Aramco may have grabbed the biggest headlines, but the oil giant’s delayed initial public offering is just the latest sign of Saudi Arabia’s slowing privatisation push.

Iran has written to fellow Opec members to complain that some countries are conducting oil production policy unilaterally, laying bare fissures in the group as officials prepare to meet in Algiers this weekend.

HE the Minister of Transport and Communications Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti visited Qatar’s pavilion at the Seatrade Cruise Med exhibition, which opened in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon on Wednesday.

For a decade, the US and other major powers squeezed Iran’s economy to force it to rein in its nuclear programme. Most sanctions on Iran were lifted in early 2016 under a multilateral agreement to limit and monitor the country’s nuclear activities.

Aggressive and undiplomatic, certainly, but also extremely effective. With nearly 50 days to go before new US oil sanctions against Iran enter into force, President Donald Trump has already managed to crush the country’s petroleum exports, dealing severe economic damage to Tehran.

Software major Infosys would offer scalable services and solutions on demand to global enterprises on search engine’s Google cloud platform, the IT major said yesterday.

Good things come to those who wait.

China’s government is grappling with an inconvenient truth: you can’t cut taxes, boost spending and reduce the budget deficit all at the same time.

Twenty-year-old Hua Xia waits patiently in a Beijing conference hall for his chance to chat about alien invasions with Liu Cixin, China’s most-popular science fiction writer who counts Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg among his readers.

China has called off planned trade talks with the US and is unlikely to sit down with Washington until after the mid-term elections, according to people familiar with the situation.

Bangkok’s main airport is planning to add a $1.3bn terminal with extensive wooden cladding and a forested landscape, spurring concern about fire risk.

Property developers are cutting prices in Hong Kong to lure buyers amid the increasing downside risks in the world’s least-affordable housing market.