TOKYO -- Roughly 110 Japanese corporations and organizations, including Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance and railway operator Hankyu, will enter the market for trading greenhouse gas emission credits, Nikkei has found, with the Iran war raising awareness for shrinking carbon footprints.

HANOI -- Counterfeit products that closely resemble Japanese brands and unauthorized imports are circulating in Cambodia, adding to the risks of doing business in the Southeast Asian nation.

TOKYO -- Japanese trading house Marubeni has gained a foothold in European and Latin American retail markets for electricity and natural gas with the acquisition of a Spanish utility as demand for data center power grows.

TOKYO -- SoftBank Group has finalized the terms for the issuance of $3.6 billion in foreign-currency bonds, the company's first offering of such securities since October.

TOKYO -- Honda Motor will launch a new electric vehicle in Japan on Friday, becoming the first local automaker to bring in a China-made model.

TOKYO -- Daikin Industries, the world's largest air conditioner maker, is facing pressure from activist investor Elliott Management to buy back up to 1 trillion yen ($6.3 billion) of its shares over the next few years, Nikkei learned Thursday.

TOKYO -- Some vessels traveling the Strait of Hormuz are trying to navigate closures by Iran and the U.S. by blocking detection of their location or altering their ship information, an analysis shows, as global shipping continues to be rocked by the Mideast conflict.

Hi everyone! This is Cheng Ting-Fang, your #techAsia host for this week.

In just the past few days, I found myself at two groundbreaking ceremonies for chip suppliers. One was down in southern Taiwan in Kaohsiung, close to TSMC's most cutting-edge 2-nanometer plants. The other was in Taipei, near where new offices are being taken over by Nvidia and AMD. Despite the celebratory mood, both events carried the same underlying message: Demand is still outpacing supply.

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