Vietnam, a global export hub, has been attracting global investments thanks to its array of free-trade deals and cheap labour, with the added allure of protection from increasing Sino-US trade friction

The trip is intended by Washington to be a major step toward what President Joe Biden has called a "thaw" in relations between the world's two largest economies

The path to Indonesia's new high-speed rail service, built and funded with Chinese aid, has been drawn-out and bumpy, and now there are tussles over when it should open and loan fees

Foreign inflows of $4.4 billion went into Taiwanese stocks and $3.1 billion into South Korean equities in May amid surge of interest in beneficiaries from artificial intelligence boom

Economic challenges and geopolitical tensions have made fundraising difficult, with investment in China by global players in particular slowing

Industrial parks in the north of the country have been affected by rolling electricity blackouts threatening to deepen its economic slump

BRICS foreign ministers have asserted their bloc's ambition to rival Western powers and build up their influence in a multi-polar world

The latest heatwave to hit Asia has set more temperature records in cities across China and parts of Southeast Asia

The investment, from a British consortium that includes mining giant Glencore, will go into a wind energy-powered industrial park on Sulawesi island

"The process of diversifying in different geographies is an excellent strategy by TSMC and so TSMC is now part of Nvidia's diversity and redundancy strategy," chief Jensen Huang said

Sea Capital had invested in collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX and its parent had seen its market capitalisation fall to $32.54bn from over $200bn

China hawks in Washington blame US investors for transferring capital and valuable know-how to Chinese tech companies that could help advance Beijing's military