The Australian government cleared on Thursday a $1 billion bid by Chinese state-owned Baosteel Resources for iron ore miner Aquila Resources Ltd, removing the only regulatory hurdle to the deal.

中国宝钢 和澳洲铁路运营商Aurizon Holdings 周四表示，以10亿美元收购澳洲勘探公司Aquila Resources 的计划清除了一道关键的监管障碍。

中国电子商务巨头阿里巴巴一部门将出资3.125亿坡元(2.49亿美元)收购新加坡邮政 少数股权，来帮助打造全球化的电子商务物流业务。

A unit of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd will buy a minority stake in Singapore Post Ltd for S$312.5 million ($249 million) to help set up an international e-commerce logistics business.

Japan's Sony Corp and China's Shanghai Oriental Pearl Group Co Ltd will set up two joint ventures to make and market Sony's PlayStation games console in China, Shanghai Oriental Pearl said in a stock exchange filing on Monday.

中国证券时报周四报导称，海通证券 与东方创业 等联合发起的并购基金近期即将正式揭牌成立，首期募集规模拟为30亿元人民币。

China's second-largest brokerage Haitong Securities Co Ltd plans to launch a 10 billion yuan ($1.60 billion) fund for mergers and acquisitions, the official Securities Times reported on Thursday, citing unnamed sources

Italian businessman Andrea Bonomi may boost his stake in Club Mediterranee to 29.9 percent and does not rule out launching a new bid should the 557 million euros ($761 million) bid he opposes fail, a source close to the situation told Reuters, confirming a report by French daily Les Echos.

China's Bright Food Group Co Ltd said on Thursday it has signed a preliminary agreement to buy 56 percent of Israel's largest food company Tnuva from private equity firm Apax, extending a string of overseas acquisitions.

Law firm leaders at Patton Boggs in Washington, D.C., were tallying votes on Tuesday on a proposed merger with Squire Sanders, a deal that is expected to be approved and that would provide financial relief to struggling Patton Boggs.