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Taiwan’s first commercial offshore wind farm, Alibaba invests in online parenting platform and other recent deals from around the region.

Ant Financial pulls off the world’s biggest-ever single fund-raising and Foxconn closes the biggest A-share IPO since 2015, plus other recent deals from around the region.

Pernod Ricard enters Myanmar, Acme Solar challenges Chinese solar tariffs in India, Alibaba leads investment round in ZTO Express and a Hong Kong hotpot group floats its shares, plus other recent matters.

Hong Kong investors buy Wigan Athletic Football Club and House of Fraser in the UK, while Temasek adds an Indian bank to its portfolio, plus other recent deals.

A pre-IPO investment in Go-Jek, insider trading appeal in India, the Twitch of China lists in New York, VPlus China VC raises funds and other recent deals.

Japan’s Recruit Holding poaches Glassdoor, Walmart shops for Flipkart and other recent deals from around the region.

Grab buys Uber’s Southeast Asia business, Li Ka-shing sells Hong Kong skyscraper for record price, Ping An raises US$1.12bn from Good Doctor IPO and Sri Lanka taps offshore bond investors.

Louis Dreyfus acquires oilseed refining plant in Tianjin, Lodha Developers files for IPO, China SCE Property issues bonds, Spirit AeroSystems divests China JV, Indian cellphone tower merger and other recent deals.

Vedanta buys Electrosteel through resolution plan, the India leg of Proctor & Gamble’s US$4.2bn acquisition of Merck’s consumer health unit, a sustainability bond in Indonesia to fund a rubber plantation, Alibaba’s artificial intelligence investment and other recent deals.

Pepsi’s Tropicana challenges hashtag disparagement, OCBC issues covered bonds, GreenTree Hospitality IPOs in New York and other recent matters across the region.