RAS AL KHAIMAH / WAM His Highness Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, has said that Ras Al Khaimah is taking deliberate steps to enhance its presence as a leading destination for hosting the most important sports competitions. His Highness pointed out that the events witnessed by the emirate during ...

  Bloomberg Australian utility AGL Energy Ltd rejected a multibillion-dollar takeover bid from Brookfield Asset Management Inc and technology billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes, who plan to accelerate the closure of the company’s polluting coal-fired power plants. Brookfield and Cannon-Brookes’s investment firm Grok Ventures have a $14 billion transition plan to shift AGL to clean energy and “remains optimistic that an agreement ...

Hong Kong’s rapid isolation from the rest of the world has business executives, investors and expatriates asking whether Singapore will overtake the territory as Asia’s main financial center. If that’s the ambition, there’s a lot of ground to cover. A more realistic outcome is that the two locations work as complements, rather than competitors for global talent. The situation in ...