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China unveils details of 3-year pollution plan

Bloomberg China unveiled further details of its three-year environmental plan, reiterating its goal to reduce coal consumption and listing the cities where it’s targeting steel capacity curbs. Policy makers will promote natural gas use over coal in areas battling severe air pollution in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region as well as Fenhe and Weihe river plains, according to three-year plan published by ...

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HNA co-chairman Wang Jian dies in France aged 57

Bloomberg HNA Group Co., the once-acquisitive Chinese conglomerate that’s been selling billions of dollars in assets this year amid soaring borrowing costs, said that Co-chairman Wang Jian died after an accident in Provence, France. He was 57. Wang, who was on a business trip, had a fall from which he couldn’t recover, HNA said in a statement on its website. ...

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‘Sprint acquisition needs scrutiny over China links’

Bloomberg US lawmakers plan to pressure the Trump administration to closely scrutinise T-Mobile US Inc.’s planned purchase of Sprint Corp., arguing the acquisition poses a threat to American security because the owner of Sprint has ties to Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies Co. A draft letter to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who leads a US national security review of the ...

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