Bloomberg Singapore Inc. is stirring, with companies from real estate to engineering becoming bolder in their hunt for acquisitions abroad. Companies in the city-state announced around $91 billion of overseas deals this year through September, more than double the $41.9 billion of transactions for the same period of 2017, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Temasek Holdings Pte and GIC Pte ...

Bloomberg Malaysia intensified its efforts to rein in spending by reducing the cost of an almost $14-billion mass-rapid transit project, as Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad reviews programs he says his predecessor kicked off under unfair terms. The Finance Ministry shaved 5.22 billion ringgit ($1.3 billion) from the above-ground portion of the nation’s MRT2 project, accepting a new construction tender by ...

Bloomberg China’s foreign-currency holdings fell in September, as heightened trade tensions with the US fueled concerns of capital outflow and further yuan depreciation. Reserves declined by $22.69 billion to $3.087 trillion in September, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said on Sunday. That compares with $3.110 trillion the previous month and the median estimate of $3.105 trillion in a Bloomberg ...