Bloomberg Hutchison China MediTech Ltd., the biotechnology company backed by billionaire Li Ka-shing, reported positive late-stage results for its drug to treat colorectal cancer, taking the company one step closer to having a home-grown therapy on the market. The Hong Kong-based company, known as Chi-Med, said in a statement that it is currently preparing to submit a new drug …

  Bloomberg China has the economic power to move markets, and it isn’t afraid to use it. South Korean stock trading offered a case in point, with a selloff in hotels, cosmetic makers and other tourism-related companies that made the country’s benchmark the worst performer among Asian equity markets. The slide followed a Yonhap news agency report on China ordering …

  Bloomberg Mobile World Congress, the premier wireless-technology conference in Barcelona, was supposed to be a coming out party for Google’s digital assistant. But at this year’s proceedings, artificially intelligent voice-based service struggled to be heard above the din of an army of rival assistants that will jostle for attention on smartphones. As the event kicked off, the search giant …