Bloomberg What is taxing for some in India has become brisk business for others. With seven weeks to go before the nationwide Goods and Services Tax is implemented, Indian companies are rushing to bring in experts to help prepare their accounting and information technology systems for the tax-system overhaul. That’s created a windfall for international professional services firms, including PricewaterhouseCoopers ...

Bloomberg China National Building Material Group, the nation’s biggest cement maker, aims to capitalize on a surge in business opportunities from President Xi Jinping’s “Belt and Road” initiative as projects spur an infrastructure boom in the region, according to its chairman, Song Zhiping. “If you want to get rich, build a road first,” Song said in a Bloomberg Television interview ...

Bloomberg China’s biggest-ever foreign acquisition frenzy is ending almost as dramatically as it began. After stunning the world with a record $246 billion of announced outbound takeovers in 2016, Chinese dealmakers are now struggling to cope with tighter capital controls and increasingly wary counterparties. Cross-border purchases plunged 67 percent during the first four months of this year, the biggest drop ...