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Bloomberg China spent more than $48 billion across East Asia and the Pacific between 2000 and 2016 to reward countries that consume its products and support its foreign policy positions, a new report has found. Infrastructure investment dwarfed other arms of Chinese public diplomacy over the period, according to a study by US research lab AidData released on Wednesday, totalling ...

Bloomberg This is John Flannery’s General Electric Co. — and so far, Wall Street likes it. A year after being named chief executive officer, Flannery took the boldest steps yet to revamp the sinking corporate titan, unveiling plans to pull GE out of the health-care and oil markets. By slimming it down and reorienting around power, renewable energy and aviation, ...

Bloomberg The White House opted to take a less confrontational approach towards Chinese investments in the US as it pushes Congress to strengt-hen an existing review pro-cess rather than invoke a little-used law reserved for economic emergencies. President Donald Trump wants Congress to pass legislation to bolster the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, or CFIUS, so it can ...

Bloomberg A top Facebook Inc executive said the company’s strategy to distinguish between journalism and political content will go into effect in the “coming days.” Facebook’s head of global news partnerships, Campbell Brown, said in an updated blog post that the social-media giant would divide its political ads archive into two sections — one for ads promoting news stories about ...

Bloomberg At a new luxury-condo building in Brooklyn, one buyer told broker Ryan Serhant that she’d like three apartments — one for herself to live in, and two as investments to rent out. She wasn’t the only one. The tower, 550 Vanderbilt, had more buyers become landlords in 2017 than any other condo project in the city, according to data ...

DUBAI / WAM The UAE is the biggest trade partner of Hong Kong in the Middle East, as the value of the non-oil trade exchange between the two countries accounted for $8.9 billion in 2017, with 5.1 percent annual growth compared to 2016, Juma Al Keet, Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Trade Affairs at the UAE Ministry of Economy (MoE) said ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Matar Salim Ali Al Dhaheri, Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, on Tuesday received Lt General Sir John Lorimer, UK’s Defence Senior Adviser on the Middle East, and his accompanying delegation. Al Dhaheri welcomed Lt General Lorimer and praised the relations between the UAE and UK which he said are witnessing great development across various sectors. ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business From facial recognition and iris scans, to crypto currency, the UAE’s banking and finance security innovation is driving the GCC’s cybersecurity market to $8 billion in 2018, industry experts said. UAE banks are rapidly deploying multi-factor authentication to confirm a person’s identity, with several factors, such as a smartphone, a password, and a facial scan. The ...

LONDON / WAM UAE-linked Petrofac, a leading international service provider to the oil and gas production and processing industry, has secured new orders worth $1.8 billion in the first half of 2018, according to an update released to the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday. “We are trading in line with expectations, delivering best-in-class project execution, continued momentum in new orders ...

DUBAI / WAM It is estimated that Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) contribute 40 percent to Dubai’s GDP and employ 42 percent of the total workforce, said Fahad Al Gergawi, CEO of Dubai Investment Development Agency (Dubai FDI). In a statement released on the occasion of ‘Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day’, which is observed on June 27, Al Gergawi, ...