BHP Billiton did not confirm the reason for such return of oil and gas stakes in India. BHP Billiton, the global mining firm, said last Monday that it had given up nine oil and gas exploration blocks located in India.

The Burman family and Healthcare At Home UK form joint venture for the Indian market. The promoter of Dabur India, the Burman family, is entering into the healthcare market through a joint venture with the founders of UK based 'Healthcare at Home'.

HTC claimed in a Financial Times article that it had a hand with Microsoft Corp's smartwatch years ago.

Huishang Bank Corp's planned initial public offering would be the biggest public listing by a banking institution on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in three years.

Hutchison Whampoa would be considering a spinoff for its AS Watson Group unit after it failed to find a buyer for its ParknShop chain.

Woori Finance Holdings closed its preliminary bidding to privatize the largest financial company in South Korea.

Chinese government think-tank Development Research Center had proposed a lift of the ban to sell bonds in order to reduce its local governments' USD4 trillion debt.

Coal India's CEO S. Narsing Rao would try to convince brokerage firms to invest in the state run mining firm from India.

In a speaking engagement in India, BP CEO Bob Dudley said market pricing of natural gas in the country is the proper way to do it.

Yahoo decided to keep more of its stake in Alibaba after the latter would go public. Yahoo amended its planned share sale of its holdings in the Alibaba Group and decided to keep a larger stake of the Chinese e-commerce firm.