China's GDP grows 4.6% in the third quarter, slightly above expectations, but slowing growth highlights need for more stimulus. Follow our live blog for the latest updates and analysis: https://bloom.bg/3Y9Uyxx
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Cathay Pacific is introducing an art gallery to its refreshed business class cabin, part of a $12.9 billion multi-year outlay on new planes and upgraded lounges. Take a closer look: https://bloom.bg/4dKbGzO
📸: Paul Yeung/Bloomberg
China's housing ministry is holding a briefing, and investors are watching for more stimulus announcement. Follow our live blog for the latest news and analysis https://bloom.bg/402cYmB
📷: APTN
Impeachment trial: Kenyan Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua appeared before the country’s first impeachment trial, the latest challenge to William Ruto’s administration in the wake of this year’s deadly anti-government protests. https://bloom.bg/3Y6oLxK
Springbok deal: Rugby unions linked to South Africa’s richest men, and the nation’s sports minister have set back a controversial private equity deal over the commercial rights to the world-champion Springbok team. https://bloom.bg/3NNIZaR
Water crisis: South Africa and Namibia held talks aimed at resolving a long-running disagreement over rights to the Orange River, a key water source that demarcates the border between the two nations. https://bloom.bg/3Y9FvUF
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Dirty money: Senegal is poised to be removed from a global dirty-money list as early as next week, a potential boost to the country following a reform push to counter money laundering and terrorist-financing risks. https://bloom.bg/4h5xgS6
Gas trade: TotalEnergies aims to approve an import terminal for liquefied natural gas in Mozambique next year that may help users in neighboring South Africa avoid a potential supply crisis. https://bloom.bg/3YrszLn
Against the law: Mozambique’s attorney general notified opposition presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane that his actions in the election are violating the constitution and electoral laws and urged him to stop. https://bloom.bg/4f0G0qS
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused Indian diplomats of backing a pattern of criminal harassment and violence against Canadians, escalating a dispute that began last year when he suggested Indian agents were involved in the murder of a Canadian Sikh activist. Read more here: https://bloom.bg/4dHJXjn
📷: David Kawai/Bloomberg
Sudan war: The World Bank cut its economic-growth forecast for sub-Saharan Africa as a civil war in Sudan holds back the entire region. https://bloom.bg/3YkrS6q
Water crisis: Reservoir levels in South Africa’s richest province are plunging and the continent’s biggest bulk-water supplier has warned that taps may soon run dry in cities where about 12 million people live. https://bloom.bg/4h0AGWh
Facing charges: Allen Onyema, the Nigerian tycoon who owns the country’s largest airline, maintained his innocence after being indicted by the US on charges of obstructing justice for submitting allegedly false documents to end an earlier investigation. https://bloom.bg/3Ymsatm
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Tech superstar startup OpenAI announced this week that it will set up a hub in Singapore to serve partners and customers in the region — a hard-won victory for the government, which has been trying to boost the nation’s chops in artificial intelligence. Find out more in our free Singapore Edition newsletter: https://bloom.bg/3Nn4rmB
📸: Marco Bertorello/AFP
Airstrike allegations: Egypt denied accusations it carried out an airstrike on a paramilitary group battling Sudan’s army in the neighboring country’s civil war. https://bloom.bg/3ZYrY4I
Nuclear win: The US beat out Russia to build Ghana’s first small modular nuclear reactor, in a deal Washington sees as prizing its technology over cheaper financing. https://bloom.bg/4gXOfWy
Pivot from China: Congo’s top mining official says the country is courting new investors for its world-class deposits of key metals as it looks to diversify ownership in its industry. https://bloom.bg/3BGQ61W
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Presidential impeachment: Kenyan lawmakers voted to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, raising the risk of renewed political instability after deadly anti-government protests earlier this year. https://bloom.bg/3Y1f1oo
Inequality costs: Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ laws have cost the nation as much as $1.6 billion since being introduced in May 2023, a new study found. https://bloom.bg/3YfLCrH
New leadership: Mozambicans voted Wednesday for a new leader who will need to quell an insurgency that’s stalled massive liquefied natural gas projects. https://bloom.bg/3zIkW9Q
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A new HBO documentary about the origins of Bitcoin suggests that Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of the original cryptocurrency, is likely Canadian software developer Peter Todd https://bloom.bg/3NjasRe
📷: Warner Bros Discovery
The US Justice Department considers recommending to a federal judge that Google sell off parts of its business in what would be a historic breakup. Read more here: https://bloom.bg/4gVf3GV
📷: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
China stocks surge 11% as markets reopen after a week-long holiday. Follow our live blog for the latest news and analysis: https://bloom.bg/4gYsYfc
📷: Bloomberg
Apple is inching away from its annual product upgrade cycle, a move that could lead to more frequent releases and fewer jarring delays.
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📷: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
A vast China-funded high-speed rail network is heading toward Singapore, and saddling Southeast Asian nations with debt along the way: https://bloom.bg/3TZtdwL
📸: Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images
Wealth surge: Aliko Dangote's wealth jumps $15 billion with his long-awaited "monster" Nigerian oil refinery up and running. But he says he wouldn’t wish the experience on his worst enemy. https://bloom.bg/3YqFsFl
Spycraft diplomacy: The US offered to share secret intelligence with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda to try secure a cease-fire in one of the world’s longest-running conflicts. https://bloom.bg/3zYs3el
Tanker explosion: Nigerian police said the death toll from an explosion involving a gasoline tanker in the country’s north has now increased to 153. https://bloom.bg/402DBb3
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Vietnamese tycoon Truong My Lan, already on death row for fraud, has been found guilty on additional charges in a second trial. Read more: https://bloom.bg/3YoZmk7
📷: Maika Elan/Bloomberg
Former One Direction singer Liam Payne, 31, was found dead after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, local officials said. Read more here: https://bloom.bg/3YoS9R5
📷: Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images
🎙 After being sentenced to death for financial fraud, Vietnamese tycoon Truong My Lan has appealed and awaits her fate. How did her scheme come apart?
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Biden administration officials have discussed capping sales of advanced AI chips from Nvidia and other American companies on a country-specific basis, people familiar with the matter said, a move that would limit some nations’ artificial intelligence capabilities https://bloom.bg/4f1rhMs
📷: Bloomberg
EXCLUSIVE: China has begun enforcing a long-overlooked tax on overseas investment gains by the country’s ultra-rich, according to people familiar with the matter https://bloom.bg/3zWXaaa
📷: Paul Yeung/Bloomberg
China traders are bracing for volatility as Beijing readies further business support after an underwhelming finance ministry briefing over the weekend.
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📷: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
Elon Musk has unveiled long-awaited prototypes of a Tesla robotaxi called the Cybercab, saying that production may start in 2026 and that the vehicle could cost less than $30,000: https://bloom.bg/480dG5P
📸: Tesla
BREAKING: Ratan Tata, the businessman who inherited one of India’s oldest conglomerates and transformed it into a global empire, has died. He was 86 https://bloom.bg/4h0ovcc
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🎙 Inside the succession drama at a Hong Kong property dynasty. New World’s Adrian Cheng seemed poised to take over his family’s $20 billion empire, until he suddenly resigned as CEO.
Listen to the Big Take Asia Podcast to find out more on the Hong Kong scion’s dramatic ouster and what it could mean for other Asian https://link.podtrac.com/jxfy2rhy
Former Singapore Transport Minister S. Iswaran — who once roamed the Formula 1 paddocks and took a billionaire’s private jet to Qatar — now has to adjust to a more grueling lifestyle: sleeping on a straw mat on the floor of an unairconditioned prison cell.
Read more about what life is like inside the city-state's infamous Changi Prison: https://bloom.bg/3YgyToK
📷: Singapore Prison Service
No water: Zimbabwe’s second biggest city of Bulawayo is planning to extend water cuts to almost 5 1/2 days a week after closing a third of its six supply reservoirs amid the worst drought in 40 years. https://bloom.bg/4gXY9ri
Rate cuts: Kenya’s central bank is set to cut interest rates at a second straight meeting for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic spurred an easing cycle four years ago. https://bloom.bg/4dAsklj
Reelected: Tunisian President Kais Saied won a second term in a low turnout election, as discontent rises over his authoritarian style of governance. https://bloom.bg/3A1v7Gp
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Heat stress: The searing heat felt living in South Africa's shantytowns exposes another disparity in the world's most unequal nation. https://bloom.bg/4ezieCu
Middle East conflict: One year later, the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas is still reverberating across the globe. https://bloom.bg/3NgHYYs
Conflict minerals: Congo is planning to clamp down on companies that buy or source minerals from its war-torn eastern region, where smuggling is fueling one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. https://bloom.bg/4exemBZ
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Coachella is scrambling to find its headliners for next year after both Rihanna and Kendrick Lamar pass on offers to perform. Take a look inside the struggles of the biggest music festival in North America: https://bloom.bg/47Ur6QM
📷: Christopher Polk/Getty Images for NARAS
Dyson has confirmed it's cutting staff in Singapore. With Samsung and Shein also laying off workers, what does it mean for the city's manufacturing ambitions?
Read more in this week's Singapore Edition newsletter: https://bloom.bg/3zUfRLq
📸: Bryan van der Beek/Bloomberg
