A return to profit could ease pressure on SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son, who revealed in June plans to shift to "offence mode" amid excitement over advances in AI

US Navy destroyers were dispatched to Alaskan waters on Saturday after the "unprecedented" arrival of 11 Russian and Chinese warships "doing freedom of navigation" operations

The world's biggest contract electronics maker saw sales fall 1.23% year on year last month as PC, cloud and networking products' demand declined

Most markets in the Asia-Pacific rose on Friday, with a pledge of support from China's central bank for the property sector and local governments bolstering its key exchanges

The groundbreaking revelation by the Quantum Energy Research Centre has caused controversy, sparking a stocks surge despite the work being unverified

The bank’s deputy governor Shinichi Uchida said recent moves were focused on bond market stability and not a sign of a major policy shift

The 209kph tropical storm has already swept through Japan’s Okinawa, downing power lines and and killing one man

A spokesperson for China’s Defence ministry said the US must stop all forms of “military collusion” with Taiwan, saying Taiwan is a core Chinese interest that must not be crossed.

China's Caixin/S&P Global manufacturing purchasing managers' index data fell to negative territory, while Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam also saw factory activity contract

The Japanese auto giant is to continue development of "smart cockpits”, long-range batteries, and hybrid and plug-in hybrid engines

Sukbae Lee, one of the scientists that the alleged superconductor LK-99 is named after, said the claims were in the process of being peer-reviewed

Samsung Electronics say a demand recovery is mostly in high-end AI chips and not enough to force a turnaround on planned cuts after a $7bn half-year loss