Bloomberg Palm oil imports by India climbed to a five-month high in June as traders and refiners in the world’s biggest buyer increased purchases to replenish stockpiles. Inbound shipments increased 45.5% from a month earlier to 562,932 tons, the Solvent Extractors’ Association of India said in an emailed statement. Purchases were 686,886 tons in June 2019. A surge in palm ...

Bloomberg ByteDance Ltd’s TikTok will pull its viral video app from Hong Kong’s mobile stores in coming days, becoming the first internet service to withdraw after Beijing enacted sweeping powers to crack down on national security threats. That announcement came after internet giants from Facebook Inc to Google and Twitter Inc voiced opposition to national security legislation that grants the ...

Bloomberg Hundreds of thousands of Chinese students enroll at US colleges and universities each year, and right now, a lot of them are concerned. As schools try to figure out how to start the fall semester amid the coronavirus pandemic, some — including Harvard University and the University of Southern California — are opting for online-only instruction. And that means ...