Bloomberg The chairman of Huawei Technologies Co. says the company would “never do anything to harm any country, any organisation or any individual,” according to an interview in the Globe and Mail. Technological divisions between countries with different ideologies “would not be beneficial for humanity, nor for technological progress,” Liang Hua said in an interview at Huawei’s headquarters in Shenzhen, ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s retail sales missed estimates in December, as a slowing mainland economy dampened consumer sentiment and the surge in cross-border tourists failed to translate into a spending bump. The city’s retail sales by value expanded 0.1 percent last month from a year earlier, compared with the median estimate of 1.4 percent among six analysts surveyed by Bloomberg and ...

Bloomberg Malaysia has asked the World Health Organisation (WHO) to retract a report that says the palm oil industry is deploying tactics similar to tobacco lobbyists to influence research into the health effects of its products. The report, published in the Bulletin of WHO, makes claims that “casts aspersions on the reputation of our scientists and researchers” and ignores findings ...