Bloomberg Palm oil inventories in Malaysia probably fell to the lowest since 2011 as demand for the vegetable oil used in everything from instant noodles to detergents surged in countries including India and China. Inventories fell 7.9 percent to 1.63 million metric tons in August from a month earlier, the lowest since March 2011, according to the median of ...

  Bloomberg China’s Finance Ministry has submitted a consumer tax overhaul proposal to the State Council, according to two people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private. The proposal is subject to change after other ministries and the State Council, China’s cabinet, give their input, one of the people said. Finance Ministry ...

  Ho Chi Minh City / AFP Recent Vietnamese graduate looking for an English-language teacher? There’s an app for that. Or hunting the best bowl of pho in your Hanoi neighbourhood? There’s now an app for that, too. A decade ago such technology would likely have been developed in California’s Silicon Valley. But today those apps are being churned out ...