Aijim (L) introduces handicrafts to a customer at the Sun Flower Inheritance and Development Center of Ewenki Autonomous Banner, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Aug. 6, 2020. Aijim is ... ( read original story ...)
Lebanon’s Prime Minister And Cabinet Resign Amid Beirut Blast Outrage
Diab publicized his decision in a televised address to the nation hours after Lebanon’s Cabinet folded. “The whole government resigned,” Health Minister Hamad Hassan told reporters after a Monday ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Next Digital soars as activists rally support for arrested tycoon Jimmy Lai
Shares in media company Next Digital surged more than 340% on Monday as supporters of its chairman Jimmy Lai, a staunch democracy activist, scooped up the stock after he was arrested under Hong Kong's ... ( read original story ...)
Interview: HK finance official says global investors speak positively of national security law, confident in Hong Kong
Global investors largely speak positively of the national security law in Hong Kong and remain confident in the global financial center, said Hui Ching-yu, secretary for Financial Services and the ... ( read original story ...)
Wix now Israel’s second most valuable company as retail shifts online
Israeli tech company Wix has emerged as an unlikely beneficiary of the coronavirus lockdown, storming to a 260% share price increase since March to become Israel's second most valuable company in ... ( read original story ...)
The Pandemic’s Global Geopolitical Aftershocks
The triple crises of geopolitical power shifts, the Covid-19 pandemic and the economic disasters that flow from it will shape global politics, restructure global supply chains and bring an end to ... ( read original story ...)
Industry accounts for over half of capital investments in Azerbaijan
Around 3.9 billion manat ($2.2 billion) was allocated from all financial sources to the fixed capital from January through April 2020 to develop the socio-economic sphere of Azerbaijan, Trend reports ... ( read original story ...)
Lebanon’s Finance Minister Ready to Resign, Local Media Says
Lebanon's Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni, a key negotiator with the IMF over a rescue plan to help Lebanon exit a financial crisis, has prepared his resignation letter and brought it with him to a ... ( read original story ...)
Saudi Arabia turns off America’s oil taps again [Opinion]
For the second time in three years, Saudi Arabia is slashing the volume of crude it’s sending to America in an attempt to force down stockpiles in the world’s most visible oil market and thereby ... ( read original story ...)
Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative (FII) to be physical, not virtual: Attias
Saudi Arabia’s fourth annual Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference will be held physically – not virtually – in late October this year, despite the challenges associated with in-person ... ( read original story ...)