Beijing / Bloomberg China plans to spend as much as $11 billion on a second airport in the southwestern city of Chengdu to help meet growing demand for air travel in the world’s second-biggest economy. The proposed facility will have three runways, one of them as long as 4,000 meters, according to a statement posted on the website of ...

  Mumbai / Bloomberg Reliance Industries Ltd., which reported the highest quarterly profit in more than eight years on Friday, fell to the lowest in more than a month on concerns over cost-overruns and delays in projects. The shares declined as much as 2.6 percent to 1,012.30 rupees, the lowest since mid-March, and traded at 1,015 rupees as of 2:31 ...

  Bangkok / AFP Tobacco giant Philip Morris on Monday pleaded not guilty to dodging hundreds of millions of dollars in import tax to Thailand, a crime carrying a massive fine of up to $2.27 billion. Thai prosecutors accuse the local unit of the company, which owns the Marlboro and L&M brands, of evading some 20 billion baht ($568 million) ...