World Business

World Business was a weekly half hour features programme on CNBC presented by Raya Abirached. The show covered recent trends in global business, technology, luxury markets and the business of sport. The programme aired in Europe on Friday nights and in Asia on Saturday mornings.

World Business was cancelled after it was revealed that the show's production company was doubling as a public relations firm for Malaysian politicians, including Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud. The Sarawak Report, a blog run by Clare Rewcastle Brown, reported that FBC Media had been receiving payments from Malaysian politicians in return for positive coverage, including carrying puff pieces on the programme to improve Taib's international image.

References

External links

  • Official website
  • World Business's channel on YouTube

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    Jeans, whiskey and ... cricket balls: UK ministers draw up mammoth 400-page list of US ...

    The Daily Mail 03 Apr 2025
    The UK was hit with a general 10 per cent tariff on exports to the US under the president's 'Make America Wealthy Again' plan, which has caused stock markets to plummet around the world. Sir Keir Starmer and Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds are still trying to hammer out a trade deal that would remove the tariffs....
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    Business secretary urges MPs to keep calm as UK gauges response to Trump tariffs – video

    The Guardian 03 Apr 2025
    ... with businesses and would be open to a trade deal with the US on favourable terms....
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    UAE’s CEPA with Costa Rica, Mauritius come into force

    The Gulf Time 02 Apr 2025
    As the nation seeks to increase its foreign trade to AED4 trillion ($1.1 trillion), it currently has twelve further deals signed and awaiting ... The CEPA programme currently has 27 concluded deals, expanding access for UAE businesses to over a quarter of the world’s population....
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    UAE’s Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreements with Costa Rica and Mauritius come into force

    Khaleejtimes 02 Apr 2025
    As the nation seeks to increase its foreign trade to Dh4 trillion ($1.1 trillion), it currently has 12 further deals signed and awaiting ... The Cepa programme currently has 27 concluded deals, expanding access for UAE businesses to over a quarter of the world’s population. ....
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    UAE’s Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreements with Costa Rica, Mauritius come into force

    Urdu Point 02 Apr 2025
    The CEPA programme currently has 27 concluded deals, expanding access for UAE businesses to over a quarter of the world’s population.</p><p>The UAE-Costa Rica CEPA, which was signed April 2024, builds on non-oil trade of more than US$82.6 million in 2024, following substantial growth of 27.5% compared 2023....
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    Trump wants to rescue US jobs but ‘America first’ will plunge the world into recession

    The Daily Telegraph 02 Apr 2025
    Rewind just a couple of months, and the mood music among business leaders at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, was little short of ecstatic ... ‘A couple of months business leaders at the World Economic Forum’s meeting in Davos, Switzerland were little short of ecstatic’ Credit....
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    David Hockney’s curator: ‘His life has not necessarily been perfect but he finds joy in his paintings’

    The Daily Telegraph 02 Apr 2025
    Dogmatic, radical and tempestuous, with a particular facility for upsetting people, the curator and art historian Sir Norman Rosenthal – “just Norman, please” – has been one of the most important and influential figures in the British art world for more than 50 years ... We don’t talk a great deal – maybe a little about the world or whatever....
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    Keir Starmer 'won't hit back' at looming Trump tariffs as he vows a 'calm response' ...

    The Daily Mail 01 Apr 2025
    ... Day' - when he has vowed to impose huge levies on imports from around the world. Britain has been frantically trying to negotiate a deal to dodge the tariffs, but Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds acknowledged this morning that there will be 'no exemptions' initially....
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    “Donna Langley trusts us”: Focus Features’ Peter Kujawski on Universal relationship, ‘Conclave’, ‘Nosferatu’ success, and why a film is never ‘content’

    Screen Daily 31 Mar 2025
    A Focus film is never “content”, which I consider the most insidious word in the media business these days ... We’ve had great luck on repeat business ... Yes, in the world of studio business affairs some filmmakers have final cut in the deal and some do not ... Our international deal ballasted the financiers of that film to actually greenlight it....
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    What do you know about money? (2): The Real Capital

    B & FT Online 31 Mar 2025
    With that intact, the person who you are dealing with can conveniently vouch for you and even guarantee on your behalf for another supplier to expand your business ... million annually, with a total of over $2 billion in earnings, largely through royalties and various business deals....
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    Bill Sweeney has run out of chances - here are the four things he must ...

    The Daily Mail 29 Mar 2025
    Sport is a tough business ... The RFU likes to think of itself as a world-leading sporting governing body ... They must compare themselves with the world’s top sporting bodies and businesses and most importantly, always be totally transparent in all their dealings ... The RFU is the world’s richest union....
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    ‘Signalgate’ proves that DC never lets a ‘crisis’ — serious or not — go to waste

    The Hill 27 Mar 2025
    who never have any intention of letting any crisis go to waste, serious or not ... Yikes ... Those who read Trump’s mega-bestselling real-world business book “The Art of the Deal” realize that the president is also very skilled in using the “power of negative thinking.” Meaning sometimes it is best to assume the worst and work your way back ... .......

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