A 5.3 tremor rocked Tokyo on Friday, a day after a 7.1 quake shook Kyushu and sparked a national emergency warning. Kyushu is home to chip plants run by Sony and TSMC, but damage was believed to be limited

Firms sign an MoU on building and using ammonia-fuelled vessels owned either by COSCO or both firms to cut emissions while shipping minerals

Gaemi affected almost 630,000 people in southeastern Fujian province, with almost half of that number having to be relocated

A drama in Suzhou has put the spotlight on violent incidents, with analysts suggesting social hardship from China's economic slump is fuelling rising discontent

India has suffered water shortages for decades, but crises are now more frequent as summers get hotter, disrupting agriculture and industry and risking social unrest

Indian pharma giant wants a Chinese partner to test generic versions of hot-selling semaglutide drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy

Antonio Guterres says a tax on fossil fuel firms – in the oil, gas and coal sectors – would help pay for the fight against global warming

Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos are key sites of scam operations, but most ASEAN nations facilitate the trafficking of thousands of people forced to work in horrific enclaves, then help launder the proceeds, report says

The news comes amid one of the worst H5N1 outbreaks in the recent years, with bird flu detected in poultry farms in 48 states and dairy herds in nine states.

Chinese regulators give a green light for pharma giant's diabetes drug tirzepatide, which is marketed as Mounjaro, or Zepbound (for weight loss). It comes at a time of huge global demand

Analysts say they foresee a shift to factories in Mexico, Vietnam or other parts of Southeast Asia, by Chinese carmakers and other firms in a bid to avoid US tariffs; Beijing accuses US of 'bullying'

New measures will affect $18 billion in Chinese imports such as steel and aluminium, 'legacy' chips, batteries, critical minerals, solar cells, cranes and syringes