|By Arabian Post Staff| Dubai-based leading private-equity firm Abraaj is raising an investment fund this year that will have a global focus as the company seeks opportunities in defensive industries such as health care and education, chief executive Arif Naqvi said in an interview at Davos. The firm has “a group of investors who have been supportive of us all the way through the last few years,” […]
Ken Miller Crunch Network Contributor Ken Miller is an investor, writer, and advisor to several technology companies and Venture Capital firms. Previously he was an Executive at PayPal and Intuit, and early Advisor to Square. More posts by this contributor: How to join the network Pundits and Monday morning quarterbacks have spent much of the last two months lost in a fog of speculation and assertions as […]
Celebrity photographer Anthony Horth is using his most persuasive Australian charm and flattery to keep Paula, a Brazilian model, relaxed and smiling during their first shoot together. Paula looks a picture of elegance as she sits on a “wedding throne” at Emirates Palace, surrounded by white tulips and draped in more than US$4 million (Dh14.6m) of diamonds. But it is not the jewels that former Vogue photographer […]
In a “mass layoff” event reported late last week by the Department of Labor, the Clinton Foundation announced it would lay off some 22 employees at the Clinton Global Initiative, which attained notoriety during the John Podesta leaks, when the various details of the fallout between between CGI head Doug Band and Chelsea Clinton were revealed; it also emerged that long-time Bill Clinton friend Band was soliciting […]
|By Arabian Post Staff|The Shariah Standard for Gold, introduced with the support of the World Gold Council, will open up a vast new world for gold investments, according to the Council’s Gold Outlook Report for 2017. It quotes Mark Mobius of Franklin Templeton as saying the new Shariah Standard on Gold will be a “game changer.” “The Shariah Standard on Gold will enable the foundation of what […]
Barts Health NHS Trust incorporates five hospitals in London – including St Bartholowmew’s. Image: Barts Health NHS Trust The largest hospital group in the UK has taken some of its systems offline following a cyberattack. Barts Health NHS Trust incorporates five hospitals across East London – Mile End Hospital, Newham University Hospital, The Royal London Hospital, St Bartholowmew’s Hospital and Whipps Cross University Hospital, with its workforce […]
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani leaves Trump Tower in November. (Image: CBSNews.com) Rudy Giuliani has been tapped to “lend expertise” and to advise the Trump administration on cybersecurity. The former New York mayor “will be sharing his expertise and insight as a trusted friend concerning private sector cybersecurity problems and emerging solutions developing in the private sector,” said a brief statement from the incoming Trump administration. […]
CNN sought to distance its reporting on President-elect Donald Trump from an article published by BuzzFeed shortly after he blasted both news organizations during his first press conference since the election. Both BuzzFeed and CNN went public with reports on Tuesday that a British intelligence official had compiled memos indicating that Russian officials might have compromising information about Trump. But while CNN merely said President Obama and […]
Green Bay will surely throw more complicated — and more dangerous — things at Prescott on Sunday when the Packers visit the Cowboys for an N.F.C. divisional playoff game, but in one way, Elliott’s antics provided a perfect snapshot of Prescott’s remarkable season. Nothing seems to faze him. Spitballs. Winning streaks. Criticism after a tough night. Praise after a great day. “I don’t know,” Prescott said when […]
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti supported Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith’s decision to publish a 35-page dossier containing damaging, unverified information about President-elect Donald Trump, saying that the company “stand(s) with Ben on his decision to publish this newsworthy document.” During his first press conference since becoming president-elect Wednesday, Trump blasted BuzzFeed for publishing the document in its entirety, calling the viral news organization “a failing pile of garbage” toward […]
|By Arabian Post Staff| Although smartphone sales growth rate is slowing down worldwide, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is witnessing an increase in sales. Smartphone shipment to the MENA region reached 171.2 million in 2016, up from 157.5 million, according to Statista.com – a global portal of statistics that collects information from 18,000 sources. This also means that the Middle East mobile market is […]
It is a new year and already it is back to business on the big runways with London Fashion Week Men, in a season that is experiencing a complete shake-up in the schedule, with more designers combining their men’s and women’s lines into one presentation. Missing from the line-up are Burberry, Coach and McQueen, while Paul Smith, who often hosts an event in London, will add women’s […]
Posada made his first professional stop in Oneonta, N.Y., in the shadow of Cooperstown, in 1991. He had been drafted as a middle infielder the previous summer, in the 24th round, from Calhoun Community College in Alabama. The Oneonta manager, Jack Gillis, thought he profiled better as a catcher. Continue reading the main story “The first practice day, we were working in the bullpen on catching,” said […]
Photo James E. Cartwright, a retired Marine general, arriving at Federal District Court in Washington in October. Credit Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press PWASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors asked a judge on Tuesday to sentence James E. Cartwright, a retired Marine Corps general and former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to two years in prison for lying to F.B.I. agents about his discussions with reporters about […]
Dubai-based air services provider dnata has revealed that December 23 was its busiest day in 2016 with 18,529 staff handling 281,388 passengers and 329,341 bags in the UAE. The company, a subsidiary of Emirates, said it dealt with one aircraft movement every 73 seconds on that day and closed the year with 419,133 tonnes of cargo at Dubai International Airport, up eight percent from the previous year. […]
On Tuesday morning, as they have for so many mornings now, Glenn Smith, Jennifer Berry Hawes and Abigail Darlington walked into Charleston’s District Court at 85 Broad Street with the tools they would need to tell the story. Hawes brought her 8.5-by-11-inch yellow notebook and whatever pen she had grabbed from the newsroom. Smith came ready to liveblog with his laptop and phone. Darlington planned to catch […]
|By Arabian Post Staff| Etihad Airways is in talks with banks to raise about $2.6 billion in loans to finance aircraft deliveries, Bloomberg reports quoting sources. The agency said the airline is seeking to raise $2 billion in 12-year loans for 10 Boeing Co. Dreamliner aircraft and about $600 million in financing for two Airbus Group SE A380 superjumbos. Bloomberg said low-cost carrier FlyDubai is also in early […]
MANILA: A major undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 struck southeast of the Philippines on Tuesday (Jan 10), the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake was measured by USGS to be at a depth of 613km and no tsunami alert has been issued. However, there have been reports of people in Sabah – including in Sandakan and the city centre – evacuating buildings after strong […]
“Have you ever eaten Danish food?” Chef Henrik Yde Andersen asks me during a morning Skype call. He is absent-mindedly waving about a cup of coffee as he talks. “It is rather bland – all potatoes and cabbages – and so, when I first encountered Thai cuisine, during a holiday on the island of Krabi many, many years ago, I cried my eyes out – from the […]
Submitted by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute, Sharia courts administering Islamic justice in Britain are run by clerics who believe some offenders should have their hands chopped off, according to Muslim scholar Elham Manea. She described the prevailing attitude as “totalitarian” and as more backward than some parts of Pakistan. Teaching children fundamental British values is an act of “cultural supremacism,” according to the National Union […]
The military, security experts and soldiers at the scene quickly rejected that notion. “Those who ran from the scene were not concerned about Azaria, but about their own well-being,” said Yehuda Ben Meir, an expert in national security and public opinion at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. Continue reading the main story Still, the argument — unfolding in full volume on Israeli […]
|By Arabian Post Staff| Saudi Arabia is working with PricewaterhouseCoopers on plans to cancel about $20 billion of projects as the kingdom seeks to shore up its finances, Bloomberg reported quoting sources. The Ministry of Economy and Planning hired the consultancy firm to review $69 billion of government contracts with a view to cutting about a third of them, it quoted sources as saying. Projects under review […]
No one can ever confidently predict what will happen in the following 12 months, but forecasting 2017 is particularly difficult. The surprises of 2016 (Brexit and the election of Donald Trump are at the top of the list but there were others, including the sacking of the entire Kuwaiti parliament, Saudi Arabia’s backflip on its oil production policy and the sudden demonetisation in India) demonstrate that we […]
‘This is a product of a wild and active imagination. It’s adding a plus-plus when there’s nothing there,’ says policy expert Tony La Viña Rappler.com Published 7:00 PM, January 09, 2017 Updated 7:00 PM, January 09, 2017 INCRIMINATING EMAILS? The internet explodes into a frenzy over supposed leaked emails from the Office of the Vice President containing negative messages about President Rodrigo Duterte. The buzz started among […]
