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Alibaba Cloud Unveils AI Image Generation Model Tongyi Wanxiang to Help Businesses to Unleash Creativity and Productivity

ModelScopeGPT also launched to help users accomplish complex AI tasks SHANGHAI, CHINA – Media OutReach – 7 July 2023 – Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, today unveiled its latest AI image generation model, Tongyi Wanxiang (‘Wanxiang’ means ‘tens of thousands of images’) at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2023. The cutting-edge generative AI model is now available for enterprise customers in […]

Cushman & Wakefield: Hong Kong Retail Market in Gradual 1H Recovery Since Border Reopening, Office Leasing Market Yet to Stage Significant Rebound

Residential Transaction Slowdown Since May as More Buyers Turn Cautious in Rate Hike Environment Retail sentiment continues to rebound, with high street rents maintaining low-single-digit growth, vacancy rates further dropping across districts, and pharmacy sector the most active for expansion Overall Grade A office net absorption in Q2 recorded -172,700 sq ft as leasing activity is yet to rebound significantly, some tenants taking advantage of lower rents […]

UAE world’s 4th largest greenfield investment recipient

Arabian Post Staff United Arab Emirates is the fourth largest recipient of greenfield projects in the world, according to the 2023 United Nations World Investment Report, which has just been released. The United States remained the largest host for announced greenfield projects and international project finance deals, followed by the United Kingdom, India, the United Arab Emirates and Germany for greenfield projects, and by India, the United […]

China’s Earlier High Growth Rate May Not Be Sustained, But Economy’s Potential Is Huge

By Girish Linganna The claim that China’s power is peaking is not new. For decades, there have been articles and books predicting that China’s rise is about to end and that its decline—or even collapse—is imminent. However, these predictions have always been wrong. Could this time be different? Let us examine the strongest arguments on […]

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Emirates flies to Montreal daily

Arabian Post Staff Emirates has taken off to Montréal, marking the airline’s first passenger flight to Québec’s culture capital, its second gateway in Canada. Emirates flight EK243 departed with over 340 passengers, including a VIP delegation and media onboard at 0300hrs today.   The new daily service to Montréal complements Emirates’ seven weekly services to Toronto and takes the airline’s North American network to 14 destinations and […]

Hamdan bin Zayed chairs Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi board meeting

Bahrain condemns Israeli attacks against Palestinians in West Bank

Indian Economy Is Showing Buoyancy Getting Confidence Of Foreign Investors

By Anjan Roy Global confidence in the India growth story is getting vindicated, as foreign portfolio investors (FPI) put their faith the Indian market by placing their money here into Indian stocks. As a result, the Indian equity market is rising to unprecedented levels. The Bombay Stock Exchange index, which is the best gauge for […]

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Electronics, Defence Production Will Strongly Push India’s Economic Growth

By Nantoo Banerjee Electronics and defence production are expected to strongly accelerate the country’s economic growth engine in the coming years. Global manufacturers now find India as the most happening place as China used to be in the beginning of the current century. From just two small mobile phone manufacturing factories in less than 10 […]

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Bureaucrats ‘overturning’ Delhi CM’s decisions

The National Capital Civil Services Authority (NCCSA), set up by the Centre through an ordinance, has been reduced to a “complete farce” as bureaucrats are “overturning” Delhi chief minister’s decisions and “dictating” their own will, the CMO said on Sunday. The statement by the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) came two days after the second meeting […]

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Tanoto Foundation Highlights Need to Catalyse Funding to Address Social Challenges

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 30 June 2023 – Speaking at the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN) Global Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Belinda Tanoto, Member of the Board of Trustees of the Tanoto Foundation, highlighted the need to further catalyse different kinds of funding to address pressing social needs. “In developing countries, it is important to mobilize different types of funding from a range […]

Parliament monsoon session from July 20 to August 11

The upcoming Monsoon session of Parliament will commence from July 20 till August 11, Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Pralhad Joshi said on Saturday. Making the announcement, the Minister urged political parties to contribute towards productive discussions during the session. The parliament may start operating from the old building and then eventually move to the […]

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Unemployment Rate Rose To 8.4 Per Cent, Livelihood Crisis Deepens

By Dr. Gyan Pathak All expectations of recovery in labour market conditions have shattered. Unemployment rate has risen to 8.4 per cent as the CMIE dashboard shows on July 1, 2023, calculated on the basis of 30 days moving average, and with it deepens the livelihood crisis. There are little jobs in the market, a […]

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Kejriwal govt moves SC against Centre’s Delhi Ordinance

The Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government on Friday approached the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of the Centre’s ordinance on control of services. In its petition, the AAP has deemed the ordinance as “unconstitutional” and sought an interim stay on its implementation. In the petition, the Delhi government has argued stating that the “ordinance violates the […]

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UAE Ambassador presents credentials to President of Chile

SANTIAGO, 30th June, 2023 (WAM) — Mohammed Saeed Al Neyadi presented his credentials as Ambassador

Risk To India’s Growth Trajectory In 2023-24 Fiscal Is Real

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though Indian economy is projected to grow at 6.5 per cent during 2023-24 with risks evenly balanced at this juncture, the slower global growth, potential volatility in the global financial system, and the persistence of core inflation, notwithstanding a dip in April 2023, could pose risks to the growth trajectory. In […]

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Gaw Capital Partners Successfully Completes the Final Close of Gateway Real Estate Fund VII at US$3 Billion

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 30 June 2023 – Real estate private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners announced the final close of its seventh Asia Pacific real estate fund, Gateway Real Estate Fund VII, bringing the total equity raised for the fund to US$3 billion. Following a similar opportunistic investment strategy as its predecessor Gateway funds, Fund VII focuses on real estate opportunities including office, […]

Al Azhar commends UAE’s response to burning of Holy Quran

Prudential teams up with Bangkok Dusit Medical Services to offer customers access to affordable high-quality breast cancer treatment

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 29 June 2023 – Prudential plc (Prudential) today announced a regional partnership with Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS) to provide its customers in Asia access to breast cancer treatment and other related services in Thailand. Through this collaboration, all insured customers of Prudential in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar can seek treatment for breast cancer with cost certainty […]

India’s temple chariot fire kills at least six, injures ten

‘Bitmama’ helps central bank digital currency projects

Over the past ten years, the true believers of the cryptocurrency revolution have turned what was once considered the gallery of the financial world into a new trillion-dollar asset class. Now they are ready to receive congratulations counting their digital coins. At the same time, even among entrepreneurs, not everyone has a clear idea of what cryptocurrency is and how to work with it. This is how […]

Gujarat Gets Status Of First Among Equals In Line With Modi’s Love For Home State

By K Raveendran The standard definition of crony capitalism is the existence of an economic system characterised by mutually advantageous relationships between business leaders and government officials. Going by this, at least two major decisions this week are India-centric, though with linkages to domestic as well as international. The International Cricket Council ICC), over which […]

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Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao Is Now Fighting Opposition More Than BJP

By Sushil Kutty If cars and sports utility vehicles can win general elections, then Bharat Rashtra Samithi President K Chandrasekhar Rao is already the Prime Minister! KCR, as he is called, led a convoy of 600 cars & SUVs into Maharashtra on Monday and made jittery a clutch of top Maharashtra politicians. Why, even Prime […]

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Cushman & Wakefield Grows its Capital Advisory business in Greater China and Australia

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 28 June 2023 – Cushman & Wakefield is pleased to announce new senior hires in its Capital Advisory business in Greater China and Australia, augmenting its Capital Advisory platform across Asia Pacific and the globe. Canon Yau has been appointed as Managing Director, Capital Advisory, Greater China. He has over 20 years of experience in direct investments, deal structuring and […]