International News

Bloomberg Singapore’s economy expanded at a faster pace in the third quarter than earlier estimated, with the city-state projecting the recovery will take hold next year. The final reading of gross domestic product showed the economy grew an annualised 2.1% in the third quarter from the previous three months, versus a previous projection of 0.6%, the Ministry of Trade & ...

Bloomberg India’s prime minister Narendra Modi is putting the flagging economy back on centre stage after announcing the biggest privatisation drive in more than a decade and making renewed attempts to ring fence the crisis-ridden shadow banking sector. The country is in the midst of a deepening slowdown amid waning consumption — the bedrock of the $2.7 trillion economy. And ...

Bloomberg Vietnam wants its importers to ensure that what they’re bringing into the country won’t contain a disputed South China Sea map that’s been spotted in items from vehicle navigation to solar inverter software. The ministry of industry and trade, in a statement on the website, said companies must review contracts and improve their monitoring of the imported goods. For ...

Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has attracted about 200,000 investors to apply for the retail portion of its Hong Kong share sale, Hong Kong Economic Times reported, citing unidentified sources. It would make Alibaba the most popular listing of the year by the number of subscribers, the paper said, while adding that the number of retail buyers is less than ...

Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has raised about HK$88 billion ($11.2 billion) in its Hong Kong share sale, marking the biggest equity offering in the financial hub since 2010. The company confirmed that it has priced 500 million new shares at HK$176 each in a statement. The price represents a 2.9% discount to the last close of Alibaba’s American depository ...

Bloomberg Piramal Enterprises Ltd, a company controlled by Indian billionaire Ajay Piramal, has offered to repay a 15 billion rupee ($208 million) debt to Standard Chartered Plc early after getting a waiver on a covenant, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The flagship company of the group — which runs non-bank financiers and a drug maker — hasn’t ...

Bloomberg Japan’s exports suffered their largest drop in three years in October, as the US-China trade war continued to hit global demand and extreme weather disrupted output at home. Exports fell 9.2% from a year ago, dropping for an 11th month and extending the longest streak of monthly declines since 2016, Ministry of Finance data showed. Economists had forecast a ...

Bloomberg India is planning to offer 324 companies including Tesla Inc and GlaxoSmithKline Plc incentives to set up factories in the South Asian nation in a bid to capitalise from the trade war between China and the US, according to a document seen by Bloomberg. The government proposes to provide the manufacturers land to set up a factory along with ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump’s effort to tout US economic growth will clash with his trade war when he visits an Apple Inc factory in Texas, where Tim Cook will probably plead in-person to keep Macs and iPhones free from tariffs. Trump’s visit to the Austin factory, where Apple contractor Flex Ltd assembles some of the company’s laptops, is intended to highlight ...

Bloomberg Wirecard AG said it followed all reporting obligations properly amid renewed concerns about its accounting practices related to a delayed audit of the German company’s accounts in Singapore. Ernst & Young couldn’t form a “final audit opinion” on the Singapore operations based on local SFRS accounting standards because the firm couldn’t access all documents due to restrictions from an ...