Business India’s HDFC Capital raises $1.8 billion from ADIA, others for low-cost housing Amazon’s Alexa returns after morning snooze Covid-19: France to relax travel rules from the UK French holiday bookings surge after rule change Taiwan to launch US$1 billion Lithuania credit fund amid Beijing pressure Money accumulated during pandemic helps Rolls-Royce hit record sales Tube workers vote to strike over jobs, pensions and conditions Global chip shortage: Samsung expects its profits to jump by 52% David Bowie’s extensive music catalog is sold to Warner Apple breaches US$3 trillion market value again Google beefs up internet security with Siemplify buyout Renault and Nissan to unveil joint EV projects, sources say Cabify risks losing fleet supremacy to Uber in home base Madrid China Evergrande shares halted, set to release ‘inside information’ Hong Kong airport targets raising US$4 billion in bond deal – sources Indonesia will sell octane-88 gasoline only in remote areas Record cargo shipped through Egypt’s Suez Canal in 2021 Sovereign wealth and public pension fund assets hit record US$31.9 trillion: Report Pakistan annual inflation rose to 12.3per cent in December US officials ask AT&T, Verizon to delay 5G wireless over aviation safety concerns Philippine Airlines exits US bankruptcy Santander’s UK bank hands out US$175 million in Christmas Day error Hong Kong ban on ivory sales comes into force China graft agency warns Walmart and Sam’s Club over Xinjiang products The Year of the Doge? 2021, crypto’s wildest year yet China calls on state firms to cut energy consumption amid carbon peak goals Hong Kong sets minimum home size to counter trend for ‘nano flats’ Hong Kong November home prices drop for 2nd month, softening from peak Sri Lanka boosts FX reserves with lift from Chinese swap China’s Didi plans Hong Kong ‘listing by introduction’, picks banks – sources (more…)
