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...Derek Chollet, a top US state department official, said Washington was “convinced” China was building a base at Ream on Cambodia’s Gulf of Thailand coast....
...One, according to court papers filed by Black’s lawyers, is dated July 6 and reads: “This is love. I need you.”...
...Miles JohnsonTo start the US legal case against Kinahan, they’re gonna have to find him so they can serve him the papers....
...Dubai developers are dusting off plans for long-dormant projects as demand for luxury property surges from a wave of wealthy arrivals to the Gulf city-state....
...manufacture it in the Gulf state....
...Fossil fuels have provided unimaginable wealth, leading to economic modernisation and prosperity in some countries, including the Gulf states....
...When she addressed the Munich Security Conference earlier this year, there was an obvious gulf between her and Biden on China....
...“All we’re going to ask is that the wealthiest among us and the major corporations just begin to pay their fair share,” he said....
...The member states could cede more power over immigration, corporation tax, and the regulation of capital, services and digital markets to EU institutions....
...(FT) Ritz buyer revealed The unnamed Qatari investor who agreed to buy London’s Ritz Hotel from the billionaire Barclay family last month has been revealed as the brother-in-law of the Gulf state’s ruler...
...The Big Three are on course to control 40 per cent of the votes in American corporations in a couple of decades....
...suggests (Bloomberg) States Look for New Ways to Recycle Your Plastic and Paper (WSJ)...
...(Many states have higher minimum wages than the federal government.)...
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...One banker advising the UK government — which has earmarked £330bn for corporate loan guarantees and a commercial paper financing facility — says the schemes are untested....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...As Murad and the FT’s Andrew England explain in this big read, there are fears that Gulf states are using their investment in sport to portray a softer image despite their poor human rights record....
...The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), the state group that manages the country’s universal healthcare, has a poor record in collecting premiums, managing an average 73 per cent over the...
...The lawsuit is a stark example of the use of non-competes by large corporations, even against low-level hourly wage workers....
...The era in which multinational corporations can simply fly 35,000 feet over the problems of various nation states is ending....
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...companies are represented in the business delegation, including Freepoint Commodities, which is working on a deal with Sinopec and ArcLight Capital Partners to bring more crude oil from west Texas to the Gulf...
...Two charts in the appendix of the paper are particularly striking....
...Mr Tillerson said he was hopeful about the chances of resolving the dispute between Qatar and its neighbours despite a renewed war of words between the Gulf states....
...A third distinction between China’s present and Japan’s past is the unique nature of the Chinese party-state. Two-thirds of corporate debt is owed by state-owned enterprises to state-owned banks....
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