The companies, which offer credit to consumers for small purchases, soared in popularity during coronavirus lockdown as people splurged online on new clothes, shoes and home furnishings

Indonesia's clear regulations and a thriving start-up ecosystem are giving it an edge in the race to dominate Southeast Asia’s burgeoning digital economy

As a metropolis, where Chinese and Western cultures meet, there are different views on whether to choose the “coexistence” or “zero tolerance” approach in Hong Kong

EVs, especially e-two-wheelers, are expensive despite state subsidies, with much lower performance parameters than internal combustible engine vehicles, report says

The Model 3 sedan description on Tesla’s Korean-language site was changed to say it is capable of travelling a "maximum" of 528 km, from "more than" 528 km

Automaker has plans to assemble EVs for its Nissan and Infiniti brands in Mississippi starting 2025 and aims to have EVs make up 40% of its US sales by 2030

Most Asian buyers halted imports in 2019 after Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal with Iran and re-imposed sanctions on oil exports

Nowhere is the pressure more acute than in Taiwan, the world centre of advanced chipmaking, where the appetite for engineering talent is growing

Asia-Pacific is the world’s largest net food and energy importer but it is not monolithic so a spike in food and energy prices would have an uneven impact

The Millennium Challenge Corporation, a US government aid agency, provided $500 million in grants for a power line and road project

The bank expects revenue to grow an extra 3% per year as it benefits from rising interest rates as policymakers look to turn off years of cheap funding

Oil recovered some of its more than 2% fall in Asian trade on Thursday after Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine accused government forces in Kyiv of shelling their territory with mortars