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BEIJING / Reuters Russia held its spot as China’s top crude oil supplier for a fifth month in a row in July, with shipments up 54 percent over a year earlier, data showed on Wednesday. Russian shipments last month came in at 4.97 million tonnes, or about 1.17 million barrels per day (bpd), the General Administration of Customs said in ...

KHOBAR / Reuters State-run Bahrain Petroleum Co (Bapco) will meet a consortium led by France’s Technip for further talks over the planned expansion of Bahrain’s only oil refinery, sources close to the matter told Reuters. Bahrain has long been planning to expand the Sitra refinery and industry sources told Reuters in April that all bidders for the work had been ...

Bloomberg Overseas fund managers and companies are tracking India’s efforts to force its biggest defaulters into insolvency proceedings as interest in buying distressed assets grows, according to investment bank Moelis & Co. A dozen companies in sectors including steel, power and construction may become buyout targets after the Reserve Bank of India ordered lenders to take them to insolvency court ...

Bloomberg China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. will raise as much as HK$88.1 billion ($11.3 billion) by selling new shares to its parent as part of a government-led ownership overhaul of the nation’s second-largest wireless carrier. Unicom plans to sell as many as 6.65 billion new shares to unlisted China Unicom (BVI) Ltd. at HK$13.24 apiece, or 10 percent higher than ...

Bloomberg VIPKid, an online education company that matches Chinese students with North American teachers, was valued at more than $1.5 billion in a round of funding from investors including Sequoia Capital China and Tencent Holdings Ltd., according to people familiar with the matter. The Beijing-based company said on Wednesday it had raised $200 million to expand into new markets and ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Emirate of Abu Dhabi’s non-oil trade with four GCC states hit AED11.33 billion ($3bn) during the first five months of the year, with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia coming on top of the emirate’s Gulf trade partners. According to the Statistics Centre- Abu Dhabi, the four countries, which include Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Worldwide spending on information security products and services will reach $86.4 billion in 2017, an increase of 7 percent over 2016, with spending expected to grow to $93 billion in 2018, according to the latest forecast from Gartner, Inc. Within the infrastructure protection segment, Gartner forecasts fast growth in the security testing market (albeit from a ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Central Bank announced that the money supply aggregate M1 decreased by 1.9 percent, from AED507.1 billion at the end of June 2017 to AED 497.5 billion at the end of July 2017. The money supply aggregate M2 decreased by 0.2 percent, from AED1267.1 billion at the end of June 2017 to AED1264.4 billion at the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Officials from the Industrial Development Bureau of the Department of Economic Development, visited three new factories in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, which started their operation in 2017 with a total investment value of AED2.471 billion. The first company was Taweelah Aluminium Extrusion Company LLC (TALEX) which specialises in the field of metal coating as well ...

GENEVA / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, has committed $5 million to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to support its Innovation for Uptake, Scale and Equity in Immunisation (INFUSE) initiative. His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed has provided $33 million for the work ...