Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is opening its oldest online platform to US merchants, promising to help American businesses at a time US-Chinese tensions are darkening the outlook for global trade. The Chinese e-commerce giant opened up Alibaba.com to US sellers for the first time, allowing them to peddle to buyers around the world who seek merchandise to stock shelves ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s railway operator said trains had resumed normal service after a small group of anti-government protesters disrupted the city’s notoriously busy morning rush, stranding crowds of commuters on platforms at a main station. Trains on the Island Line, which cuts through the the city’s financial center, had returned to their regular schedule, the MTR Corp, Hong Kong’s urban ...

Bloomberg Japan’s Tepco said its board will decide to permanently shut a nuclear power plant near its wrecked Fukushima Dai-Ichi station amid regional opposition to its use following the 2011 disaster. The utility, officially known as Tokyo Electric Power Co, told Fukushima Governor Masao Uchibori that it will decommission the four reactors at the Fukushima Dai-Ni facility, which survived damage ...