US accounting regulators have arrived in Beijing in a bid to resolve the long dispute over the auditing of Chinese companies listed on US stock exchanges, people familiar with the matter said

The CSI 300 index of stocks listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen dropped by more than 2.5%, while in Hong Kong the benchmark Hang Seng index fell as much as 3.8%.

Japan will use its nuclear reactors to wean itself off energy from Russia and other sources, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday

Uber reported a mixed first quarter on Wednesday, with bookings up 35% from a year ago – but a net loss of $5.9 billion, due to the drop in value of its stakes in Didi, Grab and Aurora

State hackers stole technology secrets from about 30 multinationals in the energy, manufacturing and pharmaceutical fields in East Asia, Europe and North America since 2019, it said

The shock move, at an unscheduled monetary policy committee meeting, caused bond yields to spike and the rupee to firm.

A Harvard tech researcher has questioned the view that China shot itself in the foot by cracking down on its tech giants, saying a closer look shows it could advance their national interests

The Weibo and WeChat accounts of Hong Hao, a prominent Hong Kong analyst, were blocked on Saturday after a series of downbeat comments amid China's stock markets slump

South Korea's inflation rate jumped by 4.8% in April, raising expectation of further interest rate rises by the country's central bank

RBA governor Philip Lowe said it was appropriate to start normalising monetary conditions as inflation was more than expected, but the economic outlook was still positive

Israel's ISMC will invest almost $3 billion in India's first semiconductor fabrication plant in Karnataka state, Mint reported.

Japan's famously thrifty consumers are tightening their belts despite sitting on an estimated 50 trillion yen ($383bn) in savings accrued during the pandemic