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China Eastern Airlines plans to raise 7 billion yuan ($1 billion) from selling shares to its state-owned parent company — more than double the amount originally planned — to help it weather a financial crisis.

South Korean conglomerate Lotte Group will invest $5 billion in the next 15 years to develop 30 supermarkets in Vietnam to tap the Southeast Asian country's fast-growing retail market, state media reported Thursday.

Russia spent $57.5 billion from its foreign currency reserves in September and October to support the declining ruble during the financial crisis, the Central Bank chief revealed Wednesday.

Japan will offer up to 10 trillion yen ($105 billion) to the International Monetary Fund to bailout nations reeling from the global financial crisis, The Nikkei newspaper reported Thursday.

The Chinese government has given the Agricultural Bank of China a $19 billion bailout in a major step toward restructuring the rural lender as it prepares to issue publicly traded shares.