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Jack Ma in Indonesia shows ‘explosive’ online sales growth

  Bloomberg In a testament to the rising consumer potential of the world’s No. 6 emerging market, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo has tapped for guidance the king of Chinese e-commerce: Jack Ma. Jokowi, as Indonesia’s leader is known, further intensified the buzz surrounding his country’s $2 billion e-commerce market with a stop at Jakarta’s sprawling Mangga Dua bazaar last month, ...

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India’s biggest oil processor to boost refinery expansion plan

  Bloomberg Indian Oil Corp. is scaling up an expansion plan for its biggest refinery in northern India at a cost of 150 billion rupees ($2.3 billion), as it races to meet demand in one of the world’s fastest-growing crude consumers. India’s top refiner will expand its Panipat refinery to 25 million metric tons a year (500,000 barrels a day) ...

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IMF issues warning over China debt load

  Beijing / AFP China’s dependence on debt is growing at a “dangerous pace” and it must act to head off a brewing crisis, the IMF warned on Tuesday. The International Monetary Fund also said the country’s leaders should kick on with vital reforms or risk a painful correction in the world’s number two economy, adding that Beijing’s “unsustainably high” ...

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