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Bloomberg There’s nothing like $1.5 trillion in tax cuts to help make friends at a gathering of conservative political donors. Donald Trump is gaining ground with members to the Koch political network, after the president’s name was hardly mentioned when the deep-pocketed individuals last assembled seven months ago. At that time, the group was skeptical of the former New York ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, performed the funeral prayer at Al Mu’tareed Mosque in Al Ain, on the body ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Sheikha Hessa bint Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, mother of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, passed away on Sunday. The President receives condolence messages from UAE Rulers, world leaders and other prominent personalities on the passing away of his mother. Sultan bin Zayed His Highness Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Ibrahim Ismail Fateh Ali Al Khaja, member of the Board of Directors of the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Chairman of the Professional Sector Committee at the Chamber, met Kazumasa Susaki, Director-General of the Tokyo SME Support Centre, and his accompanying delegation, where they discussed opportunities for cooperation between both the chamber and ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The total value of 707 healthcare projects exceeded AED 223.50 billion ($60.9 billion) in January 2018, according to the latest GCC Construction Intelligence report issued by BNC Network, the largest and most comprehensive construction intelligence platform in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Of these, 445 projects worth $51.9 billion (AED190.47 billion) are hospital ...

Bloomberg Hundreds of Russians braved sub-zero temperatures to protest against President Vladimir Putin, who’s seeking to prolong his almost two-decade-long rule in March elections. Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who’s been barred from taking part in the March 18 vote, called on his supporters to rally in more than 100 cities in a bid to put more pressure on the ...

Bloomberg Europe is approaching the next stop in its global market-opening drive aimed at countering US President Donald Trump’s protectionist tilt. Top officials from the European Union will meet with the Mercosur group of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay on January 30 in Brussels to gauge the prospects for a free-trade deal that would follow groundbreaking commercial pacts with Japan ...

Bloomberg Google has a new sister: Parent company Alphabet Inc. announced the formation of a new subsidiary company, called Chronicle, focussed on cybersecurity. Chronicle was formed in 2016 inside of X, Alphabet’s experimental lab that has produced its driverless car effort, Waymo, and projects on drones, internet connectivity and the Google Glass headset. In the announcement, the new company stressed ...

Bloomberg Just over four years since Michael Dell took his namesake PC company private, the billionaire is considering taking Dell Technologies public again in a move to help it raise cash and reduce its substantial debt. An initial public offering would undo one of the biggest leveraged buyouts the tech industry has ever seen. The board is meeting later this ...

Bloomberg The disclosure that one of Japan’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges lost about $400 million in NEM tokens is spooking investors in a country still wary of such venues four years after the collapse of Mt. Gox. After hours of speculation, Coincheck Inc. said the coins were sent “illicitly” outside the venue. Co-founder Yusuke Otsuka said the company didn’t know how ...