Emirates Business The Qatar Ministry of Culture and Sports has awarded the operation of two world-class arenas to ELAN Live Nation, a joint venture (JV) between ELAN Group, a diversified and fully integrated media and entertainment group in the Middle East, and Live Nation, the global leader in live entertainment. The JV will operate Lusail Multipurpose Arena in Lusail, …

  Bloomberg Australia’s economy expanded at the fastest annual pace in four years, driven by a surge in public investment to build roads and railways and continued strength in resource exports. Gross domestic product rose 0.5% in the second quarter from the previous three months, when it grew by a downward revised 1%; economists estimated 0.6% gain. The economy expanded …

  Bloomberg Government employees playing badminton in a Tianjin office lobby in the middle of the afternoon. Hundreds of miles away in the northern city of Tieling, workers manually cut rubber truck parts in a tiny family workshop that makes about $600 a month. They’re different examples of the same inefficiency hampering China’s rebalancing toward a consumption-led economy and weighing …