Investors are optimistic US inflation will show signs of cooling this week but opinion is split over China’s post-Covid recovery prospects

Defence officials from Japan and the US will discuss agreements at a top-level meeting in Washington on Wednesday on key defence issues related to the Indo-Pacific and outer space

China makes retaliatory strike against South Korea and Japan over their 'discriminatory' entry restrictions on people from the mainland, amid global concern about huge Covid outbreak

Taiwan plans to set up its own satelite internet service after seeing the dramatic impact that Musk's Starlink service had on the war in Ukraine

India has passed Japan for the first time to become the world's third largest auto market with sales of at least 4.25 million units in 2022

Lacklustre profit estimate by the world's top maker of memory chips, plus smartphones and TVs, is a warning signal for other big tech firms' results

Mergers and acquisitions involving Japanese companies were the highest recorded last year since data was first tracked in 1985

A unit of Tokyo Gas is close to a deal to buy US natural gas producer Rockcliff Energy for about $4.6 billion, sources say

Concern about Beijing's Covid data has aggravated ties with governments that said visitors from China must undergo Covid tests before arriving in their country.

Tesla's Korean outlet was fined $2.2m for failing to tell customers its EVs' driving range would drop significantly in cold weather. Meanwhile, the group delivered a record 1.3m vehicles in 2022

The US-based group said on Wednesday it will shut its operations in Japan next month because of weak local and global market conditions.

US officials said on Tuesday they may impose new Covid regulations for people on flights from China because of concerns over the "lack of transparent (health) data" from Beijing