Bloomberg Carmike Cinemas Inc. shareholders should vote against the proposed $1.1 billion takeover of the movie theater company by AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., shareholder advisory firm Glass Lewis & Co. recommended in a note. Shareholders should vote against a proposal to approve the takeover as well as payouts to executives and authorization to adjourn a special meeting to give …

  Walter Andersen / Dániel Balázs SPECIAL TO EMIRATES BUSINESS US-India ties over the past few years have become increasingly close, but this movement has evoked limited response in China. Beijing’s composure is based on three factors: (1) Indian foreign policy is independent and free of strategic commitments to another countries; (2) India has been cautious in its handling of …

  Last this week, the London-based PR outfit Portland Communications released its second annual list of nations with the greatest magnitude of “soft power.” Relying on Joseph Nye’s traditional delineation of “soft power” – attraction as influence; the “pull” to hard power’s “push” – the group, patching together a supposed formula, claimed to reveal the 30 nations with the largest …