Bloomberg In a meeting that was unthinkable 19 months ago, South Korea’s president will this week introduce the head of the country’s biggest conglomerate to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang. The parley caps a remarkable period for Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., who since the start of 2017 has been arrested, tried and jailed before ...

Bloomberg India again deferred the imposition of retaliatory tariffs on some US imports, signaling its readiness to find a solution to avert a trade war in contrast to the path China has taken. The tariff plan has been deferred to November 2, according to a notification from the finance ministry. New Delhi had previously planned to levy higher tariffs effective ...

Bloomberg WuXi AppTec Co., the Chinese contract medical researcher, has submitted an application for a Hong Kong share sale, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The offering could raise more than $1 billion, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private. The Shanghai-listed shares of WuXi AppTec have nearly quadrupled since they began ...