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‘Karma’ catches up with one of India’s most storied families

Bloomberg The tumultuous saga of former Indian billionaires Malvinder and Shivinder Singh seems to be entering a decisive stage. Scions of one of the nation’s most prominent business families, the Singh brothers were arrested and brought into a New Delhi trial court to face charges of fraudulently diverting nearly $337 million from a lender they controlled. The arrests send a ...

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‘Shoppers prefer malls over mobile in Philippines’

Bloomberg Holiday shoppers in the Philippines — which has some of Asia’s biggest malls — prefer to buy products in stores over mobile shopping, according to a study commissioned by Facebook Inc. Almost four in 10 Filipinos said in-store shopping is their first choice for the holidays, according to a study conducted by Ipsos Marketing and released by Facebook last ...

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LNG shipping costs soaring

Bloomberg The cost of chartering a liquefied natural gas vessel on the short-term market has jumped the most since at least 2013. The day rate for a standard tanker East of the Suez Canal jumped 57% in the week to October 9, as issues related to US sanctions on units of China’s Cosco Shipping Corp. start to hit just as ...

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