WASHINGTON -- New York City's subway operator has requested more information from Mitsubishi Electric about how a faked data scandal affects equipment on its trains and will require the Japanese supplier to make any necessary improvements, a transit official told Nikkei on Wednesday.

"The MTA is aware of questions raised about Mitsubishi inspection data and we are demanding additional information," said Demetrius Crichlow, the Metropolitan Transit Authority's acting senior vice president for subways.

The agency will seek "any corrective action that may be necessary from Mitsubishi,

SHANGHAI -- The World Artificial Intelligence Conference has traditionally given leading Chinese technology companies a stage on which to reveal the latest advancements in the field. This year, however, companies seemed more intent on showing their contributions to society and the government.

The marked change in tone at the annual conference in Shanghai reflects the increased regulatory pressure Beijing has placed on its tech sector and the desire of companies to stay out of regulators' crosshairs. It also signals that the government, not industry, has the upper hand.

Baidu CEO

SINGAPORE -- As the upheaval in Malaysia's political scene intensifies, the approval of a new party established by influential former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has the potential to help spur a realignment.

The 95-year-old Mahathir said Thursday that his Pejuang party, formed back in August , has been officially registered. The news came on the heels of the United Malays National Organization, the largest party in the ruling coalition, withdrawing support for Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and demanding his resignation.

With UMNO's defection

TOKYO -- Japan Display will sell a manufacturing subsidiary to Taiwanese contract assembler Wistron for roughly 8 billion yen ($72.3 million), the struggling panel maker said Thursday, the latest in a series of asset sales aimed at reducing fixed costs.

Japan Display, known as JDI, will continue having Kaohsiung Opto-Electronics produce the company's liquid crystal display modules for automobiles and industrial machinery after the sale, under an outsourcing contract with Wistron.

A wholly owned unit of Wistron will acquire the shares of

TOKYO -- The Tokyo Olympics will be held without spectators at venues in the capital and three surrounding prefectures, the organizing committee decided Thursday, as the city enters a fourth state of emergency after a surge in COVID-19 infections.

After announcing a ban on spectators at Tokyo venues, the organizing committee consulted with Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba prefectures and decided to hold events without fans there as well.

The Tokyo Olympics, postponed by one year due to the pandemic, now will be held without fans at the opening

NEW YORK -- U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks has kicked off a multistate trip in New England -- a hub of military installations vital to taking on a rising China, including sites for building and maintaining submarines and destroyers.

Hicks visited two shipyards in Maine on Wednesday, one federally owned and the other private.

The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, is one of the U.S. Navy's four remaining public shipyards. It handles maintenance and modernization work for Los Angeles-

SEOUL -- North Korea has removed from its top leadership an official who played a major role in developing the regime's nuclear and missile arsenal, a newly released photo indicates.

The evident downgrade of Ri Pyong Chol, a leading adviser to Kim Jong Un, comes just over a week after the autocrat mentioned a "grave incident" that hobbled the country's coronavirus response.

The presidium of the Politburo, the highest decision-making body of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, previously had five members including

From Joyce Ho, principal representative at the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Tokyo.

I write to express our strong disagreement with the claims that the recent arrests under the National Security Law at a media organization is an act to suppress freedom of speech in Hong Kong.

Endangering national security is a very serious crime in any place around the world. The case in question concerns a suspected conspiracy involving the use of journalistic work as a tool to collude with a foreign country or external elements to impose sanctions or engage in hostile

Angela Huyue Zhang is director of the Center for Chinese Law at the University of Hong Kong. She is author of "Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation."

When Jean Liu, the president of Didi Chuxing, was asked during an interview with Bloomberg Television why she had given up the Goldman Sachs managing director's role to join the ride-hailing giant, her reply was that she saw Didi's potential to make a "huge impact."

She was right, of course