DUBAI / Emirates Business Beautyworld Middle East 2019, region’s largest international trade fair for beauty products, hair, fragrances, and wellbeing opened in Dubai on Monday, featuring 1,790 exhibitors from 66 countries. Running until April 17 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, the 24th edition of the annual three-day event was opened by His Excellency Eng. Dawood Abdulrahman Al …

Bloomberg Oil companies in Norway may pay some of the highest taxes and wages in the world but they could always count on support in the halls of power. Then last week the country’s biggest political party pulled out the rug from under that certainty in a dramatic policy shift to abandon support for drilling off the Lofoten islands. As …

Bloomberg Papua New Guinea’s Finance Minister James Marape has left the government, citing differences with Prime Minister Peter O’Neill over resources policy, days after the state signed a deal with France’s Total SA on a liquefied natural gas expansion project. Marape announced his resignation in a Facebook Inc. post, saying his voice was not being heard on policy-related matters, including …