Bloomberg An Indian court halted bankruptcy proceedings ordered two weeks ago for Reliance Communications Ltd., or RCom, after the debt-laden wireless operator and the local unit of Ericsson AB agreed to settle a dispute over unpaid dues. The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal put a freeze on the 270-day insolvency process that had been triggered by a May 15 court ...

Bloomberg Malaysia will implement a new sales tax in September to replace the consumption levy that it’s scrapping next month as Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad looks for ways to temper concerns on the nation’s budget. The government is studying a 10 percent rate for the sales and services tax, he told reporters in Putrajaya after a Cabinet meeting. Ministers also ...

Bloomberg India has pushed back a deadline to put thousands of battery-driven cars on the road by nearly a year, in a setback to its ambitions of having electric vehicles comprise about a third of its fleet by 2030. State-owned Energy Efficiency Services Ltd., which is responsible for procuring electric cars to replace the petrol and diesel vehicles used by ...