NEW YORK: A fresh round in the battle for equal pay will be fought at upcoming US corporate annual meetings, where investors will demand that firms reveal how much less women earn than men.The latest tactic is to use shareholder resolutions — where stock owners propose issues to be voted upon — to request companies’…
GENEVA: More efficient fuels and more sophisticated combustion engines are needed to bring down carbon dioxide pollution and to secure the long-term future of Saudi Aramco’s business, the company’s chief technology officer said on Wednesday.“The growth of transport is greater than the growth of alternative drivetrains,” Ahmad Al-Khowaiter, Chief Technology Officer at Saudi Aramco told…
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s housing minister said on Wednesday he expects investments in the real estate financing sector to reach between SR60 billion and SR80 billion ($21.33 billion) in 2019. Real estate financing for January hit SR4.7 billion, and coming months were expected to see even bigger figures, Majed Al-Hogail told Reuters on the sidelines of…
NEW YORK: A fresh round in the battle for equal pay will be fought at upcoming US corporate annual meetings, where investors will demand that firms reveal how much less women earn than men.The latest tactic is to use shareholder resolutions — where stock owners propose issues to be voted upon — to request companies’…
NEW YORK: A fresh round in the battle for equal pay will be fought at upcoming US corporate annual meetings, where investors will demand that firms reveal how much less women earn than men.The latest tactic is to use shareholder resolutions — where stock owners propose issues to be voted upon — to request companies’…
NEW DELHI: India dominated a list of the world's most polluted cities in 2018, taking 22 of the top 30 spots, according to a Greenpeace report.Air pollution is estimated to contribute to 7 million premature deaths every year and is considered by the United Nations to be the single biggest environmental health risk.While Delhi was again…
NEW DELHI: India dominated a list of the world's most polluted cities in 2018, taking 22 of the top 30 spots, according to a Greenpeace report.Air pollution is estimated to contribute to 7 million premature deaths every year and is considered by the United Nations to be the single biggest environmental health risk.While Delhi was again…
Women can defeat ‘angry white men’ in right-wing politics, UK feminist leader says LONDON: To fight a rising wave of populism that threatens to swamp women’s rights, women of diverse backgrounds need to get into politics, the outgoing head of Britain’s first feminist political party said.Sophie Walker, who resigned from the Women’s Equality Party in…
LAHORE: A spokesman for the charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), which has been linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group behind the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks, said it would go to court on Wednesday after a government crackdown closed several of its missions. On Tuesday, Pakistan’s National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) added the JuD and the Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation…
Women can defeat ‘angry white men’ in right-wing politics, UK feminist leader says LONDON: To fight a rising wave of populism that threatens to swamp women’s rights, women of diverse backgrounds need to get into politics, the outgoing head of Britain’s first feminist political party said.Sophie Walker, who resigned from the Women’s Equality Party in…
IDLIB: In Syria’s militant-controlled Idlib province, Mudar Darwish and fellow medical students clutched banners and chanted against the closure of their university. “Our future is being wasted because of unfair decisions against our university,” Darwish told the crowd gathered in the northwestern region. “We won’t allow it,” said the 28-year-old with a short beard, who has…
ANKARA: Tensions between the US and Turkey will continue in the near future, with the latest developments “ringing the alarm bell,” experts warn. Since October 2018, when a Turkish court permitted Pastor Andrew Brunson to return to the US after a two-year sentence, relations have still not reached their optimal level. Despite high-level talks over recent…
ANKARA: Tensions between the US and Turkey will continue in the near future, with the latest developments “ringing the alarm bell,” experts warn. Since October 2018, when a Turkish court permitted Pastor Andrew Brunson to return to the US after a two-year sentence, relations have still not reached their optimal level. Despite high-level talks over recent…
RIYADH: Shoppers in the Saudi capital will now be able to take in a flick after the opening of another cinema in the city. And the entertainment giant behind the project has revealed it plans to pump more than $500 million into building 600 screens in the Kingdom by 2023. VOX Cinemas on Wednesday got the…
JEDDAH: When it comes to mental arithmetic Saudi twins Emad and Muath Al-Amoudi have it all worked out. The gifted brothers have just taken the world by storm in beating off more than 9,000 other youngsters to come first and second in a major international mathematics contest. The 7th graders at Makkah-based Sheikh Abdullah Khayat Intermediate…
LONDON: Envoys from the 28 EU member states on Wednesday unanimously rejected a proposal to add Saudi Arabia and other nations and territories to the bloc’s money-laundering blacklist, sources told AFP. The ill-fated plan, which was drawn up by the EU’s executive arm, was dismissed by Saudi Arabia as well as the US and several…
Jeddah bids farewell to art-loving mayor Mohammed Said Farsi who transformed the city JEDDAH: The man credited with transforming Jeddah into an “open-air museum,” its former mayor Mohammed Said Farsi, died on Tuesday in Paris.While serving first as chairman of the Jeddah municipality and later as the city’s mayor, he installed hundreds of works of…
DUBAI: Arab influencers Lana El-Sahely and Jessica Kahawaty wrapped up Paris Fashion Week in style as they attended the final runway show of the season on Tuesday evening. Despite an exhausting schedule of shows, fittings and photoshoots, the end of fashion week did not offer either influencer a chance to relax — El-Sahely worked…
MADRID: Santiago Solari said he would not give up as coach of Real Madrid but the decision will probably not be his to make.Zinedine Zidane earned the right to decide himself and chose to leave last summer.“It would have been difficult for me to win again next year,” Zidane said in May.“There have been good…
PARIS: Global trade tensions and political uncertainty are weighing on the world’s economy, the OECD warned Wednesday, cutting its global growth forecast for this year to 3.3 percent, down from the 3.5 percent it predicted in November.The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, which groups the world’s top developed economies, also warned of potential risks…
