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Bloomberg The largest Indonesian phone operator said it will wait to see how the spat between US officials and Huawei Technologies Co ends before picking suppliers for 5G wireless equipment. Southeast Asia’s largest market for telecom services is still several years from launching 5G services, allowing PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia time to decide whether to pick Huawei as a supplier, President ...

Bloomberg Dressed in a red guard uniform, Gao Hongli and a group of fellow kindergarten principals are laughing and whooping like they’re on a Marxist hen night. They’ve travelled to Jinggang Mountain in Jiangxi province as part of a 100-strong delegation of preschool heads to learn how members of the Communist Party’s first rural “soviet base” lived in the late ...

Bloomberg Nancy Pelosi set House Democrats on a course towards an impeachment of President Donald Trump without a clear road map for where it will go and how long it will take — even as new information comes to light. Democrats accelerated their inquiry, issuing a subpoena and setting plans for witness interviews. But Pelosi, the House speaker, must still ...

Bloomberg Britain’s two largest drugmakers, betting on a new generation of cancer treatments that block tumor cells from fixing their damaged DNA, showed that these medicines work in a broad swath of patients. Women with ovarian cancer treated with GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s drug Zejula had a 38 percent reduction in the risk of dying or seeing the disease progress, the company ...

Bloomberg Social media platforms based in the US including Facebook and WhatsApp will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages with British police under a new treaty between the two countries, according to a person familiar with the matter. The accord, which is set to be signed by next month, will compel social media firms to share information to support ...

Bloomberg Elon Musk gave space fans an outline of plans for “Starship,” the next-generation vehicle his Space Exploration Technologies Corp expects to use to eventually take humans to Mars. The goal is to make “space travel like air travel,” Musk said on stage during a highly technical presentation from the company’s Boca Chica test site near Brownsville, Texas. “We’re really ...

NEW YORK / WAM The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres received HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and his accompanying delegation. During the meeting, held on the sidelines of the 74th UN General Assembly (UNGA), in New York, Guterres discussed with Sheikh Abdullah ways to enhance joint cooperation between the UAE and ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM In the presence of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and Dr. Ali Mohammed Shein, President of Zanzibar, the Khalifa Fund For Enterprise Development, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the Ministry of Finance and Planning of Tanzania ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Government of Abu Dhabi, represented by 32 key government and academic entities, has expressed readiness in preparing its participation at ‘Gitex Technology Week’, which will be held from October 6 to 10, at the Dubai World Trade Center (DWTC). Abu Dhabi Digital Authority (ADDA), the leading governmental entity in charge of coordinating the participation of ...

Dubai / WAM A Norwegian programme to swap plastic waste for financial reward, an online software from Bhutan that calculates healthy, cost-effective school meals sourcing ingredients from local farms, and a Cameroonian project to build sustainable refugee camps are among the 25 projects selected in Expo 2020 Dubai’s Global Best Practice Programme. The 25 success stories – all simple, effective, ...