Japan’s Nintendo Co Ltd (7974.T) sold 23% fewer Switch consoles in the April-June quarter than a year earlier following chip shortages, it said on Wednesday. The Kyoto-based gaming company said it expected procurement to improve “from late summer towards autumn” and maintained...
U.S. payments firm PayPal (PYPL.O) has registered as an electronic systems operator in Indonesia and its customers can now access its services, the company said on Wednesday. PayPal was one of several websites that Indonesia blocked at the weekend because of their...
Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) is attempting to find evidence that Elon Musk tried to torpedo the financing of his $44 billion takeover deal for the social media company while also looking into his motivation for backing out of the deal, legal experts said....
Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) is expected to report a double-digit drop in first-quarter profit this week, as a chip shortage and supply-chain woes forced the world’s top automaker by sales to repeatedly slash production targets. The Japanese car maker cut its monthly...
Search teams have located two more bodies in an area scorched by a forest fire raging for a fifth day in northern California near the Oregon border, bringing to four the number of lives lost in the state’s biggest blaze...
Indonesia is aiming to get its foot and mouth disease (FMD)outbreak under control by the end of this year, a government official said on Tuesday, as it forges ahead with a programme to vaccinate millions of livestock. More than 455,000...
A total of 2,171 people have been infected with monkeypox in France, health minister Francois Braun said on Tuesday Braun told parliament France was one of the first countries to start offering free vaccination against the disease and that 42,000...
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will be forced to reconsider a peace plan agreed with Myanmar if its military rulers execute more prisoners, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Wednesday. The 10-nation bloc, which is hosting a...
Australian retail sales posted a solid rise in real terms last quarter even as swelling prices ate up more of the consumer dollar, though there are signs that higher borrowing costs are finally turning the tide on spending. Data from...
The all-female W Series motor racing championship has cancelled plans to race in Japan for the first time and will instead make its Asian debut in Singapore in October, organisers said on Wednesday. The decision was due to “unforeseeable operational...
