Bloomberg Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. founder Morris Chang said the congratulations he offered Chinese President Xi Jinping about the congress that his ruling Communist Party recently held were his own “personal” view. “Taiwan’s Presidential Office told me beforehand that if there was an opportunity, there was no need to avoid meeting or greeting him,” Chang said Monday at a press ...

  Bloomberg A revival in tourism helped Thailand expand at the fastest pace in more than a year last quarter, even as finer details of the economic data support the case for the central bank to go slow on monetary policy tightening. Gross domestic product rose 4.5% in July-September from a year ago, the National Economic and Social Development Council ...

Bloomberg Prime Planet Energy & Solutions Inc., the battery joint venture of Toyota Motor Corp. and Panasonic Holdings Corp., is searching for a new domestic manufacturing site with sea port and clean energy access as it expands to keep up with consumer demand for electric vehicles, President Hiroaki Koda said in an interview in Tokyo. The company, which formally started ...