BLOOMBERG August may just have marked the darkest hour before dawn for China’s battered equity markets, with some investors saying that Beijing’s recent efforts to boost confidence will bear fruit in the coming days. The CSI 300 Index, benchmark of onshore Chinese shares, lost 6.2% this month to cap its biggest decline October. Down over 8% each, Hong Kong’s benchmark ...

ABU DHABI / WAM UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan awarded the First Class Medal of Independence to Jiri Slavík on the occasion of the end of his tenure as ambassador of the Czech Republic to the UAE. Reem bint Ebrahim Al Hashimy, Minister of State for International Cooperation, presented the medal to Ambassador Slavík during ...

ABU DHABI / WAM  Two of the United Arab Emirates’ Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreements (Cepa) will come into force on September 1, promising to deliver a new era of trade and investment cooperation with two rapidly emerging global economies. The UAE-Türkiye Cepa and the UAE-Indonesia Cepa will now remove or reduce tariffs on a vast array of goods, eliminate unnecessary ...