An electricity crisis that has caused protests and unrest in the Gaza Strip eased on Monday after Qatar donated $12 million to buy fuel for the Palestinian enclave’s lone power plant, officials said. For weeks, Gaza’s population of 2 million has been making do with barely a few hours a day of electricity – less than half its usual supply. The Energy Authority run by the enclave’s […]
US companies have rushed to renegotiate their loans at the start of the year, taking advantage of strong investor demand for debt that is more insulated against an expected rise in interest rates. January’s re-pricing volume has already reached $41.6bn — the highest monthly volume since January 2013 with a further two weeks before the month ends, according to data from LCD, an offering of S&P Global […]
MENA on-demand streaming service Starz Play has signed an agreement with 20th Century Fox Television Distribution to provide its movies and series to subscribers in the region. The agreement adds a large number of action and animation movies along with award-winning TV series to the Starz Play content library. The deal will see popular Fox movies like The Hills Have Eyes 2 and action-comedy The Heat available […]
Submitted by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Conventional wisdom suggests National Front candidate Marine le Pen will make it to the second round in French elections, then lose in a landslide to whoever her opponent happens to be. I believe le Pen’s odds of winning it outright are far better than most think. Current Polls Chart from Wikipedia, with image clips added. Top Five candidates Marine le Pen: […]
Source: United Nations University Hong Kong and Singapore in 2015 produced the highest volume of e-waste in the region, generating 21.7kg and 19.95kg, respectively, per capita. At 19.13kg per capita, Taiwan rounded up the top three e-waste producers, while China more than doubled its production between 2010 and 2015–at 107 percent–to 6.7 million tonnes. Across East and Southeast Asia, the average e-waste generation per capita was 10kg […]
China on Monday approved the resignations of two of Hong Kong’s top officials, including its financial secretary, paving the way for them to contest a March election to become the next chief executive of the financial hub. China’s State Council has accepted the resignations of financial secretary John Tsang, and of Carrie Lam, the city’s chief secretary, the official Xinhua news agency said. The former British colony […]
Your daily guide to community and cultural activities across the Emirates for January 16, 2017, including performances, festivals, art exhibitions, film screenings, health and fitness events, talks, classes, workshops and family fun. newslide Nationwide New movie In Into the Forest, sisters Nell and Eva (Ellen Page (pictured) and Evan Rachel Wood) find themselves in a battle to survive on their own at their isolated home in the […]
Cats has been seen by more than 70 million people worldwide, breaking records on both sides of the Atlantic – so it is hard to believe that just days before the premiere of the musical in May 1981, there were real fears it was going to be a monumental flop. Even with musical-theatre impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber’s name on the banner, securing funds for the production went down […]
Submitted by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Electric, driverless shuttles with no steering wheel and no brake pedal are now operating in Las Vegas. There’s a new thrill on the streets of downtown Las Vegas, where high- and low-rollers alike are climbing aboard what officials call the first driverless electric shuttle operating on a public U.S. street. The oval-shaped shuttle began running Tuesday as part of a […]
PARIS Over the past two decades, planemakers Airbus (AIR.PA) and Boeing (BA.N) have traded the crown in the annual orders race, and it was usually clear who had bragging rights in the fiercely competitive $120 billion annual jet market. On Wednesday, Airbus retained the top spot when it said it had recorded a total of 731 net orders for 2016, beating Boeing’s tally of 668 for the […]
Submitted by Gavin McInnes via TakiMag.com, Fake news site Buzzfeed just published a fake news story that is so fake, it’s not even fake news. “It’s just fake,” as Kellyanne Conway put it. The editor of Buzzfeed himself says he has “serious reason to doubt the allegations in it,” but he published it anyway because this is “how we see the job of reporters in 2017.” So, […]
Minister Without Portfolio Konrad Mizzi. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier During the year just ended the Labour government continued to dig itself deeper into a culture of institutionalised corruption with persons occupying high government positions and those close to them partaking of the fruits of a corrupt system. A perfect example was the scandal revealed last year by leaked secret files where then health and energy minister Konrad Mizzi […]
A border tax in the US could upend the export-based economic model that has brought prosperity to millions of people in Asia, say analysts, as the region wakes up to reforms proposed by Republicans in Congress. Although most attention is still focused on whether president-elect Donald Trump will slap tariffs on China or target companies that move production offshore, proposals for a US tax regime that penalises […]
|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 […]
By Karen Freifeld | NEW YORK NEW YORK Moody’s Corp (MCO.N) has agreed to pay nearly $864 million to settle with U.S. federal and state authorities over its ratings of risky mortgage securities in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday. The credit rating agency reached the deal with the Justice Department, 21 states and the District of Columbia, […]
That would be a significant bump from James’s recent releases, which have not been embraced by collectors. The LeBron 13, released in September 2015, has been especially disappointing to hard-core sneaker enthusiasts, with some deadstock models — unworn shoes in the original box and packaging — selling for less than the original $200 retail price on secondary markets. Continue reading the main story Whether the special release […]
Investors have returned to the world of debt in a cooling of the Trumpflation trade that pummelled bond markets and propelled equities to record highs after the US election. The shift, which has included fresh inflows to municipal, Treasury and emerging market bond funds over the past week, dovetails with a near month-long rally in haven US Treasuries and fatigue in benchmark stock indices. Municipal funds, which […]
Qatar is regaining its appetite for deals. In the past two months alone, the world’s richest country per capita invested in Turkey’s biggest poultry producer, Russian oil giant Rosneft PJSC, and U.K. gas company National Grid Plc. The investments have been made through the Qatar Investment Authority, created in 2005 to handle the country’s windfall from liquefied natural gas sales, of which it is the world’s biggest exporter. […]
“We open a new hotel every 36 hours,” Sébastien Bazin remarks, after outlining the impressive portfolio of French hospitality chain AccorHotels, with 4,100 hotels spread across 95 countries and employing 240,000 people. The significant sum includes properties gained through the recent acquisition of FRHI, a hotel management company formerly owned by Qatar Investment Authority, billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal’s private investment arm Kingdom Holding and Oxford […]
Video A Hunger Strike for His Wife Arash Sadeghi, an Iranian political prisoner, went on hunger strike for more than two months to protest the incarceration of his wife, Golrokh Ebrahimi-Iraee, who was temporarily released. By NEETI UPADHYE on Publish Date January 4, 2017. . Watch in Times Video » TEHRAN — The hunger strike, a pressure tactic of self-starvation used by political protesters around the world, […]
Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org, “Fake news!” roared Donald Trump, the work of “sick people.” The president-elect was referring to a 35-page dossier of lurid details of his alleged sexual misconduct in Russia, worked up by a former British spy. A two-page summary of the 35 pages had been added to Trump’s briefing by the CIA and FBI — and then leaked to CNN. This is […]
The digital humanities is the most exciting field you haven’t heard of—unless you happen to work on a college or university campus. For everyone else, I’ll risk censure and offer the pithiest definition I can muster: digital humanities is an interdisciplinary field in which scholars and educators bring computational tools and methods to humanistic inquiry. (For a more thorough definition, I recommend curious readers visit […]
Dubai’s office market saw the delivery of 129,000 square metre of gross leasable area (GLA) in 2016, bringing the total stock to 8.55 million square metres, according to a JLL report. JLL’s Year in Review 2016 said the majority of these completions were in Business Bay and TECOM A & B, with about 10,300 square metres of office space completed in the final quarter of 2016. Vacancy […]
Theresa May, the UK prime minister, bookended a volatile week for sterling, prompting a sharp rise in the cost of hedging against falls in the pound as she prepares to set out more information about her Brexit negotiating strategy. The pound rallied against the dollar on Friday, at one stage rising 0.6 per cent to regain the $1.22 mark. But traders are positioned for sterling to fall, […]
