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Village turns into ‘supermarket’ for illegal wildlife trade

  Bloomberg A Vietnamese village has become “a supermarket for illegal wildlife trafficking” raking in millions of dollars, a special hearing was told on Monday. The two-day public hearing in The Hague is laying out the findings of a year-long undercover investigation by the new Wildlife Justice Commission. The probe has provided “clear and irrefutable evidence of an industrial-scale crime ...

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China’s CNPC said to plan spinoff of assets with 140K workers

  Bloomberg China National Petroleum Corp. plans to spin off most non-energy assets — a portfolio comprising roughly 10 percent of its workforce — as low oil prices force the state-run behemoth to streamline, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Under a plan detailed at an internal meeting in Beijing last month, CNPC would bundle businesses employing about ...

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Wanda cinema positive on box-office slump

  Bloomberg China’s largest theater operator said a slump in box-office sales nation- wide leaves the company, which has bucked the trend at its own cinemas, in position to buy rivals at cheaper valuations. Wanda Cinema Line Co., the film exhibitor arm of billionaire Wang Jianlin’s Wanda Group, is maintaining its target to use acquisitions and organic growth to add ...

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