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Shabwah / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), distributed emergency relief aid to the people of Khourah area in Shabwa province, Yemen, to alleviate the suffering of Yemeni people. Emergency aid included 1,000 food baskets containing basic food items. Sultan Al Nuaimi, ERC representative in Shabwa, emphasised the importance of this assistance in providing daily necessities, pointing out the authority’s ...

Sharjah / WAM The Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), concluded the activities of its trade mission to the WorldFood Exhibition in Moscow, which it organised in cooperation with the Federation of UAE Chambers of Commerce and Industry. The SCCI, which was represented by the Sharjah Exports Development Centre, attended the activities of the exhibition. The trade mission was ...

Bloomberg After years of easy money, many of the world’s biggest oil traders are enduring a brutal new reality. Traders have been wrong-footed by wild swings in price spreads between oil grades, particularly in the US market. Amid dwindling profits, trading desks are being overhauled, with some firms restructuring their operations and paring budgets designed for better times. It’s a ...

Bloomberg Egypt’s biggest outsourcing services provider, Raya Contact Center, is expanding as economic growth rebounds and a weaker currency makes it more competitive. The Cairo-based company, which operates offshore call centers and offers other corporate services, added about 1,000 workstations this year, compared to a previous annual average of 400 workstations, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director Reem Asaad said. ...

Bloomberg Coronado Global Resources Inc., a miner backed by private equity firm Energy & Minerals Group, and current investors are seeking to raise as much as A$1.4 billion ($1 billion) in what would be Australia’s largest coal initial public offering. The company and existing holders are offering Chess Depository Interests at A$4 to A$4.80 each, according to a prospectus lodged ...

Bloomberg Singapore regulators fined Uber Technologies Inc. and Grab S$13 million ($9.5 million) for antitrust violations after the Asian ride-hailing giant acquired its US rival’s regional operations. Effective fares in the city-state rose between 10 percent and 15 percent after the “anti-competitive merger,” the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore said in a statement. While the watchdog didn’t nullify the ...

Bloomberg Mahindra Logistics Ltd., a unit of India’s biggest utility vehicle maker, expects higher revenues due to consolidation in the industry spurred by the nationwide sales tax. It’s easier for a customer to get the full benefit of the Goods and Services tax by dealing with a fewer number of vendors, said Mahindra Logistics Chief Executive Officer Pirojshaw Sarkari in ...

Bloomberg Prudential Plc’s Asian asset management arm has hired former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. dealmaker Edmund Lim, who previously led the bank’s Southeast Asia financial institutions group. Lim, who was a managing director at Goldman, will join Prudential’s Eastspring Investments unit in mid-November as head of corporate development, the fund manager said to Bloomberg queries. The banker is leaving Goldman ...

Bloomberg North Korea signaled it wants to bring in investments from South Korean companies to help modernise the secluded country, according to one of the business chiefs that went to Pyongyang last week. North Korea wants to have economic cooperation and technical assistance from the South, Sohn Kyung-shik, the 79-year-old co-chairman of CJ Group and the head of the Korea ...

Bloomberg Jewellers in India breathed a sigh of relief after the government is said to have ruled out raising import taxes on gold to curb a slump in the local currency. Gold futures in Mumbai rose and shares of Titan Co., India’s largest maker of branded jewellery by market value, pared losses. The country isn’t planning to raise the tax ...