Australia said that a Chinese firm can continue to lease the port of Darwin in the north of the country, the latest sign of the thaw in bilateral relations ahead of the expected visit to Beijing by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
(Bloomberg) — Olive oil prices continued to rise pushing up the cost of Italy and Spain’s top dishes even as headline inflation retreats across Europe.
Former PwC Australia partner Peter Collins was banned by Australia’s markets regulator from providing financial services for eight years.
China Evergrande Group is revising the terms of its proposed restructuring plan and canceled so-called scheme sanction hearings, it said in a filing, adding further uncertainty to what would be one of the nation’s biggest ever restructurings.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will travel to Egypt on Friday as he urges leaders in the Middle East to avoid regional escalation of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
China took a fresh step to ensure funding costs in its financial markets are sufficiently low so a tentative pickup in the nation’s economy can take hold.
Hong Kong’s stock exchange beat profit estimates in the third quarter as investment income increased and trading volumes rebounded.
Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman, futurist Amy Webb and Tesla Inc. Chair Robyn Denholm were among the big drawcards at this week’s inaugural South by Southwest Sydney, the first time the sprawling tech, music and film festival has been held outside North America.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. are among the influential Chinese investors that invested 2.5 billion yuan ($342 million) in AI startup Zhipu this year, part of a wave of capital flowing into a red-hot arena.
The European Central Bank will next week hammer home the message that borrowing costs are set to stay high for an extended period — despite risks to economic growth swirling, according to a Bloomberg poll of analysts.
