Bloomberg Indian clothes maker T.R. Vijaya Kumar thinks it’s time for his country to take on Bangladesh, Vietnam and even China for leadership in the global apparel industry. He’s a second-generation manufacturer, who’s transformed his small family undershirt business in southern India into an apparel exporter of 1,700 employees and aims to double its sales by 2020. When it ...

  Bloomberg China Overseas Land & Investment Ltd., the country’s second-largest developer by market value listed in Hong Kong, said first-half profit jumped 21 percent on gains from property sales as the nation’s residential prices soared. Net income rose to HK$19.7 billion ($2.5 billion) from HK$16.3 billion a year earlier, the company said in a Hong Kong stock exchange filing. ...

  Bloomberg Thirteen Japanese nuclear reactors were constructed with steel from the same company used in a French power plant that’s under scrutiny for anomalies found in the reactor vessel’s structure. Six utilities used steel from Japan Casting & Forging Corp., they all said in separate statements. The steelmaker was identified by Japanese authorities last month as supplying steel to ...