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DP World eyes Panama Canal opportunities

  Dubai / WAM Dubai ports operator DP World is exploring opportunities relating to the expanded Panama Canal, the company has confirmed. DP World said that its chairman and CEO, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, met Panama President Juan Carlos Varela on Tuesday to discuss potential logistics and industrial parks and other projects in the country. Panama’s minister of commerce and industry, ...

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Politics wins out over economics for Modi

  The legal cases against Yogi Adityanath, the new chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous and politically significant state, include attempted murder and criminal intimidation. This freshly anointed leader of 200 million Indians, nearly 20% of whom are Muslim, wishes to install Hindu idols in every mosque in India, and has said that “if one Hindu is killed ...

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Get Hong Kong insurers while they’re hot

  Psst… want a frothy sale price? Sell a Hong Kong insurance asset, but do it quick, before Chinese regulators cotton on to mainland firms paying over the odds for the best yuan hedge around. Take Hong Kong Life Insurance Ltd., a small firm that an investment company associated with China UCF Group Co., the conglomerate led by businessman Zhang ...

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