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Bloomberg JD Health International Inc is looking to raise as much as $3.5 billion in its Hong Kong initial public offering in what would be Asia’s biggest health-care listing on record. The healthcare unit of China’s No. 2 e-commerce giant JD.com Inc is selling 381.9 million shares at HK$62.8 to HK$70.58 each, according to terms of the deal obtained by ...

Bloomberg Indian Hotels Co, the luxury hotel chain run by the Tata Group, used the coronavirus-imposed lockdown to see where it could save costs. “This was the historic opportunity to review our fixed and variable costs,” CEO Puneet Chhatwal said. “The industry never experienced such a revenue decline in last 100 years.” The firm, which owns the iconic Taj brand ...

Bloomberg The Hong Kong government is scrapping an extra stamp duty levied on commercial property purchases in an effort to bring the lackluster market back to life. The government will abolish the additional duty for non-residential properties effective from Thursday, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said during a speech. The levy of as much as 8.5% of a property’s value was ...

Bloomberg The Philippines has set a price cap for Covid-19 swab tests amid complaints of exorbitant and wide price disparity, Health Secretary Francisco Duque said. The price for real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction or RT-PCR test is capped at 5,000 pesos ($104) in private hospitals and 3,800 pesos in government laboratories, Duque said in a briefing. Some testing centres ...

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc is doling out hiring bonuses as high as $3,000 to make sure it has enough people to squeak through the busy holiday shopping season. That’s stoking resentment among existing workers who recently got coupons for Thanksgiving turkeys as a thank you for their hard work. Social-media chatrooms where Amazon workers congregate have lit up. One worker shared ...

Bloomberg The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) affirmed its decision to designate ZTE Corp as a national security threat over concerns telecommunications gear made by the Chinese company could be used for spying. The action shows that the FCC remains determined to drive ZTE and fellow Shenzhen-based manufacturer Huawei Technologies Co from the US market, where small rural carriers rely ...

Bloomberg The UK lost a “crucial month” in its fight against coronavirus because it was too slow to respond to a shortage of ventilators, while the delay in sourcing protective equipment came at a cost of 10 billion pounds ($13.3 billion) to the taxpayer, according to two spending reports. Ministers only started efforts to buy more ventilators on March 3, ...

Bloomberg International Business Machines (IBM) Corp is planning to cut about 10,000 jobs in Europe in an attempt to lower costs at its slow-growth services unit and prepare the business for a spinoff. The wide-ranging losses will affect about 20% of staff in the region, according to people familiar with the matter. The UK and Germany are set to be ...

Bloomberg Dell Technologies Inc and HP Inc reported quarterly revenue that topped Wall Street estimates, lifted by customer upgrades of personal computers for remote work and school during the pandemic. Dell’s sales climbed 2.8% to $23.5 billion in the period that ended on October 30, the Round Rock, Texas-based company said Tuesday in a statement. Rival HP reported it shipped ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Economy (MoE) announced the development of a strategic plan and initiatives within the framework of its role in supporting the efforts to combat money laundering practices in the country. MoE is the authority entrusted by the UAE Cabinet with the supervision of designated non-financial businesses and professions sector at the national level and ...