Bloomberg Cox & Kings Ltd, the Indian travel company, is exploring a potential sale of European hospitality chain Meininger Hotels as it seeks to cut debt, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The company is working with Lazard Ltd to gauge interest from potential suitors for Berlin-based Meininger, said the people, who asked not to be identified because ...

Bloomberg An army of drones deployed to fight a crop-devouring pest in a southern area of China has recorded a mortality rate of as high as 98 percent, according to the manufacturer. XAG, a Guangzhou-based drone maker, teamed up with Germany’s Bayer Crop Science in a drone swarm operation to kill the fall armyworm in China’s Guangxi region. The autonomous ...

Bloomberg Manufacturing across vast parts of Europe and Asia remain deeply mired in a crisis that took another turn for the worse over the weekend. One day after the US and China enacted new tariffs on each other’s imports, factories from Germany and Italy to Japan, South Korea and Taiwan sent a gloomy reminder that they are suffering badly from ...