SINGAPORE: Asian stocks surged on Thursday (May 21) as some vessels resumed passage through the Strait of Hormuz, while forecast-beating results at Nvidia and a suspended workers' strike at Samsung Electronics lifted shares of chipmakers. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan climbed 2.6 per cent, snapping a four-day streak of losses. Korea's Kospi leapt more than 7 per cent, Taiwanese shares rose 3.5 per cent and Chinese blue-chips gained 1.1 per cent. Brent crude futures