worlds most respected blue-chip brands and companies. ZetaDisplay is based in Malmö-Sweden, has a turnover of SEK +630 million and employs approx. 240 co-workers. ZetaDisplay is owned by the investment company Hanover Investors. More information at and Attachments Annual Report 2024 (Full Swedish edition) Yearbook Annual Report 2024 (Short English edition)Sign in to access your portfolio
Associated Press
11-03-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
WuXi Biologics Included in S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook 2025
Ranking in top 1% of S&P Global CSA Score Inclusion in Global Yearbook for third consecutive year Leader in Green CRDMO to drive innovation for a healthier future SHANGHAI, March 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- WuXi Biologics ('WuXi Bio') ( a leading global Contract Research, Development, and Manufacturing Organization (CRDMO), today announced it has been included in the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook 2025 ('Yearbook') for its strong sustainability performance in 2024. The company was ranked top in its industry and received a Top 1% S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) Score, marking the third year WuXi Biologics has received this highest level of recognition. The Yearbook aims to distinguish individual companies — within a range of industries — that have demonstrated strong corporate sustainability, based on their S&P Global 2024 CSA Score. Out of the 7,690 companies assessed in the 2024 CSA, only 780 companies, across 62 industries, were recognized as the top performers and selected for inclusion in Yearbook 2025. Dr. Chris Chen, CEO of WuXi Biologics and Chairman of its ESG Committee, commented, 'We are very pleased to be once again selected for inclusion in the Yearbook, a reflection of our steadfast dedication to enhancing our sustainability performance. As a global leader in Green CRDMO, we consistently deliver ESG excellence, enable partners worldwide to fulfill ESG commitments, and jointly work with all stakeholders to promote responsible practices throughout the entire value chain.' In the past couple of years, WuXi Biologics has also been named to the 2023 and 2024 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) for its unremitting efforts and notable achievements in promoting sustainable development. In addition, as a participant of United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative (PSCI), WuXi Biologics proactively contributes to advocating sustainability, and has earned widespread recognition for its efforts. It was granted an MSCI AAA Rating and EcoVadis Platinum Medal for two consecutive years; included in the UNGC 20 Case Examples of Sustainable Development for 20 Years Collection for its world-leading green biologics solutions; recognized as a Sustainalytics industry and regional ESG top-rated company for five consecutive years; named to the CDP Water Security 'A list' and awarded an 'A-" CDP Climate Change score; selected as a Constituent of the FTSE4Good Index Series; and listed in the Hang Seng ESG 50 Index. About WuXi Biologics WuXi Biologics (stock code: is a leading global Contract Research, Development and Manufacturing Organization (CRDMO) offering end-to-end solutions that enable partners to discover, develop and manufacture biologics – from concept to commercialization – for the benefit of patients worldwide. With over 12,000 skilled employees in China, the United States, Ireland, Germany and Singapore, WuXi Biologics leverages its technologies and expertise to provide customers with efficient and cost-effective biologics discovery, development and manufacturing solutions. As of December 31, 2024, WuXi Biologics is supporting 817 integrated client projects, including 21 in commercial manufacturing (excluding COVID CMO projects). WuXi Biologics views Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) responsibilities as an integral component of our ethos and business strategy, and we aim to be an ESG leader in the biologics CRDMO sector. Our facilities use next-generation biomanufacturing technologies and clean-energy sources. We have also established an ESG committee led by our CEO to steer the comprehensive ESG strategy and its implementation, enhancing our commitment to sustainability.
