Heineken said Thursday its beer sales fell in the first quarter but kept profit forecasts for the year unchanged despite concerns over an "increasingly complex" global economic environment.

South Korea's biggest carmaker Hyundai Motor saw a double-digit fall in its first-quarter operating profit due to the negative effect of the US tariff imposition, the company said Thursday.

US chipmaker Micron Technology is reportedly pushing the US Congress to pass legislation that would impose new export restrictions on chipmaking equipment used by Chinese semiconductor firms, Reuters reported.

Stepping into the Fangchenggang base of Liuzhou Steel Group on Qisha Peninsula, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, one is easily attracted by multiple trains rattling from time to time along rail tracks stretching around 2 kilometers, carrying molten iron with a temperature of 1,500 deg

Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index topped 60,000 for the first time on Thursday.

China's chain hotel market sustained robust expansion in 2025, with chain hotel room inventory growing by 760,000 units, or 10.74 percent year on year, an industry report said on Wednesday.By the end of 2025, the country was running approximately 106,300 chain hotels, offering a combined 7.83