Denpasar / AFP Indonesian police said on Tuesday that a Briton flew into a rage and repeatedly hit a Bali police officer over the head with a beer bottle after accusing him of being a “fake cop”. Traffic policeman Wayan Sudarsa was found dead last week with wounds to his head and neck on a popular beach in the south ...

  Phnom Penh / AFP Cambodia’s UN-backed court on Tuesday heard harrowing new details about the Khmer Rouge’s forced marriages, one of the brutal regime’s less reported atrocities. The Khmer Rouge oversaw the deaths of up to two million Cambodians from 1975-1979—nearly one-quarter of the population—in their quest for a Marxist agrarian utopia. But the testimony is the first time the ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Consumers across the Middle East would do well to wait until October to make their technology purchases this year given the extraordinary savings they will make at GITEX Shopper 2016. The region’s largest and most anticipated consumer electronics show continues to attract both the world’s top tech brands and the region’s largest power retailers. Taking ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Aramex, a leading global provider of comprehensive logistics and transportation solutions, has recently announced its partnership with NewBridge Pharmaceuticals. As part of this collaboration, Aramex is now providing a range of logistics services for NewBridge in the Middle East, Africa, Canada and the UK. Based in Dubai, UAE, NewBridge pharmaceuticals is a regional specialty company ...

  ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Azizi Developments, a leading UAE-based real estate developer with an influence in many international markets, has announced that 85 per cent of its AED 350 million Royal Bay Residence project has been sold. The project is scheduled to be completed by second quarter of 2017. Farhad Azizi, CEO of Azizi Developments, said “Dubai is ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has partnered with luxury department store Bloomingdale’s – Dubai as the retailer launches its Fall 2016 seasonal campaign. The airline is showcasing its iconic ‘penthouse in the sky’, The Residence, inside the store at Dubai Mall. Etihad Airways will also offer Bloomingdale’s – Dubai customers ...

  Bloomberg China is throwing the world’s leaders a party, and oil bulls may be hit with the hangover. Authorities in the Asian nation have ordered hundreds of factories to curb activity ahead of the Group of 20 summit in Hangzhou in early September, in a bid to ensure blue skies when the red carpet is rolled out. The curtailments, ...

  Bloomberg BlueScope Steel Ltd., Australia’s top steel producer, surged to a five-year high after the company doubled profits, helped by cost cuts and higher revenues. While prices and margins are poised to drop a bit, they’ll still be better on average than levels seen during the past 12 months, Chief Executive Officer Paul O’Malley said in an interview with ...

  Bloomberg Japan is struggling to keep its farms running as farmers age and young people shun the work. This has opened the door for more foreign workers — including a growing number found to be working illegally. The number of Japanese farmers has dropped by about half since 2000, to below 2 million this year, according to the agriculture ...

  Bloomberg Indian refiners that have benefited from the scrapping of fuel subsidies still have room to extend their world-beating surge on improving margins and cheap valuations, according to SBI Life Insurance Co. The rally still hasn’t caught up with fundamentals, said Gopikrishna Shenoy, chief investment officer at SBI Life, India’s second-biggest private insurer by assets under management. Indian Oil ...