Tencent, Baidu and Alibaba all slashed the number of deals they made in China’s tech sector last year with the big three agreeing 40% fewer contracts

Beijing said it would not give up on achieving “reunification” after presidential candidate Lai Ching-te’s poll win earned his party a third term

Despite the SEC’s watershed approval for digital funds, some traders say they will still be avoiding what they called a "speculative, volatile asset”

New lending in 2023 hit a record $3.2 trillion – roughly equivalent to the gross domestic product of the UK

Brussels is determined to establish the impact of state subsidies on Chinese-made electric vehicles which it claims disadvantages its own automakers

China has the potential to become the world’s largest market for autonomous vehicles, with total sales predicted to hit $230 billion by 2030

Japan’s benchmark continued its 2024 charge reaching another 34-year peak while China’s woes weighed elsewhere

Tumbling confidence sparked by the deepening property crisis and weakening consumption have seen a REITs index drop nearly 50% from an early 2022 peak

The Japanese auto giant also showed off two concept models at the CES trade show in Las Vegas as it eyes a fully electric range by 2040

OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere heads met tech chiefs from Tsinghua University and other Chinese institutions in a rare example of Sino-US cooperation

Investor focus was on US inflation data due out later in the day while in Japan a weak yen helped fuel another dramatic rally

China's fast-growing electric vehicle market is set to be the key battleground for the chip makers