Bloomberg The Chinese Communist Party is probing the chairman of the Shanghai Airport Authority for alleged corruption as President Xi Jinping continues his more than five-year-old crackdown on graft. Wu Jianrong, 56, has come under under suspicion of violating party rules and state laws, according to a statement posted on the website of the party’s disciplinary watchdog in Shanghai that ...

Bloomberg UK billionaire Mike Ashley swooped in to rescue the House of Fraser Ltd. department-store chain for 90 million pounds ($115 million), staving off collapse for an anchor of the country’s troubled shopping districts. Ashley’s Sports Direct International Plc agreed to acquire the 169-year-old retailer’s UK stores, brand name and inventory. The move came after House of Fraser, which employs ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE has been ranked as the largest donor of emergency humanitarian assistance to Yemen in the world for 2018. According to the Financial Tracking Service (FTS), a centralised source of information on humanitarian funding flows, the UAE is also the second-largest source supporting the 2018 Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan (YHRP) following the Kingdom of Saudi ...