BENGALURU -- Global investors are struggling to find opportunities in India's fast-growing private credit market as currency and tax issues as well as rising domestic competition push them toward big-value, high-yielding deals, even as such prospects become scarcer.

TOKYO -- Japan's Suzuki Motor, best known for its cars and motorcycles, is winning plaudits for an unlikely sideline -- a range of Indian curry products.

TOKYO -- U.S. President Donald Trump warned that nations reliant on oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz will have to ensure the waterway's security themselves, as he claimed the war on Iran is "nearing completion."

TOKYO -- Crude oil futures rose and stocks fell in Asia on Thursday morning following U.S. President Donald Trump's address to the nation about the Iran war, in which he boasted of "overwhelming victories on the battlefield" while also threatening additional strikes against the Islamic Republic.

TOKYO -- Japanese biotech startup Spiber will seek to make a fresh start under new management led by Maya Kawana, daughter of billionaire SoftBank Group chief Masayoshi Son.

TOKYO -- Japan's agriculture and fishing industries are feeling pressure as it becomes more difficult and more expensive to procure fuel and other supplies amid escalating conflict in the Middle East.

TOKYO -- Japan's Hitachi Construction Machinery is taking another crack at the huge U.S. market, bringing a new partner and a new name after a roughly four-decade relationship with Deere & Co.

TOKYO -- Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. will sell the commercial banking business of California-based SMBC Manubank to Bank of Hope, a U.S. regional bank, the Japanese lender said Wednesday.

TOKYO -- Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways are raising fuel surcharges that are added to airfares by as much as double, as the carriers join the transport industry's push to pass on higher fuel costs to customers in response to the Iran war.