The finch affiliate of China's e-commerce giant Alibaba, Ant Financial, is in the advance talks to acquire the UK currency exchange company WorldFirst in a potential deal that could be valued at $632.5M, according to Sky News.
Euronext NV, the pan-European exchanges group, is moving on the Oslo Stock Exchange with a $711M proposal, after receiving its shareholders' approval.
The US private investment fund Castlelake is set to acquire 25 planes from Malaysia's budget airline AirAsia Group in a deal worth $768M, the company reported.
Japan is expected to withdraw from the IWC in a bid to continue commercial whaling in the next year's July, the Japanese government stated on Wednesday.
Policymakers of the Bank of Japan disagreed on the allowing bond yields to move more flexibly over the Bank's 0% target's feasibility, reflecting division on how to address increasing dangers of prolonged easy policy.
Banking institutions in China saw a 6.3% rise in total liabilities and assets to $27.71 trillion, according to the report by the CBIRC.
The government of Japan approved the policy package in order to prepare for foreign workers' acceptance under the new visa system next year.
Turkey is likely to increase the minimum wage by 26% in the year of 2019, for a $381 monthly minimum wage, the Labour Minister stated.
China's migrants reached 244.5M in the year of in 2017, 820K less than in the prior year, according to an official report.
Lottery sales in China grew 10.8% year-over-year to about $6.2B in the month of November, official data revealed on Tuesday.
Copyright industries contributed more than $881.8B in value to China's economy in 2017, accounting for 7.35% of the GDP, according to the report.
Huawei is an important network equipment supplier for Britain's telecom service provider BT, a spoke person of the British company says.
The Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi met with the Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi to discuss bilateral ties.
Pakistan strongly condemns the terrorist suicide attack and shooting in Afghanistan's capital Kabul that resulted in over 40 deaths.
The company has shipped more than 200M smartphones in 2018, a new record high, the Chinese technology firm Huawei reports.
China will unveil new high-speed trains with a designed speed of 250 km per hour at an exhibition held in Beijing, the China Railway Corporation reports.
Africa as a whole remains a foreign policy priority for South Africa in 2019, the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu says.
China will continue to fulfil its financial duties to the United Nations as a developing country, a foreign ministry spokesperson says.
Israel's ruling coalition announced a decision to dissolve the Knesset and hold early elections in April amidst crisis over conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews.
In light of nationwide protests, which included multiple attacks on police officers, the President of France Emmanuel Macron called all citizens to observe law and order.
The US President Donald Trump stated on Monday that Saudi Arabia agreed to take America's place in restructuring post-war Syria.
The Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Masatsugu Asakawa stated on Tuesday that the Japanese government would closely watch surging volatility and be prepared to curb it at any time.
The Finance Committee of Israeli Parliament on Monday approved provision of $185M grant to Intel Corp in exchange for $5B expansion of the company's operations in the country.
The Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated on Tuesday that the country's President did not have any instant plans to meet and talk with his Turkish colleague Tayyip Erdogan.