SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...

* CIC aims to sell assets via the secondary market, sources say * CIC looking to optimise investment portfolio, they say By Kane Wu HONG KONG, April 30 (Reuters) - Chinese sovereign investor China Investment Corporation (CIC) is selling about $1 billion of its private equity (PE) investment portfolio in the secondary market, two people with knowledge of the matter...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China will plant four to five times more genetically modified (GM) corn this year than last, analysts and executives say, building momentum in a rollout that has been slowed by tight state controls, public scepticism, and mixed trial outcomes. After decades of caution, the world's top importer of corn and soybeans has in the past two years ramped...

April 28 (Reuters) - Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc ( SPR ) : * SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS SIGNS DIVESTITURE AGREEMENT WITH AIRBUS * SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS HOLDINGS INC ( SPR ) - DIVESTITURE TO CLOSE WITH BOEING ACQUISITION * SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS HOLDINGS INC ( SPR ) - TRANSACTIONS EXPECTED TO CLOSE IN Q3 2025 * SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS HOLDINGS INC ( SPR ) -...