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Jho Low’s presence at 1MDB meeting erased from report

Bloomberg Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho’s appearance at a 1MDB board meeting was scrubbed from a government’s audit report on the troubled state firm, the auditor general said. The removal was done at the request of the then-principal secretary to former Prime Minister Najib Razak, a week before the document was presented to a select parliamentary committee in March 2016, ...

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S’pore malls try big gambit before online shopping catches on

Bloomberg Online shopping in Singapore is lackluster even after Amazon Inc. debuted its Prime service in mid-2017. The island’s malls are trying hard to keep it that way. With some of the nation’s biggest mall operators reporting falling rents and rising vacancies, landlords, just like those elsewhere in Asia and the US, are being forced to reposition. They’re making room ...

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UK’s other Brexit fight may bar it from $1.7trn WTO deal

Bloomberg UK businesses stand to lose access to a $1.7 trillion public procurement market if signatories to a World Trade Organization (WTO) accord this week block Britain’s application for membership, which will lapse after it leaves the European Union in March. On November 27, the UK will seek admission to the 46-nation Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) in Geneva. Failure to ...

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