SHARJAH / WAM The Sharjah Airport International Free Zone (Saif Zone), host to 8,000 companies, held a business meeting in Abu Dhabi, participated by more than 80 investors and businessmen representing multinational companies from Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and representatives of business councils operating in the UAE. The meeting came as part of Saif Zone’s efforts to attract and introduce ...

Bloomberg India issued a new tender for solar power equipment manufacturing capacity totaling 2 gigawatts, the latest attempt to spur its domestic industry after two earlier efforts failed to rouse investor interest. The new tender, issued by the state-owned Solar Energy Corp. of India, seeks as many as four projects for module, cell, ingot and wafer manufacturing with annual capacity ...

Bloomberg Japan moved to cut off materials vital to South Korea’s all-important tech industry, escalating a long-running dispute between the neighbours over events dating back generations. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government said it would slap export restrictions on highly specialised products needed to make semiconductors and computer displays, and might also remove South Korea from a list of trusted buyers. ...