Seoul's Personal Information Protection Commission said it had fined Alphabet's Google $50m and Meta $22m for privacy violations. Both said they would review the finding.

Higher-than-expected US inflation sent the Nikkei and Hang Seng downwards with investors bracing for sharp rate hikes from the US Fed

Hopes that US inflation might be cooling were dashed on Tuesday deepening an already gloomy global picture

Nickel miner PT Vale Indonesia and China's Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt will work together on the Sorowako plant processing 60,000 tonnes of nickel

South Korea’s factory activity has contracted at its sharpest rate in two years and manufacturing numbers in Japan, Taiwan and China have all slipped

Investors across the region were waiting on Tuesday’s latest key US inflation report, while markets in China and South Korea played catch-up after a holiday

The deepening partnership between rising superpower China and resources-rich Russia has Western leaders worried

With Russian forces on the back foot in Ukraine and worries over harsher US rate hikes receding, traders were in positive mood at the start of the week

Chinese hackers have been allowed to collect unprecedented amounts of information on US citizens, claimed writer Gordon G Chang

Tokyo must be prepared to step in to tackle 'excessive, one-sided' yen moves, the government’s deputy chief cabinet secretary said

The discovery is part of a government crackdown on Indian entities providing fake directors to shell companies linked to China

India's crude oil flows from Russia have soared from 2% of its total imports to more than 12% since February – when Russia invaded Ukraine