Bloomberg Indonesia said it will crack down on trash imported from the world’s richest countries after closer inspections showed it’s increasingly the recipient of toxic waste materials. Authorities at ports have boosted checks after a random inspection in May led to the discovery of more than 80 containers containing illegal waste from the US, Australia and Europe. One of Australia’s ...

Bloomberg India is contemplating organising an annual global investors’ meet in the country, akin to the World Economic Forum in the alpine resort of Davos, to carve out a bigger global role for itself. The move will help create a niche for Asia’s third-biggest economy within the international financial system, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in her budget speech. China ...

Bloomberg Grameenphone, the Bangladesh division of Norway’s Telenor Group, said the local telecom regulator’s move to restrict internet bandwidth for its services was “illegal”, as the company continues to pursue arbitration over an audit demand of nearly $1.5 billion. Bangladesh’s largest mobile company said at a press conference the regulator’s move to restrict internet access was “specially designed to put ...