Banks in the Emirates are finding lucrative opportunities in the shift in the oil trade towards Asia as the US shale gas revolution diminishes the importance of the world's largest economy to the Middle East. Read Article UAE banks follow oil to the East
Building Brics: While consumers creatively sidestep lenders' fees, the Chinese premier wants to break their hold on power. But the piles of bad debt held by the biggest institutions will make any major reforms a significant challenge. Read Article Bid to slay Chinese lending dragons
Money sent home by Chinese companies from the Middle East surged seven-fold in the first six months of the year, underscoring the deepening relationship between the UAE and the world's second-largest economy. Read Article Remittance surge as ties with China strengthen
ICBC, the world's biggest bank, reports a doubling of profits and reveals its ambitions to take on the UAE's retail banks in courting Chinese customers. Read Article Chinese bank ICBC heads to UAE
With China's inflation, how can price stability be maintained without threatening the country's booming growth? Reconciling growth and fighting inflation is not impossible, but it does require that the government overcome its deep-seated suspicion of opening China's markets to imports. Read Article China should import its way out of an inflation crisis
The United States and the Afghan government announce they will hold talks with the Taliban in Doha this week aimed at achieving peace in Afghanistan. US to hold peace talks with Taliban
More than 200,000 people marched across the country to vent their anger at the government's lavish spending in demonstrations which were initially triggered by a rise in bus fares. Brazil hit by largest protests in 20 years
A culinary map of the variety of Indian food organised by Indian states in just the two-kilometre radius of Karama in Dubai - often billed Little India. With map. A guide to Karama's Indian restaurants state by state
The days of taking one picture at a time on real film, rather than a disk, have never lost their romance. Neither have the images, a website is proving. Rym Ghazal reports Snapshots tell of the way we were
