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

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