Nintendo, SoftBank Group and Sharp all suffered steep stock falls on Wednesday after investors were disappointed at their latest results

Shares of the group's flagship rose after news Adani will repay some loans, while analysts suggest assets could be sold or spending plans deferred to bolster credibility

China lodges a complaint after airship 'attack', but US officials say they have monitored at least four other spy balloon flights over the US in recent years, plus ones over Central and South America

Ruling party sources say the 'dovish' deputy governor Masayoshi Amamiya has been sounded out on taking over from Haruhiko Kuroda at the Bank of Japan

Hopes of a slowdown in central bank tightening were dashed by Friday’s upbeat US payroll numbers, weighing on Asian investor sentiment on Monday

India's market regulator SEBI has told banks they must share details about the beneficial owners of offshore funds and foreign portfolio investors, or their holdings will be liquidated

While commentators have advocated big measures, such as 1 trillion yuan for consumption vouchers to bolster public spending, key insiders say consumer subsidies are likely to be modest

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has cancelled his planned visit to China after a Chinese spy balloon was tracked flying across the country

China's dropping of travel curbs resurrected services activity in January for the first time in five months. It also sent business confidence to near 12-year highs, a Caixin/S&P Global survey found

The Paris Club of creditor nations is ready to provide financing assurances for Sri Lanka, which needs the backing for a $2.9 billion bailout by the International Monetary Fund, sources say

President Xi Jinping warned this week that China must speed up moves to become self-reliant in science and technology "to prevent being strangled by foreign countries"

The Philippines has given the US expanded access to its military bases, amid concern over China's behaviour in nearby waters that Manila claims as its exclusive economic zone