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Bloomberg China’s natural gas imports from Central Asia, a long-time source of the fuel via pipeline, slipped last month, worsening a winter shortage and increasing the world’s biggest energy user’s reliance on seaborne supplies. Imports during January from Turkmenistan, China’s biggest overseas source of gas last year, dropped 14 percent from a year earlier, and 4 percent from December, data ...

Bloomberg Ghana may start locking in future prices for oil and petroleum imports from the end of March as it seeks to contain inflation, said Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta. A net exporter of crude oil, Ghana could benefit from rising prices while continuing to keep domestic costs in check by agreeing to buy fuel at pre-set prices, Ofori-Atta said in ...

Bloomberg The outlook for declining oil production in Venezuela may get grimmer if the US bans supply of a key commodity used to help Venezuelan crude flow from oilfields to the coast. Production in the Orinoco oil belt, which accounts for half of the country’s output, depends on heavy naphtha imported from the US to reach global markets. Naphtha is ...

Bloomberg Exxon Mobil Corp. has shut production platforms and a processing plant in the highlands of natural gas exp-orter Papua New Guinea after an earthquake struck the Pacific nation. The US oil giant closed the facilities to assess damage from a magnitude 7.5 earthquake early on Monday morning, it said in a statement. Administrative buildings, living quarters and a mess ...

Bloomberg Samsung Electronics Co. grabbed centre stage in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress with the unveiling of its latest flagship handset: the Galaxy S9. The South Korea-based technology giant is banking on new features such as augmented reality-based emojis, camera upgrades, and stereo speakers in a form-factor similar to 2017’s model to take on Apple Inc.’s iPhone X. It also ...

Bloomberg Major Japanese brokerages are set to raise pay for newly hired college graduates this year as competition for talent intensifies amid a rebound in retail business and a chronic labour shortage. Daiwa Securities Group Inc. plans to increase base salaries for the 600 school-leavers starting in April from the 245,000 yen ($2,300) a month their predecessors got a year ...

Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has agreed to buy the shares of food delivery startup Ele.me it doesn’t already own to boost its last mile delivery network, a person familiar with the matter said. The e-commerce giant, which owned 23 percent of Ele.me as of May, plans to buy the stock from investors including Baidu Inc., the person said, requesting ...

Bloomberg The car industry is witnessing one of its biggest disruptions since Karl Benz assembled the first automobile more than a century ago, and Li Shufu wants to play an active part in the revolution. The founder and chairman of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. has become the top shareholder in Daimler AG, the German company that traces its roots ...

Bloomberg Go East, expatriates looking to make the big bucks. Mumbai, India’s financial, commercial and entertainment capital, tops global rankings for expat salaries, according to a survey conducted by HSBC Bank International Ltd. Foreigners moving to the subcontinent’s most populous city reported average annual earnings of $217,165. That’s more than double the global expat average of $99,903, the HSBC Expat ...

Bloomberg Hinduja Group India Ltd., owned by the billionaire Hinduja brothers, is considering buying a majority stake in state-owned MauBank Ltd. of Mauritius, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. Selling control of MauBank would enable the Mauritian government to recoup some of the money its used to bail out the lender. The state has spent $182 million ...