Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said it will invest an extra $2bn in Southeast Asian e-commerce firm Lazada Group and tapped a top executive to run the business, as it takes on rivals such as tech titan Amazon in an aggressive expansion in the region.

The air in Pohang is thick with steel dust and anxiety. No place in South Korea has more to lose from President Trump’s tariffs on steel imports than this industrial city on the country’s southeast coast.

Akbar Al Baker, chief executive of Qatar Airways, has never shied away from a fight.

Eleven countries including Japan and Canada signed a landmark Asia-Pacific trade agreement without the United States on Thursday in what one minister called a powerful signal against protectionism and trade wars.

Wang Zhe, a wealthy Chinese businessman from Guangzhou, liked his glass of decade-old Chardonnay at an Australian winery so much he wanted more. So he asked to buy the entire vintage.

The road to profits is paved with good data.