TOKYO (Reuters) - The trust banking arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group ( MUFG ) is planning to launch three funds totalling up to 100 billion yen ($670.6 million) in the 2024 financial year to provide loans to companies and other entities, the Nikkei reported on Sunday. The loan funds are intended to meet demand for more diverse financial instruments...

JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia has asked Alphabet's Google and Apple to block Chinese fast fashion e-commerce firm Temu in their application stores in the country so it cannot be downloaded, a minister said on Friday. The move was intended to pre-emptively protect the country's small and medium-sized businesses against cheap products being offered by PDD Holdings' Temu, communications minister Budi Arie...

JAKARTA, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Indonesia has asked Alphabet's Google and Apple ( AAPL ) to block Chinese fast fashion e-commerce firm Temu in their application stores in the country so it cannot be downloaded, a minister said on Friday. The move was intended to pre-emptively protect the country's small and medium-sized businesses against cheap products being offered by PDD...

KARACHI, Oct 13 (Reuters) - The Baloch Liberation Army, a militant separatist group in Pakistan, denied involvement in an attack that killed at least 21 mine workers, condemning the violence. Dozens of attackers stormed a cluster of small private coal mines in Pakistan's restive southwest on Friday with guns, rockets and hand grenades, killing some miners in their sleep and...