Huawei launches cybersecurity center to combat skeptics
GUANGZHOU -- Embattled Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies has opened a new cybersecurity center that allows independent parties to inspect its wares.
The Global Cyber Security and Privacy Protection Transparency Center in Dongguan, China, is the first such facility to be located in the mainland.
The new center is furnished with devices to test Huawei products and is accessible to business clients, suppliers, regulators, standards organizations and other actors.
"As an industry, we need to work together, share best practices, and build our collective capabilities in
Thai sushi lovers aid recovery of Fukushima's fishing fleet
FUKUSHIMA, Japan -- Fish caught off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture has been exported to Thailand, marking a step toward recovery for the northeastern Japanese region still hurting from the 2011 earthquake and nuclear plant meltdowns.
Organizers of the shipment believe that business conditions have changed since 2018, when restaurants in Bangkok serving fish from Fukushima as part of a promotional fair were forced to stop due to protests from consumer groups.
A total of 13 kg of flounder, Japanese sea bass and Japanese red sea
China wants to control Indo-Pacific, Defense Secretary Austin says
NEW YORK -- China is set on controlling the Indo-Pacific, and without a direct line of communication between leaders in Washington and Beijing, a small incident can spark a crisis, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told lawmakers Thursday.
Austin described the lack of a hotline -- popularly called a "red phone" -- as a "critical issue."
He was answering a question from Maine Sen. Angus King, who likened the situation to that portrayed in "The Guns of August,"
Shiseido bets on luxury skin care and China's fickle consumers
TOKYO/SHANGHAI/SEOUL -- Tokyo's Ginza is suffering, bereft of the throngs of Chinese tourists who used to step off buses every day eager to shop in its tony emporiums. But one time-honored boutique is using the lull to upend the shopping experience.
It is a cosmetics shop that started out as a pharmacy almost 150 years ago and has since become famous for the in-person makeup tutorials its beauty consultants offer.
That personal touch is now digital. Shoppers at the Shiseido Global Flagship
Taiwan's army of migrant workers keep its chip economy running
TAIPEI -- Cristylyn was getting ready for a regular night shift at King Yuan Electronics when she was asked to take a COVID-19 test. Filipino colleagues at the factory in Miaoli in western Taiwan had contracted the virus.
"We were all very shocked that this happened," the line worker, who asked to be referred to by an alias, told Nikkei Asia.
King Yuan decided to test all of its more than 7,000 employees, including some 2,000 migrant workers like
Japan's Persol to place foreign workers with 'specified skills' visas
TOKYO -- Japanese temporary placement agency Persol Holdings will start a foreign labor staffing service to meet growing demand for workers with "specified skills" visas.
After COVID-19 entry restrictions are eased, Persol plans to welcome more than 100 nursing care workers from Asia. It also aims to place 3,000 people a year by 2024, expanding into the food service sector and food processing industries.
With the recent accelerated rollout of vaccinations and as the economy recovers, Japan's
Shaktikanta Das is India's 'whatever it takes' banker
Karan Mehrishi is an economics commentator based in India. He is the author of "The India Collective: What India is Really All About" and the forthcoming "The Making of Monetary Policy in India: Imagining the Future."
Reserve Bank of India Gov. Shaktikanta Das has the unenviable task of overseeing a worse economic catastrophe than those befalling any of his predecessors.
With India's economy contracting 7.3% last year and faltering this year as well due to a devastating second COVID wave, right from the beginning
Myanmar junta's solar power bid tests post-coup investor sentiment
BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar's junta has launched an ambitious scheme to build solar farms that can generate up to 320 megawatts across the heartland regions, areas dominated by the predominantly Buddhist Bamar population, in a major test of investor confidence in the new regime.
The Ministry of Electricity and Energy on May 24 issued a tender to build solar power facilities on 12 sites across central Myanmar that would generate between 20MW and 40MW each, on a build-operate-own basis for
Alibaba to capitalize on Hainan duty-free shopping boom
HANGZHOU, China -- A boom in duty-free shopping on Hainan Island since the pandemic has convinced Alibaba Group Holding to upgrade its logistics network there, Chairman Daniel Zhang said Thursday.
With Chinese largely unable or unwilling to travel overseas to shop, Beijing last year widened an exemption to allow domestic travelers to buy up to 100,000 yuan ($15,645) of goods duty-free on the South China Sea island each year, up from 30,00
South Korea's Moon leans toward pardon for jailed Samsung chief
SEOUL -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in, a dyed-in-the-wool progressive who once loathed pardons handed out by predecessors to convicted captains of industry, may have experienced a change of heart when it comes to Lee Jae-yong of Samsung Electronics.
"Many people also have sympathy" for the company's imprisoned vice chairman, Moon said during a luncheon with representatives and leaders of South Korea's four-biggest conglomerates -- Samsung, Hyundai Motor, SK and LG -- at
