SEOUL / AP A request by South Korean prosecutors to arrest Lee Jae-yong, the 48-year-old vice chairman and de facto leader of Samsung Electronics, has added to the troubles for the country’s most valuable company after a spate of recalls last year. Lee faces allegations he offered $36 million in bribes to a friend of President Park Geun-hye, who …

  Bloomberg Indian dollar-denominated bond sales are set to accelerate in 2017 as mergers and acquisitions and the cheapest borrowing costs in more than two years drive issuance. That’s a contrast to 2016 when sales of US currency notes by local borrowers fell to a six-year low as higher US interest rates and a slump in the rupee to a …

  HONG KONG / AP A group led by Hong Kong billionaire tycoon Li Ka-shing’s infrastructure business said on Monday it is buying Australian energy company Duet in a multibillion dollar deal. Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd. and Li’s property and power utility companies are proposing to buy Duet Group for 3 Australian dollars a share, in an acquisition worth …