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SHARJAH / WAM The Sharjah Sports Club team was crowned champion of the President’s Cup for Karate (Kata and Kumite). Eighty athletes from seven clubs across the country competed in the championship. Major General (retired) Nasser Al Razooqi, President of the UAE and Asian Karate Federations and Vice-President of the World Karate Federation, and several sports officials attended the event. ...

ABU DHABI / GULF TIME The residents of Abu Dhabi have their own China Centre with many opportunities for shopping, entertainment and leisure under one roof, and soon, an array of cultural and social activities will bring more thrill. The above was stated by Bo Sheng, Deputy General Manager of Original International, the operator of Capital Mall-China Centre located in ...

BLOOMBERG Amazon.com Inc shareholders voted down a slate of outside resolutions that would have asked the company to disclose more on workers’ rights and its climate change work, among other issues. Investors also approved Amazon’s executive pay practices, despite recommendations for a “no” vote from major shareholder advisory firms. The company reelected its slate of directors, one of whom was ...

BLOOMBERG Bain Capital is targeting November to relist Virgin Australia Airlines Pty Ltd through an initial public offering that could raise about A$1 billion ($665 million), the country’s largest in two years, according to people familiar with the matter. The private equity owner plans to sell down about 40% of its stake in the carrier, which it rescued in a ...

BLOOMBERG Ryanair Holdings Plc notched up another court victory in its fight against Covid-19 bailouts to rivals, this time winning its challenge to a €130 million ($140 million) subsidy for Italian carriers affected by the pandemic. The EU’s General Court annulled the European Commission’s 2020 decision to clear the Italian aid package under the bloc’s state-aid rules, saying regulators failed ...

BLOOMBERG An incident involving three Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd cabin crew making “inappropriate comments” about customers on a recent flight has set back the airline’s recovery and caused significant damage to its image, as well as Hong Kong’s, the carrier’s chief executive officer told employees. Ronald Lam, who became CEO at the start of the year, was referring to a ...

BLOOMBERG The failure of Credit Suisse Group AG shows that Europe’s top lenders would still need liquidity assistance from central banks if they were to collapse, according a top regulator. That case made clear that the needs of a so-called global systemically important bank in crisis would outstrip the bloc’s bank failure fund, as well as a planned additional facility, ...

BLOOMBERG Dollar purchases by the Indian central bank to limit the impact of foreign inflows are helping lead to shortages of the US currency in the Indian banking system and weighing on the rupee, according to analysts. The rupee has given up all of this year’s gains, having been up about 1% at the beginning of May and among Asia’s ...

BLOOMBERG Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank) missed analysts’ estimates as the lender failed to capitalise on rising interest rates and took a bigger provision for potentially souring loans than expected. Net interest margin — the difference between what the bank earns from loans and what it pays depositors — was 2.13% in the fiscal second quarter, compared with 2.11% in ...

BLOOMBERG Bank of Montreal posted a surprise drop in fiscal second-quarter profit as it set aside a larger provision for loan losses than analysts had expected and trading revenue fell. The bank’s provision for credit losses of C$1.02 billion ($755 million) included an initial C$517 million on the performing loan portfolio of Bank of the West, the bank said in ...