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30-Aug-18 Walmart wraps a USD16 bn agreement on India's leading e-commerce player, Flipkart, while Amazon negotiates deals with a supermarket chain and a prominent retail conglomerate. Meanwhile Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to acquire a stake in digital payment leader Paytm. [image: Bloomberg]
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29-Aug-18 US sanctions on Iran have presented new opportunities for Chinese companies, after Total failed to secure an exemption for its investment in South Pars. China’s demand for oil almost doubled in the past decade and natural gas is booming. [image: Bloomberg]
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24-Aug-18 Work has been completed on 2,000 kilometres of new roads, seven major bridges and a container terminal servicing the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port in Cambodia. All these initiatives have largely been backed by the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative. [image: Shutterstock_HKTDC]
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22-Aug-18 Vingroup, Vietnam’s biggest private sector company, plans to expand into artificial intelligence, software and big data and set up a tech hub in Hanoi. Vingroup aims to become "an international-standard technology-industry-service conglomerate" by 2028. [image: Financial Times]
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17-Aug-18 A major hi-tech business park in Chengdu, China, jointly developed by Singapore, is set to welcome its first batch of SMEs by early 2019. 34 ICT and life science companies have acquired for regional headquarters and R&D facilities. [image: Sino-Singapore (Chengdu) Innovation Park Development Company]
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