Aden / WAM Saeed Al Ali, Director of the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), in Aden, and Yemeni Minister of Culture, Marwan Damaj, visited the Department of Art Production and Department of Theatres at the Culture Office in the interim capital, Aden. The ERC head inspected the building and the National Theatre, which, he said needed rehabilitation of lighting, air conditioning ...
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]ubai / ًْ Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Dubai Airport Freezone Authority (Dafza) to support the graduates of the One Million Arab Coders initiative, launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to prepare a generation of ...
Read More »Elliott seeks $770mn from South Korea in Samsung fight
Bloomberg Elliott Management Corp. said it was seeking compensation for at least $770 million in damages from South Korea over how its former administration intervened in the merger of Samsung C&T Corp. and Cheil Industries Inc. in 2015. Billionaire Paul Singer’s New York-based hedge fund had submitted the dispute for arbitration and urged the government to pay the damages in ...
Read More »India’s Mukesh Ambani topples Jack Ma as Asia’s richest person
Bloomberg Mukesh Ambani overtook Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma to become Asia’s richest person as he positions Reliance Industries Ltd. to disrupt the e-commerce space in India. The chairman of India’s refining-to-telecoms conglomerate, Ambani was estimated to be worth $44.3 billion with Reliance Industries Ltd. rising 1.6 percent to a record 1,099.8 rupees, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Ma’s wealth ...
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Bloomberg Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, which backed some of China’s biggest technology startups, is becoming more selective about investments in the sector amid soaring valuations. An influx of investors of all stripes, from venture capital to sovereign wealth and hedge-funds, has driven up valuations of many unprofitable startups, Jeffrey Jaensubhakij, group chief investment officer of GIC Pte., said in an ...
Read More »Apple fails to tempt Indian consumers
Bloomberg Apple Inc. has lost a trio of pivotal executives in India in recent weeks as it struggles to boost iPhone sales in the world’s fastest-growing major smartphone market, people familiar with the matter say. Among the executives who’ve departed are its national sales and distribution chief, the head of its commercial channels and mid-market business, and the head of ...
Read More »Tesla, BMW bypass Trump’s trade war, score a win for China
Bloomberg Less than a week into President Donald Trump’s trade war with China, global automakers have shown there are ways to bypass the battle — and scoring a win for Beijing in the process. Tesla Inc. and BMW AG are among the biggest potential losers from Beijing’s retaliatory tariffs on car imports from the US because much of their production ...
Read More »Trump considers tapping US oil reserve as prices at pump rise
Bloomberg The Trump administration is actively considering tapping into the nation’s emergency supply of crude oil as political pressure grows to rein in rising gasoline prices before congressional elections in November, two people familiar with the situation said. No decision has been made to release crude from the 660-million-barrel stockpile, known as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, but options under review ...
Read More »UK energy costs head higher with plan to leave single market
Bloomberg Britain’s paper on leaving the European Union raised more questions for the energy industry than it answered, setting up the risk that the legal arrangements allowing power and gas to flow across borders could come unraveled and drive up the cost of doing business. The government for the first time raised the possibility of leaving the EU’s single market, ...
Read More »Apple updates Pro laptops ahead of fall product blitz
Bloomberg Apple Inc. released an upgraded MacBook Pro line that’s faster and has more features, targeting its loyal base of professional users like app developers and movie editors. The new laptops, which come in the same 13-inch and 15-inch sizes as last year’s models, include pro-focused upgrades like additional memory and storage, the ability to compile code faster, brighter screens, ...
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