Author: Tue, 2018-10-23 02:58RIYADH: A major investment show in Saudi Arabia is expected to attract thousands of delegates and see deals worth hundreds of billions of dollars — despite several largely “symbolic” last-minute cancelations by…
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Author: Frank KaneID: 1540239558257111800Mon, 2018-10-22 23:20RIYADH: An American expert on US-Saudi business affairs believes that the withdrawal of some senior business leaders from the investment conference that opens in Riyadh today does not…
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Author: ReutersID: 1540238598707045000Mon, 2018-10-22 17:42DUBAI: Richard Branson is quitting as chairman of Virgin Hyperloop One after saying the company, that plans to build a supersonic transport system in the UAE and other countries, needs a…
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Author: REBECCA SPONGID: 1540225921886166700Mon, 2018-10-22 13:22LONDON: More than three-quarters of respondents in the UAE and Saudi Arabia said that the troubled global trading system can be restored to “working order,” according to a surve…
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Author: ARAB NEWSID: 1540225224976126300Mon, 2018-10-22 16:38LONDON: Saudi Arabia’s pension system has been given a similar rating to those granted to the US and Hong Kong, according to the results of a global pension index.It is the first ti…
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Author: Mon, 2018-10-22 14:08DUBAI: UAE tourists could avail of Value Added Tax (VAT) refunds on their purchases in the country starting November 18, local daily Khaleej Times has reported.The UAE Federal Tax Authority is implementing the new t…
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Author: ReutersID: 1540205541564454300Mon, 2018-10-22 13:52DUBAI: UAE-based health care provider NMC Health on Monday raised its full-year core earnings and revenue forecasts, citing strong organic growth, and said it remained confident in achiev…
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Author: ReutersID: 1540198118014029400Mon, 2018-10-22 08:30LONDON: British households’ confidence in their finances worsened this month as their earnings from employment rose at the weakest rate since February, adding to growing signs of cautio…
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Author: AFPID: 1540190505993789000Mon, 2018-10-22 06:34MONTREAL: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said working with US President Donald Trump is “not always simple,” as he welcomed the successful renegotiation of the North American Free…
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Author: ReutersID: 1540188700773718200Mon, 2018-10-22 05:39LONDON: Saudi Arabia has no intention of unleashing a 1973-style oil embargo on Western consumers and will isolate oil from politics, the Saudi energy minister said on Monday amid a worse…
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African debt was a prime topic at the World Bank/IMF meeting – though research suggests China is not to blame.
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FDI has secured its place as a more prominent source of economic activity, says the European Central Bank.
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Qatar is turning crisis into opportunity by focusing on new partnerships and FDI reforms, to mitigate damage from the blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain. Sebastian Shehadi reports.
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Saudi Arabia is developing high-end tourism along its Red Sea coast, which it is hoped will capture both domestic and international visitors. Sebastian Shehadi reports.
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Attitudes towards working practices within the textiles industry have been changing over the past few years, with links to exploitative labour conditions now hugely damaging to a fashion house's reputation. Yasmin Jones-Henry reports on how the indus…
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Tunisia looks to be recovering the tourist numbers it lost following the 2015 terrorist attacks in Sousse, while jobs and FDI are also rebounding thanks to a batch of reforms. Sebastian Shehadi reports.
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While the international giants garner headlines for their dollar value, start-ups in Africa are solving everyday problems to improve the lot of citizens, writes Mazdak Rafaty.
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Foreign direct investment into Bahrain more than doubled in the first nine months of 2018 – but greenfield FDI projects hit a 14-year low this year. Sebastian Shehadi reports.
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Saudi Arabia is boosting the number of FDI licences it grants and simplifying applications as part of Vision 2030. Sebastian Shehadi and Laetitia Kurban report.
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Israel’s FDI total for the first half of 2018 is impressive, with most investment continuing to come from the US.
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Dara Khosrowshahi’s comments come on same day as senior executive resigns
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Lack of progress in reducing costs helps leave millions offline, survey finds
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A near-celebrity overseas, PM faces political challenges at home after a year in office
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Proposal to MPs includes possibility of extended transition to 2021
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Wall Street group reorganises to offer investment management services to the masses
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Berlin urges other EU states to stop sales in response to killing of journalist
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Finance minister insists Rome poses no threat to bloc’s financial stability
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Cyber security groups will be able to use database to train AI software
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CSI 300 climbs more than 4% after government moves to reassure markets
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Guido Sandleris says it is ‘too soon’ to declare that stability has returned to peso
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Millions of Russian tourists will no longer be soaking up the sun in Turkey and supermarkets across Russia will soon stop carrying Turkish produce after economic relations between the two countries further deteriorated on Monday. Russia prevented 1,2…
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Russia continued to ratchet up sanctions against Turkey Monday, announcing a ban on the import of Turkish fruits and vegetables, the Wall Street Journal reported. As sharp words are exchanged between the two trading partners, other countries are alre…
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World leaders convene in France on Monday for the latest global conference on climate change, called COP21, in an attempt to forge the first legally binding climate agreement amid increasing urgency. Yet officials from some countries are worried that…
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Turkey on Saturday issued a travel warning to its citizens, asking them to avoid all non-urgent travel to Russia, as diplomatic tension between the two countries escalates over the downing of a Russian jet by Turkey earlier this week.The Turkish…
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UPDATED 9:45 a.m. EST: Russia will suspend visa-free travel agreement with Turkey, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday. The action takes effect Jan. 1, the BBC reported.
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Russia threatened economic retaliation against Turkey on Thursday and said it was still awaiting a reasonable explanation for the shooting down of its warplane, but Turkey dismissed the threats as "emotional" and "unfitting".In an escalating war of…
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) -- Speculation that Saudi Arabia could devalue its currency may owe more to a poor public-relations effort by Saudi authorities than to the economic pressures on the kingdom. Riyadh has the tools available to pro…
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One particular sentence spoken by the Russian foreign minister Tuesday has Turkish officials feeling particularly uneasy: “We do not recommend that our citizens travel to Turkey for tourism or any other reason,” Sergey Lavrov said. He was in So…
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Saudi Arabia and Angola both beat out Russia as the largest crude oil suppliers to China in October, Bloomberg reported Monday. The huge China market is one arena where the world’s suppliers continue to compete for share amid a global oil glut, a…
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European leaders are planning to crack down on the use of bitcoin, prepaid credit cards and other methods of anonymous payment in response to the Paris attacks last week, Reuters reported Thursday. It's part of a crisis plan that aims to dismantle…
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AT A SUPERMARKET in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, the finance minister is staring aghast at a pack of nappies. “This is absolutely ridiculous!”, exclaims Mthuli Ncube. “$49!” A manager says it cost $23 two weeks ago, before pointing out ot…
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Installing a Jackie Chan canEVER SINCE the Kenyan government signed a deal in 2014 for a state-owned Chinese company to build a railway between Nairobi and Kenya’s main port in Mombasa, the project has attracted controversy. Its price per km wa…
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IN CALMER times the flight from Dubai to Beirut ends with stunning vistas of the hills of Damascus and the mountains of Lebanon. But for years the airspace over Syria has been crowded with warplanes. The Gulf airlines no longer use it. Instead Emi…
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Eat, pray, direct trafficTHE NEW church in Redemption City is only half-built. Already this great aeroplane hangar of a building measures 1.5km by 1km. Compared with it, Tesla’s “gigafactory” is a poky warehouse and St Peter’s Basilica is…
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WHEN AMERICA’S secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, met Saudi officials in Riyadh on October 16th, they smiled, posed for photographs and talked about jet lag. They did not dwell on the Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, allegedly carved up with a…
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THE hotels of Adigrat, an entrepot near Ethiopia’s border with Eritrea, are always busy during Meskel, a feast celebrated annually by Orthodox Christians in both countries. But this time room prices have soared. Returning visitors reckon the num…
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IN AN industrial park in Niamey, the capital of Niger, unemployed men rest in the shade from thirst-inducing heat. Warehouses gather dust. But there is a buzz around the country’s only brewery. Steam billows from 50-year-old copper cauldrons, an…
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From imports to importanceAND then there were two. After a long night of intrigue and counting in primary elections in Port Harcourt, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Nigeria’s main opposition, chose Atiku Abubakar as its presidential can…
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Let’s make a dealTHE chief of one of Israel’s intelligence agencies was recently surprised to discover that Chinese construction workers on a major building project might be able to see into a sensitive installation. But it is in keeping with…
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REFUGEES, dissidents and émigrés from across the Arab world are flocking to the old imperial city which ruled their lands until 1918. In Mukhtar, a popular café in Istanbul’s “Little Syria”, outcasts from regimes that crushed the Arab spr…
- 12 days ago, 11 Oct 18, 10:49am -

The Trump administration, under pressure to sanction Saudi Arabia over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, is seeking ways to maintain the two countries’ strategic alliance.
- 1 day ago, 21 Oct 18, 11:03pm -

The latest twist in an official narrative over how a government critic died inside Saudi Arabia’s Istanbul consulate has eroded the government’s credibility domestically and deepened concerns about expressing views in public.
- 1 day ago, 21 Oct 18, 9:48pm -

Russian and Asian executives and midlevel Western bankers will attend a Saudi Arabian investment conference this week that will be less splashy and global than its inaugural last year dubbed “Davos in the Desert.”
- 1 day ago, 21 Oct 18, 4:41pm -

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, secure for now, is scrambling to contain global backlash over the killing of government critic Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia’s Istanbul consulate.
- 1 day ago, 21 Oct 18, 4:24pm -

Saudi Arabia and Qatar are waging a propaganda war over the death of a Saudi journalist, trading blows with misinformation, Twitter bots and trolling in a fight that highlights the divisions of a realigned Middle East.
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