(Reuters) -French train maker Alstom on Wednesday forecast a rise in its adjusted operating margin for the 2025/26 financial year, after it reported an annual free cash flow well above market expectations. Alstom, which builds trains and signalling systems for urban and regional rail networks, sees an adjusted operating profit margin of 7% in the year through March 2026. It...

HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Wednesday urged the country's anti-counterfeit task force to devise new ways to fight fake goods, trade frauds and smuggling, the government said in a statement. The pledge came as Vietnam is in talks to avoid crippling U.S. tariffs, offering Washington multiple measures to address longstanding concerns, including on intellectual property breaches...

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,...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Chinese battery maker CATL is set to price its shares at HK$263 ($33.70) each in the company's Hong Kong listing, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, raising at least $4 billion. Prospective investors have been told orders for stock made below HK$263 per share risk missing out on allocations, the sources added. The sources...