While Antwerp is losing its moniker as the diamond capital of the world, Russia is merely redirecting supplies to other buyers, including India, the UAE and China, which are benefiting from these ...

a futuristic admin centre for the new container port. Built by the Anglo-Iraqi starchitect, Zaha Hadid, it resembles a gigantic jewel (a reference to Antwerp’s diamond trade). It opened in 2016 ...

The US is the world’s largest customer of the stone ... chief executive of the Antwerp Diamond Centre said. "It’s disrupting the industry," she told the Financial Times, adding how it makes ...

More than $100 million in diamonds were stolen from the Antwerp World Diamond Centre in Belgium. Most recently, this daring robbery was revisited in Gerard Butler’s Den of Thieves 2: Pantera.

Quietly, discreetly, €37bil (RM173.6bil) changes hands here every year, according to the Antwerp World Diamond Centre.