Bloomberg Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-Ying pledged to provide more land to build apartments for low-income people in a bid to lower housing prices in the world’s least-affordable city. Only a small portion of Hong Kong’s 11 million square kilometers (6.8 million square miles) of land has been developed, and is the reason housing is expensive and land …

  Montreal / AFP Chinese Premier Li Keqiang called for strong relations with Canada as he wrapped up a three-day visit to the important trading partner. “We have no excuses,” Li told a Canadian-Chinese business council in Montreal. “China and Canada must have win-win cooperation.” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Li announced on Thursday an agreement to begin talks …

  Bloomberg Hundreds of Takata Corp. airbag inflators pulled from cars in the auto industry’s biggest recall later ruptured in testing, showing the potential risks to drivers. Documents released Friday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reveal that of 245,000 recalled airbag inflators pulled from cars and tested, 660 ruptured. As many as 15 deaths worldwide have been …