SINGAPORE, April 15 (Reuters) - U.S. private equity firm Warburg Pincus said on Monday that it has made an investment in Vietnam's Xuyen A, which operates four general hospitals in the south of the country. Financial terms were not disclosed. We believe the private healthcare sector in Vietnam presents a tremendous opportunity for outsized growth, as the hospital infrastructure in...

(Reuters) - Russian Copper Company (RCC) and Chinese firms have avoided taxes and skirted the impact of Western sanctions by trading in new copper wire rod disguised as scrap, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Copper wire rod was shredded in the remote Xinjiang Uyghur region by an intermediary to make it hard to distinguish from scrap, the...

MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish drug maker Grifols, battling a plunge in its share price this year, plans to add independent directors to its audit and compensation committees to improve its governance, its chairman said in a newspaper interview published on Sunday. Grifols' market value has shed billions of euros since short-sheller Gotham City Research released three reports in early January accusing...

PARIS/HONG KONG (Reuters) -BNP Paribas has signed an agreement with China's Fosun Group to acquire its around 9% stake in Belgian insurer Ageas for a sum the French bank estimates at 730 million euros ($777 million). Ageas and BNP Paribas are long time partners via a joint shareholding in AG Insurance, Belgium's leading insurer. Ageas owns 75% and BNP the...