Bloomberg Indonesia will cap Wednesday’s Independence Day celebrations by scuttling as many as 71 impounded foreign vessels —mostly Vietnamese but also a handful of Chinese —to signal its determination to protect its sovereignty over lucrative fishing grounds in the South China Sea. The destruction of the boats comes amid simmering regional tensions over territorial disputes in the water. Former ...

  Bloomberg Temasek Holdings Pte bought shares in ICICI Bank Ltd., India’s largest private-sector lender by assets, as the nation’s central bank pushes lenders to clean up bad debts that have weighed on earnings. The Singapore state-owned investor bought 2.55 million American depositary receipts of ICICI in the second quarter, worth $18 million at the end of June, according to ...

  STOCKHOLM / Bloomberg Svenska Handelsbanken AB removed its chief executive officer after less than 18 months and said the top role at the bank has become so complex that a traditional management profile was no longer adequate. Frank Vang-Jensen, a 48-year-old who was only appointed to the role of CEO in March last year, is being replaced by Anders ...