The leader manufacturer of chips for automobiles has shut its plant in Beijing after workers caught Covid last week

Prime Minister Kishida Fumio announces a five-year plan to prepare the country's armed forces for possible conflict amid rising tensions across the region

The US has added dozens of firms to its trade blacklist in a bid to curb China's military, human rights abuses, and block suppliers of the Russian military

Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council says it will fund research on laser-plasma interactions and magnetically confined high-temperature plasmas, following US discovery

Apple’s Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook revealed the total on a visit to the epicentre of the Japanese chip industry

The startup's HAKUTO-R mission launched the world's first commercial Moon lander from Cape Canaveral on Sunday

Food, petroleum and coal goods prices were all up in November from a year earlier, as were chemical goods and metal scrap prices, but at a slower rate

The firms aim to begin operations in 2025 and the joint plan will see $4-5 billion of investment in the factory

Unions are now also planning a general strike backing the truckers whose action has disrupted supply chains and cost more than $3.2 billion

President Yoon Suk-yeol has already ordered cement industry truckers back to work and will now issue the same ultimatum to the oil refining and steelmaking sectors

The country’s cement, steel, auto and oil refining industries have missed out on 1.6 trillion won worth of deliveries in the seven days since the strike began

Federal Reserve chairman's remarks – that the US Fed could reduce the pace of its rate hikes this month – sends Wall Street equities soaring and lifts Asian markets in early trading