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Angola has secured $2 billion in Chinese financing from the China Development Bank for infrastructure projects on President João Lourenço's first visit to Beijing, Angola's state newspaper Jornal de Angola reported on Wednesday.

Conservatives are increasingly confident of winning the ‘meaningful vote’ next month

* Says would defend City if "unsatisfactory environment" (Adds more detail, comment from commerial property firms)

Oxfam on Wednesday rejected Singapore's defence of its low taxes after the NGO ranked the wealthy city state among the 10 worst-offending countries in fuelling inequality with its low-tax regime.

Switzerland's highest court ruled on Wednesday against prosecutors seeking to extend the country's bank secrecy law to cover whistleblowers wherever they are in the world.

Most Southeast Asian stock markets fell on Wednesday after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said risks to the global financial system could increase if pressures in emerging markets escalate or global trade relations deteriorate further. Malaysian shares recorded their lowest close since July 16 on concerns...

* Loss-making WeWork growing rapidly on demand for flexible leases

Danish and Estonian regulators have not sought assistance from Moscow in their investigation of a massive money laundering scandal involving Russian and other account holders, Russia's financial monitoring service told Reuters on Wednesday.

Offshore holdings of bonds issued by China's policy banks rose to a new high in September after the cabinet announced a tax-rule change aimed at attracting more foreign participants to the world's third-largest bond market.