 
 
							US chipmakers Intel and AMD, plus software giant Microsoft are likely to be hit hard as China ramps up its push to replace foreign tech with locally made products, analysts say
 
 
							Chinese EV battery-maker is in talks with Tesla and other automakers to licence its battery technology in the United States, new report says
 
 
							Korean chipmaker plans to build a cluster of four fabrication plants in Gyeonggi near Seoul, with work to begin next year on the $90-billion project, which could be the "largest fab complex in the world"
 
 
							Global PE community "really circumspect about investing" in China. PE-backed M&A in Asia totalled $13.5bn from January to March 19, down 32% from the year earlier, LSEG data showed
 
 
							Vice Commerce Minister Guo Tingting said "China will fully guarantee national treatment for foreign companies", but did not explain how it would do that
 
 
							Foreign investment into China fell 19.9% in the the first two months of 2024 from the amount in January-February last year to 215 billion yuan ($30 billion), the Commerce ministry said on Friday
 
 
							Millions of Japanese are sizing up how to adapt to higher borrowing costs after many years of deflation, when prices, wages and costs changed little
 
 
							Wu Qing, the infamous 'Broker butcher' now heading China's securities regulator, has begun onsite inspections of mutual funds in a bid to clean up industry management
 
 
							British insurance giant and asset manager has put off its plan to seek obtain a business licence and halved its staff in China, sources say
 
 
							There has been an unprecedented rise in sea water temperatures, according to the World Meteorological Organization's annual State of the Global Climate report
 
 
							BOJ Governor defends move to normalise monetary policy, tells parliament that inflation is gaining momentum; said the central bank will eventually scale down its balance sheet
 
 
							National regulator has moved to tighten lending to risky borrowers with new rules set to force mergers among half its 31 consumer lenders that lack new standard for required capital