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Asia’s newest trillion-dollar economy faces bittersweet win

Bloomberg Indonesia is on track to become a trillion-dollar economy and should be the envy of Southeast Asia. Yet on some key measures, the region’s biggest economy is falling behind. The nation lags neighbours on infrastructure development, faces a fiscal shortfall that’s heaping pressure on the state budget and still has 28 million people living in poverty. That’s even after ...

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Li’s Hong Kong tower sells for record $5.15bn

Bloomberg Li Ka-Shing’s CK Asset Holdings Ltd. sold its 75 percent holding in The Center to a Chinese-led group for $5.15 billion, a record for a Hong Kong office tower, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported. The deal will be announced in the near future, the Economic Journal reported, without saying where it got the information. Some domestic investors are ...

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Hunting for deals, China dairy giants shake scandal

Bloomberg A decade after Chinese dairy companies were roiled by a scandal that poisoned thousands of children, investors are seeing the biggest players as safe bets. Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co. and China Mengniu Dairy Co. have soared to all-time highs as the companies hunt aggressively to build up their milk supply chains through foreign acquisition. Also underpinning the ...

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