Local governments in Shanghai and Anhui will fund a variety of semiconductor-related projects this year — ranging from the development of DRAM chips to building facilities for chipmaking and its tools

ASML tools are used to make advanced semiconductors that can go into "high-value weapons systems and weapons of mass destruction,” a top Dutch official said

This is the second consecutive year of declining FDI into China, with numbers for 2023 less than 10% of the record amount of foreign inflows seen in 2021

EU’s antitrust regulators have open an investigation into a Chinese state-backed rail maker over its planned participation in a $657 million tender for electric trains

The launch marks a second straight win for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency after its lunar lander, SLIM, achieved a "pinpoint" touchdown last month

PricewaterhouseCoopers had been Evergrande’s auditor since 2009 — when the developer listed in Hong Kong — and resigned from that position in January last year

Navalny was President Vladimir Putin's staunchest critic and had returned to Russia just three years ago after being treated for what Western laboratory tests showed was a poisoning from nerve agent

US-listed shares of the chip designer, seen as benefitting from investors' hunt for the "next Nvidia", have surged more than 95% in just the last seven trading sessions alone

The Nikkei 225 was up 0.92% at the close in Tokyo on Friday, while the Hang Seng in Hong Kong jumped by 2.4%, and stocks in Australia and India were also boosted

Japan's ruling party's AI project team is planning to draft preliminary rules, including penal regulations, for foundation model developers such as OpenAI

VW has said it is reviewing “the future direction of business" in Xinjiang, where a test track was constructed for the German carmaker, allegedly using forced labour

The Nikkei benchmark rose to a 34-year high, while TSMC and other chip-related stocks helped most Asian markets higher on Thursday