Senior executives from chipmakers including Intel, GlobalFoundries, Amkor and Marvell are expected to attend a business meeting on Monday in Hanoi

The sweeping deal aims to link South Asia and the Middle East to help the flow of energy and trade from the Gulf to Europe

While India and the US are not formal treaty-bound allies, Washington wants New Delhi to be a strategic counterweight to China

The chief of one of the world’s biggest chip equipment-makers, ASML, said isolating China completely will ‘force’ the country to ramp up innovation

Australian PM Anthony Albanese signed a strategic agreement with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Friday, which will see the two countries run joint naval patrols in the South China Sea

"The significance is that it shows that China has been able to stay 2-2.5 nodes behind the world's best (chip) companies," Dan Hutcheson, an analyst with TechInsights said

China's ban on iPhone use by government workers was extended to local government entities last month, raising fears that Apple and its suppliers could be hit hard by rising Sino-US tension

Authorities in the financial hub shut schools, the stock exchange and told workers to stay at home after over 200mm of torrential rain brought by the second typhoon in a week

Republican chair of influential House panel calls for harsher curbs after the discovery of new chips in Huawei phones "that may violate trade restrictions"

State media said the investment was a clear sign of Beijing's push to end the country's reliance on foreign semiconductor firms

Australian PM meets Chinese Premier at ASEAN summit, says trade has stabilized. Keen for more progress, he will visit Beijing later this year to mark the 50th anniversary of bilateral ties

Foreign envoys complain of lack of access to officials and scholars as geopolitical tensions simmer and officials become wary of contact amid a ramped up security drive and rising anti-Western sentiment