Bloomberg Workers are receiving lay-off notices and chemical companies face shutdowns as the effects of Canada’s largest rail strike in a decade ripples through the economy. The strike by about 3,200 conductors and railyard operators at Canadian National Railway Co (CN) is entering its seventh day, disrupting cargoes of everything from wheat to propane. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Canada’s ...
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Bloomberg Thieves made off with jewellery and artifacts worth a reported $1.1 billion after an early-morning burglary at a German museum. The robbers stole three sets of jewellery from Dresden’s Grunes Gewolbe — or Green Vault — after entering through a window just before 5 am local time on November 25, Joerg Kubiessa, the head of Dresden’s police, told reporters. ...
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Bloomberg Britain’s dominant phone company is looking for a new broadband equipment supplier to reduce its reliance on China’s Huawei Technologies Co as it prepares to connect millions of homes to optic fibre. BT Group Plc’s infrastructure division Openreach has started an evaluation process to seek a third strategic vendor alongside Huawei and Finland’s Nokia Oyj for the full-fibre roll-out, ...
Read More »Bloomberg Intel Corp is seeking buyers for its connected home division, a unit that makes chips used in home internet access gear, according to people familiar with the matter. The chipmaker has hired a financial adviser and is seeking to sell the unit that has annual sales of about $450 million, said the people, who asked not to be identified ...
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Bloomberg In London, which suffers from one of the most expensive property markets in Europe, thousands have found alternative housing for less than the cost of a parking space — though it helps if you can repair an engine or plug a leaky hull. Narrowboats, which aren’t much wider than a king-sized bed, have gained in popularity for those willing ...
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ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, chaired the third UAE Government Annual Meetings in Abu Dhabi on Monday. “Our ...
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ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Khalid bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Member of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Office, on Monday launched Saadiyat Grove, an AED 8 billion inclusive community located in the heart of Abu Dhabi’s Cultural District on Saadiyat Island and developed by Aldar Properties. HH Sheikh Khalid ...
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DUBAI / WAM The Dubai Diamond Exchange (DDE) – a subsidiary of DMCC, the Government of Dubai Authority on commodities trade and enterprise – announced on Monday that it had successfully hosted one of the largest rough diamond tenders ever to take place in the UAE. Stargems – a DMCC-registered international diamond company with interests in all aspects of the ...
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ABU DHABI / WAM Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) on Monday announced that it has signed an agreement with Xinfa to supply bauxite from its Guinea Alumina Corporation (GAC), bauxite mine in the Republic of Guinea to the Chinese company for the next five years. Under the agreement, EGA will supply Xinfa with millions of tonnes of bauxite each year from ...
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ABU DHABI / WAM Driverless vehicles may hit the UAE roads in 2021 as the UAE is preparing to become the first country in the world to have regulations on autonomous vehicles, a top official told Emirates News Agency (WAM) on Monday. “We will announce first draft of the standards and regulations for autonomous vehicles on Tuesday in the 5th ...
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