While Seoul forges ahead with plans to use the upcoming Winter Olympics to showcase inter-Korean unity, some South Korean athletes are “furious” at proposals to form joint teams with North Koreans, highlighting a broader lack of enthusiasm for some of the government’s peace-making plans. Officials from both countries are still engaged in talks over exactly […]

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Tuesday it has made “no changes” to its mapping platform in China, denying an earlier media report that claimed it was re-launching the function in China, where many of its services are blocked. Japan’s Nikkei reported earlier that Google had set up a China-specific version of the Google Maps website […]

China’s President Xi Jinping told President Donald Trump in a phone call on Tuesday that the hard-earned easing of tensions on the Korean Peninsula must continue, Chinese state media reported. Unity on the issue was extremely important, Xi said, according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. Senior officials from 20 nations will gather in Vancouver on […]

Japan is examining how to evacuate its roughly 60,000 citizens from South Korea in the event of a crisis that closes airports, with military ships being used as shuttles, a Japanese newspaper reported on Tuesday. North Korea’s pursuit of its military and nuclear programs in defiance of U.N. Security Council and other sanctions escalated tensions […]

Australia’s Qantas Airways said on Tuesday it had amended its website to no longer refer to Taiwan and Hong Kong as countries, rather than Chinese territories, after China issued a warning to foreign airlines last week. China has stepped up efforts to police how foreign businesses refer to parts of China, or territories claimed by […]

China’s central bank on Tuesday set its official yuan midpoint at the highest level in more than two years, to 6.4372 per dollar, underpinned by a solid spot yuan performance a day earlier. Tuesday’s official midpoint was 202 pips, or 0.31 percent, firmer than the previous fix of 6.4574 on Monday and was the strongest […]

South Korea’s capital has unveiled emergency measures to combat a thick layer of smog coating the city. Beginning Monday, Seoul officials waived public transport fees during commuter hours as the daily average density of ultra-fine dust remained above 50 micrograms per cubic meter — a level that’s widely considered harmful. Authorities have also limited car […]

A Chinese consumer group has asked Apple for information about the slowing of older iPhones after operating system updates, demanding a reply before Friday, state news agency Xinhua reported. The query from the Shanghai Consumer Council came in response to consumer feedback that old iPhones became sluggish after upgrading the software to iOS 10.2.1, it […]

Chinese companies have moved beyond copying others’ technologies as the world’s second-largest economy now leads the way in many areas, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. “Even today, there is still a lot of thinking and belief that China is a copycat, which is not true,” said Raymund Chao, PwC’s chairman for Asia Pacific and Greater China. China […]

The dollar slid further and European markets edged slightly lower ahead of Asia’s Tuesday trading day. European markets finished in mildly negative territory in the last session, although volumes were lighter than usual. That was due to the closure of markets stateside for Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday. Major European indexes closed slightly […]