{"id":19634,"date":"2018-10-24T08:22:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19634"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:22:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:22:35","slug":"softbank-ceo-masayoshi-son-is-skipping-the-entire-saudi-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19634","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is skipping the entire Saudi summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (CNN Business)<\/cite>Masayoshi Son, the tech tycoon who has spent billions of Saudi money, is staying away from the kingdom&#8217;s major investment summit this week.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The founder and CEO of Japanese tech company SoftBank (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=SFTBY\">SFTBY<\/a>) won&#8217;t attend the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, a person familiar with the matter told CNN on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Dozens of other top business leaders have canceled plans to take part in the event, which is widely known as &#8220;Davos in the desert,&#8221; following international uproar over the killing of Saudi journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/23\/middleeast\/turkey-erdogan-khashoggi-intl\/index.html.\">Jamal Khashoggi<\/a>. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (CNN Business)Masayoshi Son, the tech tycoon who has spent billions of Saudi money, is staying away from the kingdom&#8217;s major investment summit this week.The founder and CEO of Japanese tech company SoftBank (SFTBY) won&#8217;t attend the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, a person familiar with the matter told CNN on Wednesday.Dozens of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}