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LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images Sri Lanka, January 2 2018: A Chinese-funded $1.4 billion land reclamation project next to Colombo’s main sea port Multi-jurisdictional dealings between Chinese entities and their emerging market counterparts can pose immense regulatory challenges, especially in the realms of financing and execution. To address trade and investment disputes …

Prashanth Vishwanathan | Bloomberg | Getty Images Arun Jaitley, finance minister of India India’s finance minister said Thursday that the country wants to “eliminate” the use of cryptocurrencies in criminal activities. “The government does not recognize cryptocurrency as legal tender or coin and will take all measures to eliminate the …

Getty Images | ehdi Taamallah | NurPhoto Rihanna is welcomed by the First Lady Brigitte Trogneux as she arrives for a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at Elysee Palace on July 26, 2017 in Paris, France. French President Emmanuel Macron is set to meet with global superstar Rihanna at …

Gianluca Colla | Bloomberg | Getty Images The headquarters of Roche AG in Basel, Switzerland. Roche said 2017 net income fell 9 percent as the Swiss drugmaker took charges for the impairment of goodwill and intangible assets as well as amortisation of intangible assets. IFRS net income dropped to 8.8 …

China’s “Belt and Road” investments in Kazakhstan are paying off, allowing the Central Asian country to promote itself as an attractive market for the U.S. and other global investors. During a Jan. 16 visit to the White House, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev declared a “new era of relations” between the …

Feng Li | Getty Images Workers assemble televisions on the production line of Tianle Group Co., Ltd on July 3, 2012 in Shengzhou of Zhejiang Province, China. A survey focused on small and mid-size manufacturing in China beat expectations on Thursday as factory output hit a 13-month high. The Caixin/Markit …

Dan Kitwood | Getty Images A visual representation of the digital Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin on October 24, 2017 in London, England. Bitcoin is headed for its worst monthly decline since January 2015 this month amid increasing scrutiny from regulators on the cryptocurrency space. At 12:30 p.m. London time (7:30 a.m. ET), …

Tim Boyle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Traders work in the S&P 500 pit at the CME Group’s Chicago Board of Trade in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Monday, Nov. 28, 2011. Plans by central bankers to reduce monetary stimulus could create market shocks, but these are unlikely to happen in …

Yuri Gripas | Reuters Secretary of State Rex Tillerson answers a question at the State Department in Washington, January 18, 2018. Two top U.S. government officials called on Gulf countries including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to resolve their dispute with their neighbor Qatar, saying that regional …

Jung Yeon-Je | AFP | Getty Images People watch a television news screen showing pictures of US President Donald Trump (C) and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (R) at a railway station in Seoul on November 29, 2017. Korea expert Victor Cha was widely expected to be nominated as the …