Cross-border Shopping Hits HK, Singapore Retail
Hong Kong and Singapore face extensive retail leakage, with residents in Asia’s top financial hubs preferring to shop and dine across their borders – Shenzhen for Hongkongers and Johor Bahru.
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- May 22, 2024
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AI-enabled Sharia Compliant Fund Launched
Trading and investing platform eToro has partnered with Arabesque AI, an investment advisory and technology company, to launch a new Sharia-compliant portfolio for users in the Middle East. Named ShariaAI-Growth,.
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- May 22, 2024
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Luxury Labels Eye Wealthy Tourists Outside France
Luxury retailers in European cities outside France are jockeying for business from deep-pocketed tourists this summer, betting on a surge in visitors avoiding crowds and street closures in Paris during.
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- May 22, 2024
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Tepid Germany Property Market Sparks Concern
International investors are skirting German property deals as they dial back on a market in its worst crisis in a generation, potentially deepening the scars on Europe’s biggest economy. Foreign.
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- May 21, 2024
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Europe Experiences Slow Growth in Airfare
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary has said that a “recessionary feel around Europe” could be a factor in slower-than-expected growth in airfares as the low-cost carrier posted record annual profits slightly.
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- May 21, 2024
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PolyAI Raises 46m Euros in Series C Funding
, backed by new investors Hedosophia, NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm) and Zendesk, with follow-on investments from Khosla Ventures, Georgian, Point72 Ventures, Sands Capital and Passion Capital. With this raise,.
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- May 21, 2024
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AstraZeneca to Build $1.5b Cancer Drug Plant
AstraZeneca plans to build a $1.5 billion manufacturing facility in Singapore to produce a promising category of cancer-killing drugs called antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker has said. The facility,.
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- May 20, 2024
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Driving Change with Responsible Leadership
In a rapidly evolving landscape where technology and leadership intersect to shape the future, Jayanta Lahiri emerges as a beacon of clear vision and pragmatic insights into technology’s societal impact..
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- May 20, 2024
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Veolia to Engineer Largest Solar Desalination Plant
Veolia, world water technology leader, through its subsidiary SIDEM, will engineer and supply key technology for the Hassyan seawater desalination plant in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Commissioned by Dubai.
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- May 20, 2024
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Qatar to Test Air Taxi Service Early Next Year
Qatar’s Ministry of Transport has announced plans to test the services of the electric air taxi and electric delivery planes in early 2025. In a statement, the Ministry said that.
