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India’s Rcom to lose cable unit in setback for revamp efforts

Bloomberg Indian telecom operator Reliance Communications Ltd will lose control of its undersea cable unit GCX Ltd after a Delaware Court approved a creditor-supported Chapter 11 plan for the subsidiary, in a setback to its own closely-watched bankruptcy process. The plan that got the nod this week will grant ownership of GCX to its own creditors in exchange for a ...

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Japan to restart JIC, seeks 100 billion yen in budget

Bloomberg Japan is planning to restart operations at Japan Investment Corp and will seek a budget of about 100 billion yen ($921 million) for the public-private fund, Nikkei reported. The budget for JIC, which stopped activity in late 2018 because of a rift between the fund and the government over salaries, could come from Japan’s fiscal investment and loan program, ...

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Firms pay $2,500-an-hour to avoid China blacklist

Bloomberg China Railway Construction Corp deployed thousands of workers over four years to build part of a coal-carrying line from Inner Mongolia to Jiangxi province — about the same distance as midtown Manhattan to Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. The project cost about 200 billion yuan ($28 billion) in total and was heralded by state media in 2018 as ...

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