The new plant in Dresden – TSMC's first in Europe – will capitalise on booming demand from Germany's car sector, Nikkei said
Japan’s central bank surprised markets with its bond yield tweak which boosted the yen and cooled the red-hot US dollar’s charge
The Japanese yen hit a four-month high, while the Nikkei share index fell 2.5% after the Bank of Japan shocked markets on Tuesday by lifting the cap on bond yield controls.
Stocks in China suffered their biggest fall in seven weeks, while Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney and most of Southeast Asia also declined. Indian markets, however, enjoyed a small rise.
Taiwan's government has opened an investigation into Chinese social media platform TikTok amid suspicion it illegally runs a subsidiary on the island
Toyota chief Akio Toyodo said the "silent majority" is wondering if electric vehicles really are "OK to have as a single option".
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