CANBERRA -- Australia's BHP announced a new chief executive on Wednesday, with 25-year company veteran Brandon Craig pledging that the world's largest listed miner will increasingly look to the Americas for growth as it pivots to copper and potash fertilizer projects.

SUWON, South Korea -- Samsung Electronics said that the company would sign long-term contracts with its customers as prices for advanced memory semiconductors for artificial intelligence computing continue to skyrocket.

KUALA LUMPUR -- Sunway Healthcare Holdings surged on its debut on Bursa Malaysia on Wednesday, opening at 1.70 ringgit, a 17.2% premium to its initial public offering price of 1.45 ringgit, with 36.2 million shares traded at the start of the session.

HONG KONG -- TikTok parent ByteDance's move to sell mobile game studio Moonton is more of a "strategic partnership" than an outright sale, Zhang Yunfan, head of ByteDance's gaming business, told Nikkei Asia on Tuesday.

BANGKOK/MUMBAI/SHANGHAI -- Asian governments are scrambling to secure supplies of Russian oil after the U.S. temporarily waived sanctions to compensate for disrupted supplies from the Middle East.

HONG KONG -- After losing his wife in the fire at Hong Kong's Wang Fuk Court apartments last November, and then fulfilling her wish to have her ashes scattered at sea, Yip Ka-kui continued to text her daily.

TOKYO -- Japan's large corporations are expected to offer wage increases of 5% or more for a third straight year, as many companies announce the results of annual spring wage talks on Wednesday.

CANBERRA -- Australia's BHP, the world's largest listed mining company, on Wednesday announced chief executive Mike Henry will soon step down from the top job and be replaced by Brandon Craig.

SAN JOSE, California -- Nvidia has received purchase orders for its H200 chips from "many customers" in China with Washington's approval to export, CEO Jensen Huang told reporters Tuesday at the company's annual GTC tech conference.

TOKYO -- Major Japanese shipping operator Mitsui O.S.K. Lines will consider a stock split if its share price remains stable above 6,000 yen, including the possibility of a three-for-one split, according to the company's chief financial officer.