For paid subscribers: Coffee is increasingly used to burnish the United Arab Emirates’ international image. Now it is being supercharged by merging with the popularity of the Dubai chocolate trend.
The coffee scene in Dubai is thriving, and the city is set to welcome the Specialty Coffee Association’s World of Coffee event next month. But underneath the glitzy facade and marketing buzz lies a moral quagmire.
On this week’s Coffee News Roundup: Vietnam’s robusta reserves shrink in yet more bad news for the world’s coffee supplies. Meanwhile, Starbucks allegedly illegally withheld raises from unionized workers per a new complaint from the NLRB, and Papua New Guinea just announced a new post: Minister of Coffee.
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