This week’s readings / links include a look at plans to manage the widening discount at First Pacific, the bike-share oversupply problem in China, GMO’s Arjun Divecha on Russia, thoughts on Japan’s ageing population milestone and Facebook’s problem with hate speech in Sri Lanka.

• Investors press Indonesian conglomerate Salim’s holding company to sell assets: As stock price discount widens over 50%, First Pacific struggles to rationalize.
• The bike-share oversupply in China: Huge piles of abandoned and broken bicycles. Take a look!
• Russia: A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
• Japan’s ageing population milestone intensifies investor focus: Deaths now outnumber births at an average rate of 1,000 a day.
• “We had to stop Facebook”: Extremists in Sri Lanka used Facebook to organize deadly violence against Muslims. Facebook is accused of not doing enough to prevent it.