Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi Ports is on-pace to close 2019 with impressive year-to-date results and recording-breaking milestones, underlining the company’s continued contribution to the UAE’s non-oil GDP. Two of these milestones were achieved in the eleven months spanning from January to November 2019. During the period, the company handled more than 20 million tonnes of general cargo ...

Bloomberg The looming dissolution of Thailand’s highest-profile opposition party is set to strengthen the military-backed government’s grip on power as authorities signal their next move against the movement’s popular leader. The Future Forward party of Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, the third-largest in parliament, faces a trial as early as January for funding violations that it denies. Separately, Thanathorn and one other party ...

Bloomberg The US and its allies called on United Nations members to reveal whether they’re complying with UN-imposed sanctions requiring the repatriation of North Korean workers, part of an effort to squeeze Pyongyang of much-needed foreign currency inflows. As part of a series of resolutions passed in 2017, UN member states were required to send back all North Korean laborers ...