HONG KONG (Reuters) – KKR & Co Inc has poached Kate Richdale, Goldman Sachs Group Inc chair of Asia investment banking ex-Japan. Richdale will be KKR’s head of strategy and business development in the Asia-Pacific region, and will also work with KKR’s Asia inv... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – A Japanese space probe named after a falcon, Hayabusa 2, has touched down on an asteroid more than 300 million km (186 million miles) from Earth on a mission to seek clues about the origins of life, Japan’s space agency said on Friday. The sp... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – The Japanese subsidiary of Pfizer Inc is recalling a drug for high blood pressure which was found to contain a substance that can cause cancer, the drugmaker said on Friday. More than 763,000 tablets of the drug Amvalo, which were manufacture... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Nissan Motor Co Ltd on Monday said it was the target of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) inquiry, as the Japanese automaker itself faces scrutiny in a financial scandal it has blamed on ousted chairman Carlos Ghosn. Nissan has ... More »
TORONTO/BEIJING (Reuters) – A top executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies is due back in a Canadian court on Monday where she’ll fight for her freedom with the help of pressure from Beijing against prosecutors’ claims she cannot be trusted. Huawei ... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s big three telecom operators plan not to use current equipment and upcoming fifth-generation (5G) gear from China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] and ZTE Corp (0763.HK) (000063.SZ), Kyodo News reported on Monday. The news, for wh... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) is set to raise 2.65 trillion yen ($23.5 billion) in Japan’s biggest-ever IPO – a share sale widely regarded as finalizing the group’s transition from domestic telco to a monolithic global tech investor. Telco uni... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Hitachi Ltd (6501.T) shares rose as much as 2.9 percent on Monday after Japan’s TV Asahi reported the firm is considering scrapping its 3 trillion yen ($26.61 billion) nuclear project in Britain due to projections of further increases in cons... More »
