With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors

Domestic demographers lament that China will get old before it gets rich, slowing the economy as revenues drop and government debt increases

Japan is looking at its medium-to-longer-term economic policies and whether to shift from policies imposed by former PM Shinzo Abe

A possible outcome of US chip controls could be "a partial decoupling" of the sector, experts say, with "one focused on China and one on the rest of the world"

Warren Buffett-backed BYD took the lead among Chinese electric-car makers, with a 152.5% increase in EV deliveries

Russia has been diverting oil exports from Europe to Asia as the US and its allies try to choke off its energy revenues to limit its ability to fund the Ukraine war

Ride-hailing giant Didi Global said on Monday it will be allowed to resume new user registration, but it is not known yet when its apps will be back on domestic app stores

Forex traders were ramping up bets on Monday that the Bank of Japan would further adjust its yield control policy, or even abandon it completely, while the dollar continued to fall

India sold crude products worth $588 million to the US in November after snapping up sanctioned Russian oil at deep discounts

The US sees the participation of other top producers of chipmaking equipment as essential to making its sweeping chip export controls against China effective

President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Wednesday that if nuclear threats from Pyongyang grow South Korea would either build nuclear weapons or ask the US to deploy them again on the peninsula

The Japanese yen shot up in early trading on Friday morning and Asian markets also rose, after US data showed a fall in inflation on Thursday