Himalayan hydropower boom faces mounting insurance pressures
RAJASTHAN, India -- The hydropower industry in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region is seeing persistently high damage-related losses as high-altitude icy z
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South Korea to build 8 nuclear power plants in US, invest $120bn
SEOUL -- South Korea will spend $120 billion in the U.S. to build eight nuclear power plants as part of an agreement to invest $350 billion in exchang
Nikkei Asia Tech1 min readAustralia's small businesses brace for squeeze from card surcharge ban
SYDNEY -- A ban on credit and debit card payment surcharges from Oct. 1 is set to save Australians 1.6 billion Australian dollars ($1.12 billion) ever
Nikkei Asia Tech1 min readBOJ Tankan shows sixth straight rise in manufacturer sentiment
TOKYO -- Business sentiment among large Japanese manufacturers improved for a sixth consecutive quarter in the July-September period on the back of st
Nikkei Asia Tech1 min readJapan hikes foreign residency fees, tightens rules: 5 things to know
TOKYO -- The cost of securing the right to remain in Japan rose sharply for foreign residents on Thursday as a revision to the immigration control law
Nikkei Asia Tech5 min readRepaying my debt to Japan: Stephen Schwarzman (1)
I co-founded Blackstone, an American investment firm, in 1985.We began with just two people. Over the next 40 years, that small firm grew into a thriv
Nikkei Asia Tech4 min readChina ends tax break on lithium-ion EV batteries after 11 years
GUANGZHOU -- China is scaling back incentives related to electric vehicles, having reinstated the consumption tax on lithium-ion batteries in Septembe
Nikkei Asia Tech1 min readKirin's purchase of Blackmores yields results 3 years later: president
SYDNEY -- Kirin Holdings has begun reaping the benefits of its acquisition of Australian supplement maker Blackmores as the Japanese beverage maker ex
Nikkei Asia Tech1 min readNidec races to shore up governance as auditor withholds earnings sign-off
TOKYO -- Scandal-hit Nidec faces a fast-approaching deadline to show its governance structures are in order and ward off the risk of delisting, after
Nikkei Asia Tech1 min readThe future of AI belongs to the orchestrators
David Ha is co-founder and CEO of Sakana AI, based in Tokyo.The world is obsessed with frontier AI models. Billions are poured into training ever-larg
Nikkei Asia Tech1 min readChinese tourists shun Japan for Southeast Asia during long holiday
SHANGHAI -- China's seven-day National Day holiday kicks off Thursday, with many of the more than 2 billion expected passenger trips heading to and fr
Nikkei Asia Tech1 min readMost Japan business leaders want strict 2-year limit on food tax cut: Nikkei poll
TOKYO -- Nearly three quarters of Japanese business leaders say a two-year limit on the government's planned consumption tax cut on food should be str
Nikkei Asia Tech1 min readUnited, American Airlines up Japan routes to tap demand fueled by weak yen
SEATTLE, Washington -- U.S. airlines are expanding flights to Japan, with some adding more direct trips and cabin upgrades to capture growing demand f
Nikkei Asia Tech1 min readUS fintech Stripe eyes AI shopping in Japan with launch of Meta's Muse
TOKYO -- U.S.-based Stripe is angling to dominate payments for the field of artificial intelligence agentic commerce services like Meta's Muse, and se
Nikkei Asia Tech1 min readFord, GM hold on to China EV ties despite US curbs
DETROIT, Michigan -- Caught between trade tensions and the need to speed up electrification, U.S. automakers are embracing their Chinese partners tigh
Nikkei Asia Tech1 min readJapan's Mitsubishi Heavy plans $640m commercial shipyard expansion
TOKYO -- Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will invest around 100 billion yen ($638 million) to boost capacity at a shipyard for commercial vessels
Nikkei Asia Tech1 min readThe UN needs a 'secular pope' to mediate in a complex world
TOKYO -- When Dag Hammarskjold visited the Vatican in the 1950s as the secretary-general of the United Nations, Pope Pius XII told him that he was his
Nikkei Asia Tech1 min readIndonesian business doldrums leave a million university graduates jobless
JAKARTA -- It has been a year since Ardy Pohan, a 34-year-old cameraman in Jakarta, lost his job at a national TV station.He has been freelancing sinc
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