China exported 10.56 million masks to North Korea in September, up from just 210 in August, and 40,000 pairs of rubber gloves

The dollar weathered more suspected intervention to stabilise the yen on Monday, and even though officials are spending billions to defend the currency the BoJ is tipped to stick with its low rate policy

Japanese PM Fumio Kishida said the two nations had been working to achieve a free and open Indo-Pacific under "an increasingly severe strategic environment"

Australia and Japan are expected to update their security agreement, given China's aggressive posturing over Taiwan and the South China Sea. But Tokyo also wants help with its energy transition

Japan's core consumer inflation rate rose 3% last month to a new high, adding pressure on the Bank of Japan and its soft interest rate policy, which has caused the yen to plummet

Japan will undertake its biggest arms buildup since World War Two amid growing concern about the war in Ukraine and Beijing's plan to takeover Taiwan

Central bank unable to slow drop past key level, despite vow to buy 100 billion yen ($667 million) of state debt with 10-20 maturities plus another 100bn of bonds with maturities of 5-10 years

The US-China trade conflict and the escalation of cross-Strait tensions have brought serious challenges, TSMC chairman Mark Liu says

Tokyo dodges questions on whether it is already supporting its currency through ‘stealth intervention’ as US dollar’s surge continues

Korea Electric power raised its base electric rate by 17% for industrial customers and 6.8% for residential users.

"The main driver behind the increase are rising prices of food," analyst Rikuto Minami at Mizuho Research & Technologies said.

Chip giants allowed to continue work at their China factories, but the ban on US citizens working for local firms has shocked the sector, forcing firms like Naura and YMTC to pull key staff