Bloomberg Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. profit fell 33 percent in the second quarter as the nation’s largest phone carrier booked losses for its investment in Germany-based Rocket Internet SE and as earnings from its mobile-phone, data and landline businesses were little changed. Net income was 6.25 billion pesos ($133 million) in the three months ended June, compared with …

  Bloomberg India’s liquefied natural gas buyers are being encouraged to renegotiate long-term contracts after spot prices tumbled amid a global glut. “We have asked the companies to renegotiate the LNG deals wherever there is a possibility,” Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said in an interview Monday in New Delhi. “I am hopeful our companies will successfully steer the negotiations.” India …

  Bloomberg China’s airlines, rushing to pare dollar debt as a weakening yuan adds to servicing costs, are selling local-currency bonds at the fastest pace since 2009 to trim their exposure to the greenback. The nation’s carriers, led by China Eastern Airlines Corp., have sold a combined 106.3 billion yuan ($16 billion) of bonds in the first seven months of …