Stocks were up in Asia on Friday with South Korea enjoying the largest daily jump in 16 months, while tech shares helped lift markets in China, Japan, and Australia

Japan changed a key policy document that put hybrid vehicles on par with battery-electric cars after Toyota warned that carmakers could not back a government that rejected hybrid tech.

The accident involving a Nio test vehicle that reportedly plunged off the fifth floor of the company's headquarters in Shanghai had become "one of the most discussed topics on Weibo"

A poll of analysts earlier this month found there is a 40% chance of a US recession over the next two years, with a 25% chance of that happening in the coming year.

Chinese tech shares in Hong Kong rose after President Xi Jinping chaired a meeting that backed support for fintech firms. Alibaba jumped 6.4%, and Chinese automakers also shone.

"This year is a low point, the lowest I’ve seen," said Rockee Zhang, a recruitment consultant for two decades who works for Randstad in Shanghai.

China said on Monday it plans to fly to the Red Planet in late 2028, to collect rock samples and bring them back by 2031 - two years ahead of NASA and the European Space Agency

Hong Kong Stock Exchange has warned China Evergrande it must remedy the issues that led to its trading suspension by September 2023 or face possible delisting, the company advised this week

Chinese scientists say their new supercomputer rivals the US Frontier, ranked recently as the world's most powerful, claiming it "has successfully run an AI model as sophisticated as a human brain"

China is concerned about Elon Musk's ties to the US military and the role his satellites could play in a war in Asia, which means Tesla's access to the Chinese market could be at risk

Prosecutors in South Korea have imposed a travel embargo on the TerraUSD developers to stop them leaving the country while inquiries are conducted into the huge crypto collapse last month

Former Tesla workers have filed a lawsuit claiming the 'mass layoff' was illegal because people got no advance warning. And some of Tesla's top diversity advocates were among those sacked.