December, 2016

• 28 December

  ‘Saudi youth support major investment in renewables’

  

    ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Ambitious plans set out by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the deployment of renewable energy are strongly aligned with the hopes and ambitions of the country’s young people, according to global research commissioned by Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company. The Masdar Gen Z Global Sustainability Survey, which spoke to around 5,000 youth aged ...

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• 28 December

  How to save Japan’s ailing tech empire? Ask Taiwan’s Tai

  

    While the world looks to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to see where he’ll take Japan next year, a lesser-known name is a better guide to the country’s long-term future. Tai Jeng-wu, 65, took over as president of Sharp Corp. in August after Foxconn Technology Group, and its founder Terry Gou, won a four-year battle for control of the struggling ...

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• 28 December

  Big guns but no bright lights is HK’s IPO destiny

  

    Even if it doesn’t get to host the IPO of Saudi oil giant Aramco, potentially the biggest float of all time, Hong Kong should still be able to maintain its billing as the world’s No. 1 venue for share sales next year. But with limited tech deals on the horizon, and most in the listing queue rather staid Chinese ...

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• 28 December

  The free-market case for climate science

  

    Are you someone who has faith in the power of free markets? Then you should naturally accept the evidence that human activity is bringing about climate change. Free and competitive markets work efficiently in large part because they are phenomenal information aggregators, gathering and sorting facts about consumer preferences and business production costs, and guiding market participants to engage ...

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• 28 December

  Abe, Obama hail reconciliation after Pearl Harbor pilgrimage

  

    Pearl Harbor / AFP The leaders of war-time enemies America and Japan made a poignant joint pilgrimage to Pearl Harbor, issuing symbolic declarations about the power of reconciliation and warning against the drumbeat of conflict. Seventy-five years after Japanese pilots brought war to idyllic Hawaii and dragged the United States into World War II, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offered ...

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• 28 December

  German police detain alleged contact of Berlin truck attacker

  Berlin / AFP German police on Wednesday detained a Tunisian national on suspicion of having ties to Anis Amri, the suspected Berlin truck attacker gunned down by Italian police last week, prosecutors said. “The deceased suspect Anis Amri had saved the number of this 40-year-old Tunisian national in his phone. The investigations indicate that he could have been involved in ...

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• 28 December

  OSCE confirms ‘major’ cyber attack

    Vienna / AFP International observer body the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) confirmed on Wednesday being the victim of a “major” cyber attack. “Early November the OSCE became aware of a major information security incident,” OSCE spokeswoman Mersiha Causevic Podzic said via email. The attack “compromis[ed] the confidentiality” of the OSCE’s IT network and put “its ...

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• 28 December

  Hong Kong’s ousted anti-China lawmakers make final appeal over ‘parliament ban’

  

    Hong Kong / AFP Two ousted pro-independence Hong Kong lawmakers on Wednesday announced they were making a final bid to overturn a controversial Beijing-linked ban preventing them from taking up their seats in parliament. Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung were elected in citywide polls in September but deliberately misread their oaths of office during their swearing-in ceremony, inserting expletives and ...

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• 28 December

  Bangladeshi fishermen claim Myanmar navy attacked trawler

    Dhaka / AFP Four Bangladeshi fishermen were injured when Myanmar’s navy allegedly opened fire on them while they were fishing along the countries’ troubled border in the Bay of Bengal, an official said on Wednesday. A group of 14 fishermen, four of whom have been hospitalised with bullet wounds, told coastguard officials that a Myanmar navy ship had entered ...

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• 28 December

  Young migrants living in limbo, awaiting Trump’s move

  

    New York / AFP The mother of Juana and Ines Alejandro took a deep breath, put on a brave face and handed her toddlers over to strangers at the Mexican border to be smuggled into the United States. That was 17 years ago. For the mother, going back to the poverty of her village in Oaxaca in Mexico was out ...

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