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21-Feb-19 Hong Kong authorities are preparing to issue digital banking licences to six companies including internet and gaming group Tencent, Ant Financial, the payments business of e-commerce giant Alibaba, smartphone maker Xiaomi and insurer ZhongAn. [image: Bloomberg]
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04-Feb-19 Chinese social media apps have become hugely popular in India, with five out of the top 10 apps being Chinese-owned in 2018. The Indian government is drafting regulations to moderate content, in an effort to help Indian start-ups. [image: Financial Times]
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08-Jan-19 The US government is concerned about India’s revised e-commerce regulations and has said the policy will hinder the Indian investment plans of Amazon.com and Walmart Inc. The rules ban companies from making exclusive deals with sellers. [image: Reuters / Mike Segar]
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27-Dec-18 New e-commerce rules in India will mean no e-commerce player can force a seller to sell exclusively on their platform. They also clamp down on discounts, to curb the practice of predatory pricing, which has hit physical retail hard. [image: AFP]
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10-Dec-18 With the aim of reducing India’s dependence on imported medical devices by promoting manufacture and use of local ones, the government will form a Medical Devices Development Council to spearhead policy initiatives to boost local manufacturing. [image: The Times Of India]
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