Given its crucial role as an investment gateway to mainland China, Beijing is striving to appease a sullen Hong Kong during the visit of high ranking Chinese official, Zhang Dejiang, who chairs China’s communist-controlled legislature. The world’s second largest economy is set to strike a compromise between the strategic position of Hong Kong as an investment hub on one ...

  Have some money you want to donate, with the goal of bringing about political change? Whatever you do, don’t give it to Hillary Clinton. Or Donald Trump. It isn’t that there’s anything particularly wrong with either candidate. It’s that money donated to presidential general-election candidates is mostly wasted. This is the lesson the Koch brothers have apparently learned. In ...

  Luke Hunt SPECIAL TO EMIRATES BUSINESS When Cambodia announced plans to reintroduce tigers into the wild, the response was predictably negative. The country’s overarching reputation for corruption and mismanagement rose to the fore with its critics using an endangered species to carp about well-documented inadequacies. The Indochina tiger has been functionally extinct for several years. It was initially reported ...