Bloomberg The drive to launch new carbon exchanges in Asia has reached new heights with Malaysia entering the fray, raising questions about how many will survive in a market that could be worth hundreds of billions in a few decades. Bursa Malaysia Bhd opened an exchange this month, joining more than a dozen that are under way or planned ...

  Bloomberg India’s unemployment rate in December climbed to its highest point since a nationwide pandemic lockdown, as the country struggles to produce enough jobs to absorb a growing workforce. The joblessness rate in the first three weeks of December was over 8% of the available labour force, Mahesh Vyas, head of the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt Ltd, ...

  Bloomberg China confirmed it’s narrowed how it defines a Covid death, adding weight to speculation that its strikingly low official tally is hiding the true picture of the chaos unleashed by this month’s abrupt pandemic pivot. The country will only count people who tested positive for Covid and died of respiratory failure as official virus deaths, Wang Guiqiang, a ...