TOKYO/HONG KONG/SEOUL -- The race to produce ever cheaper batteries for electric vehicles is entering a new stage as a series of fires and slowing EV sales put the focus on a new metric: safety.

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TOKYO -- The Japanese government plans to invest 200 billion yen ($1.28 billion) in fiscal 2025 to support Rapidus in making ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -- Wu Guofang, a former senior official at China's securities regulator, is under investigation for suspected severe violations of law and discipline, China's top anti-graft watchdog ...

HO CHI MINH CITY -- LG Electronics added coders earlier this month to its vehicle and home appliance businesses in Vietnam, where it traditionally focused on manufacturing. The addition of software ...

Bank Indonesia (BI) kept the benchmark rate steady at 6.00%, as predicted by 25 of 34 analysts polled by Reuters.

LOS ANGELES -- U.S. streaming giant Netflix will produce and release its first original Japanese historical drama in 2025, highlighting the growing weight of non-English-language content. At a theater ...

While campaigning, one of the core economic policies Trump sold to American voters was an imposition of a 60% tariff on products imported from China and a 10% tariff on imports from everywhere else.

A rapid change in customer preference is causing uncomfortably high inventory levels at auto dealerships across India, adding pressure to their business despite robust sales during the country's ...

GENEVA (Kyodo) -- The World Health Organization said Tuesday it has granted emergency use of a Japanese mpox vaccine, its second approval of a product to inoculate against the infectious disease, to ...

HONG KONG -- Pro-democracy Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying took the stand in his national security trial on Wednesday, as proceedings resumed one day after 45 activists were sentenced in a ...

LONDON -- U.S. activist investor Elliott Management has purchased a stake of more than 5% in Tokyo Gas, it was learned ...