Taipei has long claimed Beijing has coveted the island’s semiconductor talent and its government is now proposing a legal change to further protect its intellectual property

Kishida won a run-off against vaccine minister Taro Kono. The former banker is set to become prime minister on Monday, but he will have just 4-5 weeks before he faces an election.

Leadership hopeful seen as accommodative to new energy industry as Japan looks to modernise – and green – its power supplies

Taipai’s application to be part of the 11-nation regional CPTPP agreement – just days after China applied to join the same group – has sparked a stark warning from Beijing

Rio Ferdinand, Gerard Pique, Antoine Griezmann and Cesar Azpilicueta have also invested in the game which sees cards traded in the form of non-fungible tokens

More than 60 digi currency exchanges must register with the country’s Financial Intelligence Unit and partner up with banks or face being ordered to stop trading

The company, which supplies Apple and Qualcomm, will ‘set related mitigation measures’ and actively adopt the use of renewable energy

The Taipei-based group, which has launched scooter-sharing services in Europe, is also eyeing moves into the Indian and Chinese markets with tie-ups with Hero MotoCorp, Dachangjiang Group and Yadea Group

South Korean multinational’s shareholders agree to separate the unit amid speculation it will seek to list in coming year

Internet giant says it provides huge benefits for South Koreans through its Play Store, its search engine service, and productivity apps such as Google Docs

Fair Trade body said Google hampered competition by making device producers abide by a contract on app store licences, so they could not equip their handsets with modified versions of Android

Apple says Epic Games, which has lodged legal cases in a bid to add its own payment option to the App Store platform in South Korea, 'must agree to play by the same rules as everyone else'