Bloomberg Sharp Corp., controlled by Foxconn Technology Group, plans to buy Toshiba Corp.’s personal-computer business as its Taiwanese parent seeks to expand beyond contract manufacturing and build a brand of its own. Toshiba is selling 80 percent of the unit for 4 billion yen ($36 million) and the two companies aim to complete the sale by October 1, they said ...

Bloomberg China is expanding efforts to keep its most promising companies from going public in Hong Kong or the US, with officials studying a new trading venue in Shanghai that would have lower thresholds for biotechnology and high-tech firms, people with knowledge of the matter said. Government entities including the China Securities Regulatory Commission and Ministry of Science and Technology ...

Bloomberg Every year, Freeport-McMoRan Inc. dumps tens of millions of tons of mining waste into the Ajkwa River system in Indonesia. The company has been doing it for decades, and is demanding the right to keep at it for decades to come. The discharge of what are called tailings, the leftovers of mineral extraction, is perfectly legal under Freeport’s current ...