Bloomberg Authorities in Taiwan carried out raids and questioned a group of people on suspicion they were buying votes on behalf of China in Saturday’s island-wide election. Law-enforcement officers searched four locations and detained three people using warrants issued under the Anti-Infiltration Act, which was passed in late 2019 and bars “foreign hostile forces” from interfering in elections, Taiwan’s ...

  Bloomberg Energy regulator Ofgem will raise its price cap for the average UK home by 21% to £4,279 ($5,173) from January, underscoring the growing gap the government has to plug to maintain its price freeze. The UK has been subsidising Ofgem’s price cap since October in an attempt to shield households from the worst energy crisis in decades. That ...

  Bloomberg The European Union (EU) paused efforts to approve a package of emergency measures to curb the fallout from high natural gas prices as member states struggled to resolve a deep split over a push to cap the cost of gas. Energy ministers holding an extraordinary meeting in Brussels agreed on the content of several emergency measures, but will ...