Bloomberg ComfortDelGro Corp., Singapore’s largest taxi company, struck a deal to buy 51 percent of Uber Technologies Inc.’s Singapore car rental unit for S$295 million ($218 million) in cash and form a joint venture with the ride-hailing giant. The deal for Uber’s Lion City Rentals will give ComfortDelGro control of a fleet of about 14,000 vehicles in the city-state, with …

Bloomberg China found some local governments inflated revenue levels and raised debt illegally in a nationwide audit, a setback for Beijing in its bid to boost the credibility of economic data after a run of scandals. Ten cities, counties or districts in the Yunnan, Hunan and Jilin provinces, as well as the southwestern city of Chongqing, inflated fiscal revenues by …

Bloomberg India’s trade ministry is seeking a cut in taxes for overseas diamond miners to boost trading in the world’s largest hub for polishing the gems, people with knowledge of the matter said. The commerce department in a letter to the finance ministry has sought to scrap levies and instead introduce a presumptive tax of 0.25 percent on diamond mining …