Bloomberg SoftBank Group Corp.’s Masayoshi Son has a 300-year plan, so if combining Sprint Corp. and T-Mobile US Inc. takes a few years longer than he hoped, that’s OK. Son, who became one of the world’s wealthiest men by turning Tokyo-based SoftBank into a telecommunications and technology powerhouse, still would like to merge the U.S. wireless providers, according to ...

  Manila / Bloomberg The Philippines economy grew faster than economists predicted last quarter, giving a boost to new President Rodrigo Duterte as he seeks to attract more investment and speed up infrastructure spending. Gross domestic product increased 7 percent in the three months through June from a year earlier, the fastest pace since the same period in 2013, the ...

  Tokyo / AFP India’s soybean output may rebound from an 11-year low as ample rain and sunshine boosts crop development, according to the Soybean Processors Association of India. Production may top the 6.93 million metric tons harvested in 2015-16 if current favorable weather continues next month, Chairman Davish Jain said by phone from Indore. That was the smallest crop ...