Bloomberg More than 54,000 people were moved to safer ground in the Philippine capital and nearby provinces, while calls for help swamped social media as monsoon rain triggered floods reminiscent of Typhoon Ketsana, which killed hundreds of people in Metro Manila in 2009. Marikina City implemented forced evacuations affecting at least 21,000 people after its river, the catch basin of ...

Bloomberg A panel of Indian ministers will meet to consider objections by several departments against an Asian trade pact spearheaded by Beijing citing fears of a flood of Chinese imports, people with knowledge of the matter said. The group headed by Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu will meet on August 10 to discuss concerns flagged by the ministries of steel, pharmaceuticals, ...

Bloomberg Generic drugmakers are being crushed by the very forces that the Trump administration is counting on to drive down prescription costs. While policy makers are betting that opening the market to a deluge of new medicines and reforming the drug supply chain will help contain rising prices, many widely used copycat medications are already seeing their prices fall at ...