Bloomberg India’s government has signaled it will press ahead with the roll out of a goods and services tax on July 1, pushing back against speculation it’s considering delaying the launch of one of its flagship reforms. “The rumors about GST implementation being delayed are false,” Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia said in a Twitter post on Tuesday. “Please do not …

Bloomberg As the Union Jack fluttered over Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour for the last time on June 30, 1997, home prices were hovering near record highs and sellout crowds at new projects were the norm. Twenty years on, property price have hit fresh records and buyers are still thronging to buy new apartments. This time around, the boom has been …

Bloomberg China’s next batch of economic data is expected to signal that consumption remained steady while industrial momentum softened a bit in the world’s second-largest economy. Data on Wednesday will show retail sales growth was unchanged last month while growth in factory output and investment both edged down for a second month, economists say. That would reinforce expectations that economic …