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Duterte to use ‘sea ruling’ to warm China relations

Bloomberg Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday with a plan to play his ace card — an international ruling that invalidated some of Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea. Duterte said he will use the Philippines’ 2016 internationaltribunal win against China, which he set aside to warm ties and tap Chinese funding, to ...

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Hong Kong good citizen applications rise as people eye exit

Bloomberg Interest from Hong Kong residents in leaving the city has surged since street protests broke out in the former British colony. About 200 people showed up at a seminar organised by InvestUK, an adviser that helps people secure investor visas to move to the UK from Hong Kong, in July compared with about 40 people usually, according to the ...

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Cameroon separatists call for lockdown

Bloomberg Separatists in Cameroon called for a lockdown in the country’s Anglophone regions after a weekend of unrest in which at least 40 people reportedly died. The call for a lockdown came a week after a military tribunal jailed 10 rebel leaders including Julius Ayuk Tabe, the self-proclaimed president of the area that separatists have labeled Ambazonia, on charges including ...

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