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Bloomberg Malaysia is making progress in talks with China to revive a high-speed rail project that Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s government said it would cancel, according to Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah. China is willing to reduce the $20 billion price tag for the East Coast Rail Link project and talks are “in the last mile,” Saifuddin said in an interview ...

Bloomberg ArcelorMittal has made an offer of 48 billion rupees ($672 million) to buy an Essar Power generation plant in India, outbidding the founding Ruia brothers, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The non-binding offer from the world’s largest steel producer to lenders of 1,200-megawatt power plant in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh compares with a ...

Bloomberg Huawei Technologies Co.’s founder Ren Zhengfei said “there’s no way the US can crush us,” according to an interview he gave to BBC. “The world cannot leave us because we are more advanced. Even if they persuade more countries not to use us temporarily, we can always scale things down a bit,” he said. The Trump Administration has been ...

Bloomberg China unveiled a sweeping plan to link Hong Kong and Macau with cities in southern China to create a so-called Greater Bay Area, aiming to transform the coastal region into a high-tech megalopolis to rival California’s Silicon Valley. The outline plan, published in Chinese by Xinhua News Agency, said the government will seek to turn the area into a ...

Bloomberg Honda Motor Co. said it plans to close its factory in the UK in the biggest blow yet to the British auto industry already buckling under thousands of job cuts and the loss of key models in the run-up to Brexit. The site in Swindon, about 80 miles west of London, is the nation’s fourth-largest auto plant and employs ...

Bloomberg European Union negotiators agreed to impose caps on carbon dioxide from trucks for the first time, stepping up the fight against climate change with a challenge to manufacturers such as Daimler AG. Representatives of EU governments and the European Parliament fixed a 30 percent CO2-reduction target for 2030 compared with 2019 levels. At a meeting that ended early on ...

Bloomberg Investor confidence in Germany’s economic outlook improved for a fourth straight month, hinting at a modest pickup in momentum in the coming months. A gauge measuring prospects for the next half year rose to minus 13.4 in February, beating an estimate for a gain to minus 13.6. While the index recorded its longest streak of improvements since early 2015, ...

Bloomberg European chocolate lovers are about to get an injection of Japanese culture, as Nestle SA’s green-tea matcha KitKat launches on the continent. The confectionery brand will begin to sell the green chocolate bar in Europe this month, 15 years after it was created in Japan. The blend of imported green-tea matcha powder with cocoa butter and white chocolate will ...

Bloomberg Siemens AG and Fortum Oyj are both offering multipart euro bond deals, adding to a rush of corporate sales this year as companies lock in low borrowing costs before potential market upheavals. German engineering giant Siemens is selling four notes maturing in as many as 20 years, while Finnish power company Fortum is offering three bonds as long as ...

Bloomberg Twitter Inc. plans to introduce extra checks and publish more information around political ads in Europe, stepping up efforts to combat disinformation online amid worries Russia or other actors could try to meddle with European Union elections in May. The EU in late January warned tech companies to intensify efforts to combat disinformation on their platforms ahead of European ...