Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding Ltd faces complaints from six European consumer organisations into allegedly unfair user terms for its online retail service, arguing some of the clauses violate European Union law. Consumer groups, including from France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands, filed complaints with national regulators to probe “unclear” and “problematic contract terms and practices” for AliExpress users in the ...

Bloomberg The US “purely fabricated” accusations that Chinese authorities had been forcing foreign companies to transfer technology, according the flagship newspaper of the Communist Party, saying it was an old argument to suppress the country’s development. The US hasn’t been able to provide examples of cases where overseas companies had to do so despite repeated requests by China for evidence, ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s government maintained its forecast for gross domestic product growth this year at between 2 percent and 3 percent, as the city grapples with the fallout from the trade war between the US and China. In a release revising up first quarter GDP growth to 0.6 percent from a year ago, the government said the outlook is currently ...