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PUBG video game could be banned in China

Bloomberg The world’s hottest video game is set to be locked out of the biggest market. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds—where competitors fight to be the last one alive—is too violent, according to an announcement posted by the China Audio-Video and Digital Publishing Association. The gladiator-like mentality of the computer game deviates from the values of socialism and is deemed harmful to young ...

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US mall owners to reclaim retail wasteland with public money

Bloomberg At the Brookfield Square mall in Wisconsin, the landlord, CBL & Associates Properties Inc., needed a new occupant for a fading Sears. CBL had been tinkering with the mix for the past few years. Earlier, in 2008, it completed a 20,000-square-foot expansion, adding grocery stores and restaurants and renovating the interior. In the end, it found its tenant: the ...

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New rail link corridor for Asia, Europe opens

Bloomberg Azerbaijan is opening a long-delayed railway intended to cut transport times for goods between Asia and Europe. President Ilham Aliyev is due to host Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Georgian leader Giorgi Margvelashvili at a ceremony on Monday for the departure of the first train from the Caspian Sea port of Alat, south of the Azeri capital, Baku. ...

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