The planned factory in the state of Maryland will be Hitachi's second US rail car facility, after another in Miami

Taiwan's export orders leapt 21.1% from a year earlier to $51.56 billion last month on sustained technology demand

Asia's share of new infections, excluding China, has grown to 48% of the global total, up from 21% during the January omicron peak

Sovereign fund voted against conglomerate's plan to break itself up by spinning off its devices business, a voting record showed

The Japanese prime minister also announced plans to invest 5 trillion yen ($42 billion) in India over five years

The move, which will also apply to Toyota and Isuzu Motors vehicles that use one of the Hino engines, will be formally announced by the ministry on March 25

Comments reinforce expectations that Japan will remain an outlier in the global shift towards tighter monetary policy

Kyoto-based Murata, the top global supplier of ceramic capacitors used in smartphones and cars, said it aims to restart two facilities in Fukushima prefecture

The company said third-party unauthorised access was made at Bridgestone Americas on February 27, prompting a shutdown of its computer network

Japanese auto giant Toyota says it plans to hack back its April global production by 17% to 750,000 units

Japan chip heavyweight Renesas, which has suspended work after the earthquake, makes nearly a third of the microcontroller chips used in cars around the world

China tech stocks surged for a second day after the government vowed to ease a regulatory crackdown and on optimism over a Ukraine ceasefire.