Global listings activity has been the highest on record so far this year, with firms raising a total of $24 billion to date, according to Thomson Reuters data, boosted by buoyant stock markets and improved investor interest.
Volkswagen's record year results beat expectations, showing Europe's largest carmaker has enough financial firepower to complete its planned takeover of Porsche.
A Taiwan-owned plant making parts for Apple Inc said it is offering around 80,000 yuan ($12,177) as compensation to each of the 115 workers hit by chemical poisoning but some of the affected Chinese workers said the sum was not enough.
China's government investors more than doubled their investments in major Japanese blue-chip companies in 2010, the Wall Street Journal said, citing investment advisory firms and people familiar with the matter.
China's Sinopec clinched the second-largest single Chinese liquefied natural gas deal, and ventured for the first time into a foreign unconventional gas asset to feed a domestic boom for the clean fuel.
China is going ahead with a G20 seminar on March 31 to develop ideas on reshaping the global monetary system, but has moved it to the city of Nanjing, near Shanghai, a French government source said on Friday.
Japan aims to cut rare earth consumption by a third within a few years and reduce its reliance on China, by providing subsidies for recycling and investing in new ways to limit their use.
A unit of China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd, the country's No.2 mobile operator, will make a 16 billion yuan ($2.4 billion), 180-day short-term commercial paper issue, sources said on Friday.
China has so far evacuated 12,000, or about a third, of its citizens from turmoil in Libya, many of them workers for Chinese-run projects and businesses in the oil-rich nation, official media said on Friday.
Perennial China Retail Trust lodged the prospectus for its planned S$1.1 billion ($861 million) initial public offering in Singapore, in what is likely to be the first of several large asset-backed trust IPOs in the city-state.
China has blocked a microblog search of the name of the U.S. ambassador after he was seen near a pro-democracy gathering, the latest in a series of run-ins between a possible U.S. presidential candidate and the Communist Party.
Chinese censors have blocked the U.S. ambassador's name from searches on a microblogging website after he was spotted at a pro-democracy gathering last weekend.
The Japanese government and private companies will spend $1.34 billion to curb Japan's dependence on rare-earth imports from China by a third, the Nikkei news report said Friday.
Asian stock markets advanced for the first time in five days on Friday as oil prices fell below $100 a barrel on easing concern about supply disruptions.
Taiwan stocks rose 0.66 percent on Friday, with exporters like smartphone maker HTC up amid hopes the weaker Taiwan currency will bring in forex gains and help them compete better with Korean and other overseas rivals.
Hong Kong stocks may receive respite from good corporate results on Friday, but will remain under pressure and will likely trade in a narrow range, weighed down by concerns about volatile oil prices and ongoing turmoil in the Middle East.
China's Huawei Technologies Co has challenged the United States to launch a formal investigation into its business, in an attempt by one of the world's largest telecommunications equipment makers to clear its name from allegations that have blocked U.S. deals.
China's securities regulator plans to review refinancing rules for companies listed on the Nasdaq-style ChiNext board, the official Securities Times reported on Friday.
Access to the professional networking site LinkedIn was disrupted in China on Thursday, following online calls on other sites for gatherings inspired by protests against authoritarian regimes across the Middle East.
Accel Partners is planning to raise $2 billion in new funds and invest more broadly into energy opportunities in China, VentureBeat has learned, even as Peter Wagner, the man who led its cleantech efforts, is leaving the company.
U.S. stock markets ended mixed in a volatile session on Thursday as oil prices eased and encouraging job data helped the market to stabilize in the final hours.
Gap Inc posted a rise in quarterly profit on Thursday that beat the expectations of analysts and boosted its dividend as the apparel retailer strives to spur sales growth at its main casual chain.
