GENEVA / WAM The United Arab Emirates and Barbados have joined forces to co-host major United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) events in 2020. Barbados will host the 15th UNCTAD quadrennial conference in Bridgetown, while the UAE will host the World Investment Forum and the first eCommerce Week for Asia in Abu Dhabi. The two countries will co-chair ...

Bloomberg American technology companies have resumed selling certain products to Huawei Technologies Co after concluding there are legal ways to work with the Chinese telecom giant in spite of its inclusion on a Trump Administration blacklist. Micron Technology Inc, the largest US maker of computer memory chips, said that it had started shipping some components to Huawei after its lawyers ...

Bloomberg China can fish in parts of the South China Sea where the Philippines holds exclusive rights, President Rodrigo Duterte’s spokesman said, despite warnings from other officials this would be unconstitutional. Duterte is giving China this “privilege” out of friendship, and because of funding and trade relations extended by Beijing to his government, presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo said in an ...