Oil prices plunged on Tuesday as China, a major energy consumer, placed nearly 30 million people under COVID lockdown, and Hong Kong and Chinese mainland stock markets dove, while Wall Street stocks rallied. Brent oil futures finished under $100 a barrel for the first time in nearly three weeks, reflecting...

The new companies’ offices are in London, New York, and Hong Kong.

Signs of lower tensions between Russia-Ukraine have put investors at ease.

On Wall Street, the broad-based S&P 500 had its best December in over a decade, and scored a third straight year of double-digit gains with a 27.1% jump.

Under Hong Kong's rules, if an airline brings in too many infected passengers on a particular route, it is banned from flying that route for two weeks. Qatar Airways has already been banned five times for that.

The US Treasury announced the ban on Friday, saying SenseTime's facial recognition programmes were designed in part to be used against Uyghurs.

Israel's cultural capital Tel Aviv is now more expensive than Paris, Singapore, Zurich, Hong Kong and New York.

Hong Kong listing is seen as a hedge against removal from US exchanges

The report also highlights that 2014 saw the launch of the first Dubai Innovation Index, which was the first-of-its-kind city level assessment of innovation which has influenced a raft of new measures, including strategies policies and procedures introduced in areas that include public private partnerships, robotics, blockchain, artificial intelligence, the...

Saudi capital Riyadh has been ranked as the third smartest capital among the G20 member states and the 30th smartest city at the global level. Riyadh made qualitative progress on the IMD Smart Cities Index for 2021, issued by the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), as it jumped 23...

The launch of the tool is in line with the emirate’s new target to boost its foreign trade from around $380 billion to around $545 billion over the next five years.