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  Montreal / AFP Chinese Premier Li Keqiang called for strong relations with Canada as he wrapped up a three-day visit to the important trading partner. “We have no excuses,” Li told a Canadian-Chinese business council in Montreal. “China and Canada must have win-win cooperation.” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Li announced on Thursday an agreement to begin talks ...

  Bloomberg Hundreds of Takata Corp. airbag inflators pulled from cars in the auto industry’s biggest recall later ruptured in testing, showing the potential risks to drivers. Documents released Friday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reveal that of 245,000 recalled airbag inflators pulled from cars and tested, 660 ruptured. As many as 15 deaths worldwide have been ...

  Bloomberg An Indian court issued arrest warrants for Malaysian billionaire T. Ananda Krishnan and Ralph Marshall, deputy chairman at Krishnan-controlled Astro All Asia Networks Plc, in connection with an investigation into alleged phone-license corruption. Krishnan controls Malaysia’s Maxis Group. A court in New Delhi said on Saturday it will split the matters into separate cases for allegations against Krishnan ...

  Bloomberg Six years ago, India’s biggest share sale was in commodities. Now, as the IPO market heats up again, the key to investors’ hearts lies in finance. ICICI Prudential Life Insurance’s float has attracted strong demand, drawing orders of 10.5 times the amount of stock available to raise as much as 60.6 billion rupees ($909 million). It’s the nation’s ...

Bloomberg Korea Development Bank, the main lender to Hanjin Shipping Co., offered a conditional credit line of 50 billion won ($45 million) to help ease supply-chain disruptions caused by the collapse of the nation’s biggest container mover. The state-owned bank will extend the loan only if the funds pledged by Korean Air Lines Co., the largest shareholder, Chairman Cho Yang ...

  Reuters India is talking to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia to fill half of the 1.5 million tonnes (mt) of the Mangalore strategic storage, along with Iranian crude, its oil minister said on Wednesday. Dharmendra Pradhan told a news conference India is exploring two to three other models for sourcing oil to fill the remainder of ...

  AFP Indonesia’s central bank cut its benchmark interest rate on Thursday in a bid to boost sagging growth, given space to act thanks to the Fed’s decision not to raise the cost of borrowing. Bank Indonesia slashed the rate by 25 basis points to five percent, as expected. The bank shifted to using the current, more short-term focused benchmark ...

  AFP India may have just spent billions of dollars on hi-tech French fighter jets, but experts say it needs to do a lot more if it is going to face up to an increasingly assertive China. The world’s top defence importer has signed several big-ticket deals as part of a $100-billion upgrade since Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...

  AFP Japan’s exports tumbled and the country logged a surprise trade deficit in August, data showed, reviving concerns about the economy just before the Bank of Japan wraps up a closely watched meeting. Shipments overseas fell 9.6 percent from a year earlier as a strong yen clouds the country’s trade picture. That left a trade deficit of 18.7 billion ...

  AFP China has removed an almost 13-year-old ban on some US beef products, its quality inspection regulator said Thursday. A ban on imports of “American bone-in beef and boneless beef for cattle under 30 months” has been lifted effective immediately, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said, according to a document posted on its official website. ...