A 5.3 tremor rocked Tokyo on Friday, a day after a 7.1 quake shook Kyushu and sparked a national emergency warning. Kyushu is home to chip plants run by Sony and TSMC, but damage was believed to be limited

Nobel laureate has been sworn-in as chief adviser of a caretaker government that has taken power, after weeks of turmoil and the abrupt departure of PM Sheikh Hasina on Monday

Weak demand for travel to China, plus rising costs and needing to avoid Russian airspace, has seen Western airlines slash services to the mainland

Sources say some of the compliance checks were related to four rural commercial banks under investigation for suspected bond market manipulation

Some 73 companies are now on the US blacklist. New additions include Rare Earth Magnesium Technology Group in Hong Kong and Century Sunshine Group, which make magnesium fertilizer and alloy products.

The Federation of Thai Industries has warned that cheap Chinese imports are killing local manufacturers, with hundreds of firms forced to close every month in the first half

Over half of all vehicles sold in China last month were either new pure electric vehicles (EVs) or plug-in hybrids, industry data has revealed

Russia and China are looking at bilateral barter deals, as a way to avoid use of international banking systems, which can be monitored, trade sources say

Commerce Department outlines grants and loans that have helped entice the Korean tech giant to set up a chip production plant, plus a research facility in Indiana

Thailand's top court has scrapped the Move Forward Party and banned its leaders for 10 years, in a ruling that shows the country's bitter political divisions remain unresolved

All existing carbon credits linked to renewable energy projects failed to qualify as per the Core Carbon Principle standards due to concerns over their role in preventing emissions

Talks between Italian authorities and China's Dongfeng Motor Group about a factory to make electric vehicles are at an advanced stage, sources have said