Jeddah / Emirates Business Deutsche Bank’s 2017 Market Outlook conference, titled ‘Global and Regional Investment Perspectives 2017’, the third event of its kind for Deutsche Bank in Saudi Arabia, opened at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Jeddah-Marina. The conference explored pressing macro issues affecting economies, capital markets, companies, family offices and individual investors around the Middle East & North …

  Prague / AFP The giant Slav Epic series by Art Nouveau icon Alfons Mucha is caught in a legal tug-of-war between the city of Prague and the Czech painter’s grandson, triggered by plans to send the work on tour to Japan. Though the late artist seduced early 20th century Paris with his floral posters of actress Sarah Bernhardt, Mucha …

  Yangon / AFP Moshing and sweating, the crowd of headbangers scream their angst into the sultry Yangon night, a rare glimpse of a defiant musical subculture now crashing into the open remain off the song sheet. Half a century of repressive military rule virtually silenced Myanmar’s heavy metal scene and today its musicians are still shunned by most people …