DUBAI / EMIRATES BUSINESS Rasasi Perfumes, one of the leading perfume brands in the Middle East, expands its retail footprint in the UAE with new store opening at Mercato shopping mall, on Monday. The new store is the latest in a series of refurbishments and store openings for the home-grown business, as it experiences a period of extended and trend ...

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MELBOURNE / Reuters The last massive component of Australia’s $180 billion liquefied natural gas construction boom arrived on Monday, stepping up a race between Anglo-Dutch giant Shell and Japan’s Inpex to start chilling gas for export in 2018. Company reputations are at stake, as well as first access to overlapping gas fields and Australia leapfrogging Qatar as the world’s largest ...