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DUBAI / Emirates Business The World Economic Forum (WEF) has released its Digital Evolution Index (DEI) for 2017, classifying the UAE as a “stand out” country with an overall score of 3.22, which makes it the most advanced market in the Arab world and 22nd on a global level. Stand Out countries are “highly advanced digitally, and exhibit high momentum.” ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Passenger numbers at Dubai World Central (DWC), Dubai’s second airport, grew by more than 35 percent in the first half of the year, according to the traffic report issued by operator, Dubai Airports. DWC welcomed 554,993 passengers in the first half of 2017 compared to 410,278 passengers during the first six months last year, a growth ...

Bloomberg I Squared Capital agreed to pay HK$14.5 billion ($1.9 billion) in cash to buy the fixed-line assets of billionaire Li Ka-shing’s Hong Kong telecommunications business, giving the investor group control of a fiber-optic network serving corporate customers and residents. Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Ltd. shares surged the most in more than six years on Monday. The company announced ...

Bloomberg Sohu.com Inc. rose the most in almost five years after its chairman said the Chinese company’s search engine subsidiary Sogou is on a “very good trajectory” as it prepares for a public listing in the US. Sohu told investors on Monday it planned to file paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of ...

Bloomberg In China, taxi rides aren’t just a form of transportation any more. They’ve also become useful for bond buyers doing due diligence. Dining out at restaurants is also helpful. It’s all part of a boom in field trips by market participants coming to grips with a new reality in China: the potential for bond defaults. After decades when authorities ...

Bloomberg India is poised to reject Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group Co.’s proposed $1.3 billion takeover of an Indian drugmaker, according to people familiar with the matter, scuppering the biggest-ever Chinese acquisition in the country. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, which is chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has decided to block the Chinese firm’s purchase of an 86 percent ...

Bloomberg 13 Holdings Ltd. missed a Monday deadline to open its luxury hotel in Macau, a condition of a HK$3 billion ($384 million) loan from Bank of Communications Co. for the gaming project just off the Cotai strip, according to people familiar with the matter. The $1.6 billion development, started by 13 Holdings co-chairman Stephen Hung, formerly co-head of Asia ...

Bloomberg Andy Marsh sees his future — and it’s forklifts. His tiny company, Plug Power Inc., makes hydrogen fuel cells, and for years he struggled to find customers. No longer. In April, Amazon.com Inc. agreed to try out the technology in forklift fleets at 10 of its warehouses. And in July, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. matched Amazon’s $600 million deal with ...

Bloomberg Customs checks at the border after the UK leaves the European Union could cost 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion) a year and cause delays for goods being shipped in both directions, according to a report by Oxera, an economic consultancy. The estimate assumes low regulation but high levels of enforcement and is based on World Trade Organization data on ...

Bloomberg Consumer credit growth slowed in June after the Bank of England officials took action to limit areas of risk from borrowing. Unsecured lending rose 10 percent from a year earlier, the least in more than a year, the UK central bank said on Monday. It grew 1.5 billion pounds on the month The BOE in June responded to the ...