Life Insurance Corp of India's embedded value has been put at more than 5 trillion rupees ($66.8bn), an official overseeing what is expected to be the country's largest IPO said on Thursday

Wormhole, a DeFi platform that said $320 million in ether tokens had been stolen by hackers, put out a notice late on Thursday to say all tokens and funds were 'safe'

Infections in Japan have surged since the start of the year as the Omicron variant has taken hold with about a fifth of cases in Tokyo

The Australian government agreed on Wednesday to provide a US$100m loan to fund the Yangibana rare earths mine proposed by Hastings Technology Metals in the Gascoyne region

JERA aims to be Japan's biggest solar power operator. It will ask partner West Holdings to build solar power farms at about 7,000 sites, including former JERA power plant sites

Google, Twitter and Facebook executives faced heated demands in a meeting with Indian officials, who said their inaction on fake news forced Delhi to order content takedowns, sources said

The demise of GlobalWafers' $4.5bn bid to buy Siltronic was welcomed by German politicians, who said the country had to protect its security interests

India's government bailed out its cash-strapped telecom sector late last year, helping telcos free up cash for growth, potentially making a 5G airwaves auction this year a hot bidding contest

Sony Interactive Entertainment will acquire Bungie, the creator of 'Halo' videogame and developer of 'Destiny,' in $3.6bn deal, the latest in a wave of consolidations in the gaming sector

Billions to be spent on expanding highways, pushing the manufacture of solar modules, while the RBI will launch a digital rupee based on blockchain tech and may impose a hefty tax on crypto

MPs in Japan adopted a resolution on Tuesday on the "serious human rights situation" in China, and called for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government to take steps to relieve the situation

Diem Association sold its assets to crypto-focused bank Silvergate Capital on Monday, ending the ambitious push by Facebook/Meta to get its billions of users to adopt its own currency