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  Vientiane / AFP President Barack Obama attends a farewell dinner with Southeast Asian leaders on Wednesday, capping eight years of careful courtship that has created new friends, but left links frayed with America’s oldest regional ally—Thailand. When Obama looks around the gala dinner table in Vientiane, he will find a bevy of new partners. His engagement with former Communist foes ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Geared by the successful Mumbai exhibition last year that raked in approximately AED 400 million into Dubai real estate and attracted almost 6000 visitors, Dubai Property Show is all set to return to the Indian metropolis this year in December. The realty expo is being organised by Sumansa Exhibitions in partnership with Dubai Land Department. ...

  Ajman /Emirates Business Hotels and hotel apartments in Ajman are all set to welcome visitors to the emirate during the Eid Al Adha holiday. Majority of the establishments have reported 80% occupancy but expecting to reach full occupancy this week from last-minute bookings after the announcement that the public sector would enjoy a week-long Eid holiday and three days ...

  Reuters Danaher Corp said it would buy medical diagnostics company Cepheid in a deal valued at $4 billion, including debt, that will strengthen its presence in molecular diagnostics. Danaher, which develops technology for the dental, life sciences, diagnostics and environmental industries, spun off its industrial division in July to focus on science and technology. Piper Jaffray analysts said the ...

  Bloomberg UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said he understands the risks posed to Britain’s financial industry by the vote to leave the European Union and the importance of limiting the fallout on banks. ”It is important Britain maintains its status as a great place for financial services,” Hammond said in a statement. “The government stands ready to ...

  Bloomberg Australia’s economy expanded at the fastest annual pace in four years, driven by a surge in public investment to build roads and railways and continued strength in resource exports. Gross domestic product rose 0.5% in the second quarter from the previous three months, when it grew by a downward revised 1%; economists estimated 0.6% gain. The economy expanded ...

  Bloomberg Palm oil inventories in Malaysia probably fell to the lowest since 2011 as demand for the vegetable oil used in everything from instant noodles to detergents surged in countries including India and China. Inventories fell 7.9 percent to 1.63 million metric tons in August from a month earlier, the lowest since March 2011, according to the median of ...

  Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Tuesday toured the 15th Cityscape Global real estate exhibition which began on Tuesday at Dubai World Trade Centre and will conclude on September 8. Some 272 exhibitors from more than 30 countries (68 percent from the ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai South and Expo 2020 Dubai are collaborating at this year’s Cityscape Global to showcase the legacy that will be generated by the Expo and how it forms a part of the residential lifestyle opportunities for thousands of individuals within Dubai South in the run up to, and post, the mega-event. The Expo 2020 site in the ...

  Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, UAE Minister of Finance, and Chairman of Dubai Municipality, approved the awarding of a AED1 billion contract for the construction of the Mohammed bin Rashid Library, the biggest cultural project in the Arab world. Construction work will commence in September 2016 and be completed by ...