DANDONG, China/BEIJING -- China and North Korea are set to revive direct cross-border passenger rail service on Thursday, a Chinese source familiar with the situation said, a development that could help Pyongyang's effort to acquire foreign currency.

HANOI -- The share of Chinese goods in U.S. imports last year fell to its lowest level in more than two decades due to President Donald Trump's tariffs, but Washington still relies on product content from Beijing through indirect trade, an industry report released on Tuesday showed.

HO CHI MINH CITY -- Vietnam on Tuesday called on citizens to stay at home more to save fuel as the impact of the Iran war drives prices higher and threatens supplies in many sectors of the economy, in its biggest shift to remote work since COVID-19.

BANGKOK -- Thailand's largest materials conglomerate, Siam Cement Group, has halted plant operations at a chemical subsidiary due to supply restrictions caused by the war involving Iran .

CANBERRA -- Australian rare earth miner and refiner Lynas has secured important purchase price guarantees in an update to its long-standing arrangement with Japan, the company announced on Tuesday.

TAIPEI -- PC and laptop makers are under growing pressure to raise prices by hundreds of dollars or scale back specifications as a deepening memory chip shortage due to the AI boom pushes up costs.

PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia's central bank has approved the creation of asset-management institutions to acquire bad debts in banking and microfinance institutions, as experts raise concerns over ballooning nonperforming loan rates across the financial services sector.

PALO ALTO, California -- A French startup founded by leading AI researcher Yann LeCun has raised $1.03 billion (890 million euros) from Toyota Motor's venture capital arm and Nvidia, LeCun told Nikkei on Monday.