Bloomberg Mongolia reached an initial agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a three-year program that includes a $440 million loan package as part of a $5.5 billion bailout to help the north Asian country with looming debt repayments. “The Asian Development Bank, the World Bank and bilateral partners including Japan and Korea are expected to provide up to …

  Bloomberg China’s securities regulator announced new curbs on how much and often the country’s public companies can issue new shares, amid concerns that a faster pace of initial public offerings will drag down the stock market. The number of shares issued in private placements can’t be more than 20 percent of a company’s total shares, the China Securities Regulatory …

  Bloomberg Billionaire Richard Li’s PCCW Ltd. plans to sell a HK$8.53 billion ($1.1 billion) stake in telecommunications unit HKT Trust & HKT Ltd., amassing cash as the Hong Kong tycoon shifts into greater media investments. The shares of both companies fell. PCCW will sell 840.7 million shares of Hong Kong’s largest phone company for HK$10.15 apiece, it said in …