US President says additional tariffs on semiconductors and pharmaceuticals will be revealed in about a week or so. "People love tariffs," he said in a TV interview

Prosecutors says current and former staff are suspected of breaches of Taiwan's security law. They allegedly sought details on TSMC's most advanced 2nm chip

The deal announced on Tuesday is Tokyo's most significant defence sale since the country ended a military export ban

Ishiba has responded to criticism from opposition lawmakers for not having signed an official document when Japan agreed to a trade deal with the US last month

After announcing a 25% tariff on Indian imports, Trump posted stinging remarks on social media about its high tariffs and slandering its "dead economy". Other countries in the Asia-Pacific fared much better.

Nvidia says there are 'no backdoors' in its chips, days after news emerged that Cadence paid $140m to settle US charges it sold goods to a Chinese university simulating nuclear bombs

South Korea agreed to invest $350 billion in the United States in projects selected by Trump and to purchase energy products worth $100 billion under their trade framework deal

Tesla has signed multi-billion-dollar battery and chip deals with South Korea's LG Energy Solutions and Samsung, to cut reliance on China because of Trump tariffs

Giant 8.8 quake created up to 5-metre waves that hit parts of Kamchatka, while tsunami alerts were raised in Hawaii, Guam and islands across the Pacific

With China demanding a stake in the $23bn sale, officials in Beijing and Washington may need to negotiate who gets what, as part of a bilateral trade deal

Japan's auto sector, which accounts for over a quarter of its US exports, will see tariffs cut to 15% in exchange for a $550-billion package of investment in the US

Ishiba said he "solemnly" accepted the "harsh result", but pledged to manage "critical tariff negotiations with the United States."