SHANGHAI -- The Chinese central bank set the yuan's exchange rate at its strongest level against the dollar in more than a year on Friday, buoyed by a weaker greenback and easing trade tensions with ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's cabinet on Friday approved a record 122.31 trillion yen ($785 billion) draft initial budget for fiscal 2026 as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi pursues expansionary fiscal ...

HO CHI MINH CITY -- Vietnam looks like a tech darling as investment from giants such as Apple, Samsung and others pours in. But new research suggests this is not triggering the kind of tech transfer ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan -- A digital art exhibition opened by the Toyota group on Dec. 20 in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, marks the latest attempt by the world's largest automaker to move beyond merely ...

HONG KONG -- Hyatt Hotels is developing partnerships with Chinese state-owned companies to establish joint-venture hotel brands as it faces a slowdown in the country and looks to expand outside ...

TOKYO -- Artificial intelligence and private markets can offer new business avenues and increase competition for financial market index providers, according to experts at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

Don McLain Gill is a Philippines-based geopolitical analyst, author and lecturer at the Department of International Studies, De La Salle University.

TOKYO -- Japan's private-sector imports of rice have swelled by a factor of 104 so far this year as high prices for domestic rice make foreign-grown varieties competitive even with the cost of import ...

TOKYO -- Fujitsu is joining a project led by Japanese tech investor SoftBank Group to develop next-generation memory for artificial intelligence and supercomputers, Nikkei has learned, as Japan looks ...

OSAKA -- Japanese video game company Capcom, the studio behind such hit series as Resident Evil and Monster Hunter, has a quest to nearly double global software sales, President Haruhiro Tsujimoto ...

DALIAN, China -- Chinese robot developer Agibot has launched a rental service for individual and corporate customers, readying more than 1,000 humanoid and quadruped robots with a goal of reaching 400 ...

Shimizu Bank has said it will consider adopting SBI's platform. The bank has already switched to NTT Data's core system in May 2024 but sees SBI's system as versatile and scalable. Shimizu Bank will ...