TAIPEI -- China's leading smartphone maker Oppo is developing high-end mobile chips for its premium handsets in a bid to gain control over core components and reduce its reliance on foreign semiconductor suppliers Qualcomm and MediaTek.

The world's fourth-largest smartphone maker by shipments plans to use its own mobile systems-on-a-chip (SoC) in phones due out in 2023 or 2024, depending on the speed of development, two people briefed on the matter told Nikkei Asia

SEOUL -- North Korea claimed on Wednesday that it had successfully tested a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on Tuesday, flexing its military muscles at a time when South Korea, the U.S. and Japan are discussing ways to pressure Pyongyang to come to dialogue.

The state-run Korean Central News Agency said the new missile has many advanced technologies, including pullup movement -- an irregular maneuver designed to avoid interception. It is the second time that Pyongyang has tested an SLBM from a submarine, having

Frederic Neumann is co-head of Asian Economics Research at HSBC.

Containers are piling up in Asian ports. Shippers can't keep up with demand. Sneakers and semiconductors are in desperately short supply. The pandemic has provided a boon to the region's exporters, but this is about to end. Shipments will cool from their torrid pace and trade will slow over the coming year, posing headwinds to Asian growth.

Few would have predicted it. While COVID-19 decimated growth the world over, destroying lives

NEW YORK -- U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell was with President George W. Bush in the Oval Office when aides came bearing news of a major development in Iraq that signaled the end of an invasion of the country by American forces that was not even a month old.

On April 9, 2003, the two came out to watch scenes on TV of Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers toppling the statue of President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdos Square, an event that

PALO ALTO, U.S. -- "Squid Game," the hit South Korean drama, has been watched by 142 million Netflix subscribers worldwide and is expected to bring more paid members to the streaming platform, the U.S. company said in its latest earnings on Tuesday.

Some 4.4 million new paid members joined Netflix in the three months through Sept. 30, beating the projection of 3.5 million and bringing the total subscriber number to 214 million. Little of

TOKYO -- Swedish telecommunication equipment maker Ericsson plans to restructure its operations in China, its second-largest market, after its sales in the country plunged for a second consecutive quarter in the wake of its home government's move to exclude Huawei Technologies and ZTE from 5G mobile networks.

"As a consequence of the loss in sales in China, we have to right-size our sales and delivery organization in China, and that will start in the fourth quarter," said Borge Eckholm, Ericsson's president

TOKYO -- France is reviewing its Indo-Pacific approach after being blindsided by the AUKUS alliance that scuttled its submarine deal with Australia, a French official said in Tokyo on Tuesday, with Paris keen to strengthen ties with Japan and India.

"What is at stake is what kind of Franco-American and trans-Atlantic partnerships, particularly in relation to the Indo-Pacific, there should be," Philippe Errera, the French Foreign Ministry's director-general for political affairs and security, told reporters in reference

TOKYO -- Japan's National Security Council will consider having the country secure the capability to strike enemy missile bases in response to an imminent attack, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday after the group met to discuss North Korea's latest ballistic missile launch.

"We reaffirmed that we will consider all possible options, including enemy base strike capabilities," in a planned update of Japan's national security strategy, Kishida told reporters.

Tokyo is analyzing Tuesday's launch by Pyongyang with an eye on the possibility that

TOKYO -- Corn prices have risen substantially over the past year as China's pork industry rebounds from an outbreak of African swine fever that had forced farmers to cull much of their pig herds.

Corn futures on the Chicago Board of Trade recently hovered above $5 a bushel. While the price is down over 30% from a peak in early May, when unusual weather in the U.S. had raised concerns about a poor harvest, it is still about 30% higher than a year earlier.