Group distances itself from Dan Gertler after he was implicated in bribery

FT investigation: Beijing has spent billions expanding its ports network and building shipping fleets to establish itself as a maritime power 

Documents indicate Russian state oil giant instructed justice official on outcomes

Phnom Penh has emerged as a vital ally, and in return Beijing is driving development in the country

Jho Low, a businessman with Hollywood ties, is at the centre of an alleged money laundering scheme

The US is a magnet for offshore wealth, notably South Dakota, which has guaranteed secrecy for family trusts

Investment bids stall in Australia and New Zealand

Canadian pension fund’s purchase spurs backlash

Norway has offered Indonesia $1bn to stop cutting down so many trees – but progress is slow. Now its ministers are heading to the rainforests of Borneo to find out why

Two pipelines stretch from the Bay of Bengal to China. They have opened up a trail of conflict over land, as a nation struggles to open up to the world

Mohammed al-Amoudi has spent $200m planting a rice farm. But old grievances linger in this fertile corner of a land stalked by hunger

Budgets reveal fighters are well supplied while public services suffer in militant-controlled areas

Militants raise hundreds of millions of dollars a year from trade and agriculture to ‘war spoils’

Jihadis have developed a complex system to keep their fighting machine stocked

The need for energy drives Assad regime into a deadly game

Jihadis’ oil operation forces even their enemies to trade with them

Cash-strapped councils find ways of coping with cuts by becoming engines of entrepreneurialism