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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: News when you want it. With Bloomberg News Now, I'm

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Speaker 2: Brian Curtis in Hong Kong. Ramadan has begun in Gaza

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Speaker 2: with no ceasefire between Israel and Hamas Bloomberg's Ed Baxter reports,

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Speaker 2: pressure from the United States is starting to build.

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Speaker 3: President Biden says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin net and Yahoo

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Speaker 3: needs to pay more attention to stopping the siege on civilians.

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Speaker 4: He's hurting Israel more than helping Israel by making the

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Speaker 4: rest of the world. It's contrary to what Israel stands for,

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Speaker 4: and I think it's a big mistake. So I want

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Speaker 4: to see a ceasefire, and I'm starting with a major,

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Speaker 4: major exchange of prisoners.

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Speaker 3: Biden on MSNBC, responding to being caught on Hot Mike

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Speaker 3: after the State of the Union, saying he wants to

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Speaker 3: have a come to Jesus with net and Yahoo. Biden

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Speaker 3: does say, of course net and Yahoo has the right

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Speaker 3: to defend himself, but AID must get in. Ed Baxter

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Speaker 3: Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: Japan and the United States are discussing collaborating on military

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Speaker 2: gear to provide more munitions to Ukraine. The Yomiuri newspaper

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Speaker 2: says that the two sides are looking for ways for

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Speaker 2: Japan to repair American warships and jet fighters. The allies

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Speaker 2: are trying to put together an arrangement in conjunction with

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Speaker 2: an April tenth summit in Washington between Prime Minister Fumio

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Speaker 2: Kishida and President Joe Biden. Kishida and Biden are expected

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Speaker 2: to accelerate complimentary relations and look at ways to strengthen

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Speaker 2: the supply chains for their defense equipment and that with

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Speaker 2: China in mind. While two Indonesian pilots have been suspended

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Speaker 2: from duties after they were found falling asleep while flying

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Speaker 2: a domestic flight. For Batik Air Flight sixty seven twenty

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Speaker 2: three was on its way to Jakarta from Kandari in

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Speaker 2: Suluwesi on January twenty fifth. Some one hundred fifty three

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Speaker 2: passengers were on board. Neither the pilot nor the co

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Speaker 2: pilot responded to communications from the air traffic controllers and

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Speaker 2: from another plane. Twenty eight minutes after the last recorded

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Speaker 2: transmission from the co pilot, the captain woke up and

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Speaker 2: became aware that the aircraft was not on course. The

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Speaker 2: National Transportation Safety Commission wrote that this was a serious incident.

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Speaker 2: South Korea will send out its first licensed suspension notices

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Speaker 2: to thousands of doctors. These are doctors that walked off

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Speaker 2: their jobs in protest at a government plan to increase

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Speaker 2: medical school enrollment. The doctors who received the notices will

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Speaker 2: have to submit their views to the government by March

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Speaker 2: twenty fifth. Yondapp News said that a failure to do

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Speaker 2: so could ultimately lead to the suspension of their medical

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Speaker 2: license for several months. The walkout will soon enter its

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Speaker 2: fourth week, with no signs of a quick ending. Some

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Speaker 2: attendees at the ceremony tonight were delayed by protesters outside

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Speaker 2: the theater. Those protesters calling for a ceasefire in the

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Speaker 2: Israel Hamas war. The US is considering blacklisting a key

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Speaker 2: Chinese chip company. More from Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini, We're hearing.

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Speaker 1: The Biden administration is weighing sanctions on memory chip maker

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Speaker 1: Chang Shin Memory Technologies. Sources tell us the Commerce Department's

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Speaker 1: Bureau of Industry and Security is considering adding Chung Shin

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Speaker 1: to its so called entity list, I would restrict the

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Speaker 1: company's access to US technology, and Commerce is also considering

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Speaker 1: restricting five other Chinese firms courting to sources, and Hou's

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Speaker 1: Foreign Affairs Committee chair Michael mccallo of Texas says the

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Speaker 1: sanctions would be a response by the Budon administration to

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Speaker 1: a chip breakthrough by Huawei Technologies last year. Denise Pelgriny

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: In other news, China is raising more than twenty seven

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Speaker 2: billion dollars for its largest chip fund to date. Bloomberg's

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Speaker 2: Joan Wong has that story from Hong Kong.

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Speaker 5: The fund is called National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund

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Speaker 5: is gathering a poll of capital for its third vehicle.

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Speaker 5: A majority of the capital for what's being called the

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Speaker 5: Big Fund is expected to come from local governments, their

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Speaker 5: investment arms and soees. We hear the central government will

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Speaker 5: only contribute a fraction. The latest funding efforts come as

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Speaker 5: the US prepares to escalate technology curbs on Chinese chips

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Speaker 5: and AI development. The fund will be used to diversify

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Speaker 5: deal sourcing and investment strategies in Hong Kong, Join Wong

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Speaker 5: Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: Japan has revised its fourth quarter economic data hire it

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Speaker 2: reverses a quarterly contraction into positive growth, and in so

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Speaker 2: doing avoids a technical recession. GDP expanded at an annualized

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Speaker 2: rate of zero point four percent in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 2: rather than contracting zero point four percent as was earlier reported.

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Speaker 2: An upward revision to capital investment figures was a key driver.

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Speaker 2: Oppenheimer picked up a total of seven Academy Awards, including

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Speaker 2: Best Picture and Best Director for Christopher Nolan. Killian Murphy

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Speaker 2: won the Best Actor award for his portrayal of Robert Oppenheimer.

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Speaker 2: Robert Downey Junior picked up Best Supporting Actor for playing

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Speaker 2: his nemesis Lewis Strauss. Poor Things star Emma Stone won

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Speaker 2: the award for Best Actress as well. Divine Joy Randolph

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Speaker 2: took home the award for Best Supporting Actress for her

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Speaker 2: work in The Holdovers and Barbie Has One. Best Original

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Speaker 2: Song for Billie Eilish's What Was I Made For? Some

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Speaker 2: attendees at the ceremony tonight were delayed by protesters outside

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Speaker 2: the theater. The protesters were calling for a ceasefire in

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Speaker 2: the Israel Hamas war. That's news when you want it

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Speaker 2: with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Brian Curtis. This is Bloomberg