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Honda Motor Company has been the world’s largest motorcycle maker since 1959, and Japan’s second largest Japanese carmaker. Honda was the first Japanese automobile manufacturer to release a dedicated luxury brand, Acura, in 1986, and also makes garden equipment, marine engines, personal watercraft and power generators, and is involved in aerospace.
A CFMoto booth at the 82nd edition of the International Motorcycle and Accessories Exhibition in Rho, near Milan, Italy. Photo: Getty Images
China exports

Chinese motorcycle exports roar to record highs amid tech gains, upmarket push

Chinese makers drive into upmarket segment and catch up with foreign peers in design and engine development.

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Japan

Japan quake victims face El Nino weather without power, water

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IPO

Chinese self-driving firm Momenta eyes US$750m in Hong Kong IPO

Asia travel

Ride like a champion; a superbike spin around Lombok’s Mandalika circuit

The Indonesian racing track is inviting all riders with a motorbike licence to tear around one of the world’s most technically challenging circuits on a machine built for speed.

Marco Bezzecchi on a practice run at the Mandalika International Street Circuit, on Lombok, Indonesia, before the 2025 Pertamina Grand Prix, during which the Italian rider clocked the fastest lap the track has ever seen. Photo: Getty Images
2026 Xi-Trump summits

Double standards? How North American conservatives viewed 2 China trips

The North American right cast Trump’s Beijing visit as ‘deal-making diplomacy’ while attacking the Canadian leader for ‘hedging with China’.

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Formula One (F1)

Antonelli seeks to extend sensational start with win at F1 Canadian Grand Prix

Italian, 19, expects strong responses from teammate George Russell, who won the race last year, and from Ferrari, McLaren and Red Bull.

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Robotics

Baggage bots: Chinese humanoids clock on at Japanese airports amid labour crunch

Chinese-made humanoids are being deployed at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport as Japan’s aviation industry struggles with a shrinking workforce.

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A humanoid robot pushes a cargo container during a media demonstration at Haneda airport in Tokyo. Photo: Reuters

Video | Honda to exit South Korean car market

With sales sliding across Asia and competition rising, the Japanese carmaker is officially pulling out by year’s end.

Electric & new energy vehicles

More foreign marques face a do-or-die moment as Chinese buyers shun petrol cars

Following Skoda’s exit from China, other carmakers with falling sales are also likely to close shop this year, analysts say.

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China exports

The Iran war could widen China’s EV lead over its global rivals. Here’s why

The ‘eye-watering’ surge in oil prices may push consumers around the world to switch to electric cars, boosting Chinese brands, analysts say.

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Large numbers of cars are lined up ready for export at a port in eastern China’s Jiangsu province. China recently overtook Japan as the world’s largest car exporter. Photo: Xinhua
Formula One (F1)

Aston Martin F1 car dangerous to drivers’ health, may not finish season-opener

Vibrations caused by Honda power unit could damage hands of Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll over course of race.

Aston Martin team principal Adrian Newey believes his F1 car has huge potential, despite the early problems. Photo: Reuters
Formula One (F1)

Wings, power units, sons of DRS: a rough guide to Formula 1 rule changes for 2026

‘Revolutionary’ changes including smaller, lighter and more eco-sustainable cars could make the new season a very different one.

China-Latin America relations

Brazil scraps EV tariff break for Chinese carmaker BYD amid pressure from rivals

US, European and Japanese manufacturers combined to lobby for an end to favourable rules for Chinese kit imports.

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Electric & new energy vehicles

Major foreign carmakers set to stage a comeback in China this year: analysts

Foreign carmakers ‘will fight back because they will have the same products’ as their Chinese rivals, consultancy head Denis Depoux says.

Volkswagen workers seen at an assembly line in the German carmaker’s plant in Qingdao, in eastern Shandong province, on December 23, 2025. Photo: AFP
Technology

Opinion | Amid the bad news of 2025, science cooperation has been a beacon of hope

Even in a difficult year for many, science has demonstrated the ability to transcend borders, unite people and help those in need.

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A visitor interacts with a robot at the Pujiang Innovation Forum in Shanghai on September 21. Photo: Xinhua
Robotics

Why Japan’s robotic pioneers are ceding the humanoid stage to China and the US

Japan’s university system has long centred on engineering faculties led by manufacturing, resulting in a relative shortage of AI talent.

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Japan

Japan’s safe image cracks as car thefts, home intrusions increase

Car thefts have gone up almost 30 per cent from a year earlier while home burglaries have hit a five-year high, police data show.

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Semiconductors

How Nexperia saga exposes Europe’s waning influence in US-China chip war

The dispute around the Dutch chipmaker shows the erosion of Europe’s geopolitical neutrality in the face of escalating US-China rivalry.

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Nexperia is caught in a geopolitical tussle between the Netherlands and China. Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
Semiconductors

China considers export ban exemption for some Nexperia orders

Beijing’s initiative is meant to stabilise the supply of Nexperia chips in global supply chains, particularly those in the car industry.

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Viral stories

Japan engineer goes viral with anime hairstyle, 253 patents, 170kg bench press

Colleagues have grown accustomed to his unique look, commend him for his seriousness and professionalism.

India

Why are hotels in this tiny Indian town serving sushi and ramen?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push for more foreign investments is benefiting Vithalapur, now home to Japanese auto factories.

Japanese expats sit in the lobby of the AJU Imperial hotel in Vithalapur, Gujarat, India, on August 26. Photo: Reuters
Electric & new energy vehicles

China’s BYD brings price war to Japan in bid to ignite EV demand

While discounting helped make BYD the most popular EV brand in China, the tactic could backfire in Japan.

A BYD dealership is seen on April 4, 2023, in Yokohama near Tokyo. Photo: AP Photo
Japan

The upside of US tariffs in Japan: airline profits soar on long-haul demand

JAL and ANA thrive as premium travel to the US surges amid supply chain shifts and business relocations.

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Electric & new energy vehicles

China aims to dominate the skies in the race to make flying cars the transport of the future

Xpeng subsidiary expects to start mass production next month and begin deliveries of its eVTOLs in the second half of 2026.

Good Schools Guide

5 trailblazing Hong Kong school alumni who have excelled globally

An Olympic fencer, battery recycling CEO, restaurateur and others are all successfully forging their own path.

From left: Annie Lo, Vivian Kong and Sarah Fleischer, three of Hong Kong’s talented school alumni who have achieved success internationally as well as at home. Photos: HKIS, Xinhua, GSIS
US-ally trade wars

Opinion | Why Asian exporters can’t afford a passive approach to US politics

Asian firms and governments must stop viewing tariffs as temporary obstacles and start treating them as recurring stress tests.

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New vehicles are parked at Daikoku Pier in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, on April 11. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on July 23 said US auto tariffs would be cut to 15 per cent from 25 per cent, after the two countries reached a trade deal. Photo: AFP
Electric & new energy vehicles

Chinese carmaker GAC’s electric-van unit takes aim at European market

Miraco Motor hopes to grab 10 per cent of Europe’s annual sales of 1.7 million vans.

Canada

Canada has ‘nearly zero’ tariffs on US goods? Not true, finance minister says

Francois-Philippe Champagne said 70 per cent of March’s counter-tariffs were still being enforced, despite pause on certain categories.

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