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Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai welcomed 4.75 million international overnight visitors in the first quarter of 2019, posting over two percent increase in tourism volumes compared to the same period last year according to the latest data released by Dubai’s Department of Tourism & Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism). Steadily picking up from a stable 2018 performance, Dubai’s tourism sector saw ...

Dubai / WAM The world is better when we act together: that’s the unifying message being passed, volleyed and headed around the world by Expo 2020 global ambassador Lionel Messi and shared in a new video-led campaign. The 60-second film shows the world-famous footballer and people around the planet connecting through the universal language of football as they keep the ...

Bloomberg Indonesia’s economic growth slowed in the first quarter amid a global slowdown that hurt the nation’s exports. Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced in the economy, rose 5.07 percent in the first quarter from a year ago, lower than the 5.2 percent median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists. Compared with the previous ...

Bloomberg DouYu International Holdings, a Chinese video-game live-streaming platform, is delaying the launch of its US initial public offering following market jitters over President Donald Trump’s threat to boost tariffs on China, people with knowledge of the matter said. The company, which initially planned to start its IPO roadshow on Monday US time, is considering postponing the launch by at ...

Bloomberg Expansion in India’s dominant services sector weakened in April due to polls, a private survey showed, suggesting a delayed recovery to Asia’s third-largest economy. The Nikkei India services purchasing managers’ index fell to a seven-month low of 51 in April from 52 in the previous month on the back of slower increases in new business. The PMI survey showed ...

Bloomberg Talks between the US and China to resolve their year-long trade standoff appeared to be on life-support on Monday, with Beijing struggling to respond to tweets by President Donald Trump that threaten an escalation of tariffs by the end of the week. China’s foreign ministry said that officials were still planning to travel to the US for the next ...

Bloomberg Norway’s Telenor ASA and Axiata Group Bhd, Malaysia’s biggest wireless carrier, are in talks to combine their Asian telecommunication operations to create a company with 300 million customers in nine countries. The proposed transaction will form an entity with sales of about $13 billion and earnings of about $5.5 billion. Potential “synergies” from the deal would amount to about ...

Bloomberg The eastern Indian state of Odisha, battered by one of the strongest cyclones in two decades, needs at least one trillion rupees ($14 billion) to rebuild damaged houses and public infrastructure, a government official said on Monday. About 500,000 people have lost their houses and would need reconstruction, said Bishnupada Sethi, special relief commissioner with the Odisha government. Almost ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc. will pay Qualcomm Inc. $4.5 billion to $4.7 billion to catch up on licensing fees accrued during a two-year legal battle between the companies settled last month. Qualcomm made the disclosure in its earnings report, while Apple declined to answer questions about the settlement during its own second-quarter earnings conference call. The figure was less than the ...

Bloomberg Franky Widjaja, head of one of the world’s biggest palm plantation companies, warned that the European Union’s plans to restrict use of the tropical oil in biofuel will misfire as the move will hurt growers and jeopardise future supplies of the vegetable oil. The world needs palm oil as supplies from alternative oilseeds just won’t be enough to meet ...