Shares of South Korean budget carrier Jeju Air hit their lowest on record on Monday, after the deadliest air crash in the country killed 179 people.
December 30, 2024
South Korean officials are investigating the crash landing of a passenger jet that's one of the deadliest disasters in that nation's aviation history
December 29, 2024
A jetliner skidded off a runway, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into flames in South Korea after its landing gear apparently failed to deploy
December 29, 2024
Japan's factory activity shrank at a slower pace in December as declines in production and new orders eased, a private-sector survey showed on Monday, edging closer to stabilisation
December 30, 2024
Huawei cut the prices of a variety of high-end devices, including mobile phones, by up to 3,000 yuan ($411) over the weekend on one of China's leading e-commerce platforms, it said
December 30, 2024
A record 3.4 million young Chinese flocked to the civil service exam this year, lured by the prospect of lifetime job security and perks including subsidised housing
December 30, 2024
It's been 10-11 years since six South Koreans have been detained in North Korea, but there are still no words on whether they are still alive
December 30, 2024
South Korea's factory output fell more sharply than expected in November, government data showed on Monday, amid slowing exports and weakening business confidence.
December 29, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has celebrated the completion of a new fish farm in the east coast and called for developing rural areas, state media KCNA said on
December 29, 2024
The deadliest air accident ever in South Korea killed 179 people on Sunday, when an airliner belly-landed and skidded off
December 29, 2024
Jeon Je-young keeps playing the video of the plane with his daughter and another 180 people on board slamming into a wall and
December 29, 2024
The crash of Jeju Air flight 7C2216 on Sunday marks the deadliest ever on South Korean soil and the worst involving a South Korean airline since a 1997 Korean Air
December 29, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says he will implement the “toughest” anti-U.S. policy, less than a month before Donald Trump takes office as U.S. president
December 29, 2024
Uncertainty surrounds the deadliest plane crash on South Korean soil, aviation experts said on Sunday, questioning how much impact a potential bird strike
December 29, 2024
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday that the passenger plane that crashed in Kazakhstan killing 38 people had been damaged due to shooting from the ground in Russia,
December 29, 2024
The Wednesday crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan has killed 38 of 67 people on board
December 26, 2024
Four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka says she won’t “hang around” in tennis if her results fail to match her high expectations
December 29, 2024
When South Korea's acting President Choi Sang-mok arrived at the scene of the deadliest air disaster on the country's soil on Sunday, he had been on the job for less
December 29, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held a key policy-setting meeting of the country's ruling party last week ahead of the new year, state media KCNA reported on Sunday.
December 28, 2024
Putin apologizes over ‘tragic’ Azerbaijan Airlines crash, without admitting responsibility
December 28, 2024
A suicide bomber killed the head of police intelligence in Iran's southern port city of Bandar Lengeh on Saturday, Iranian state media reported.
December 28, 2024A passenger jet operated by Azerbaijan Airlines crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, after diverting from an
December 27, 2024
Russia may have downed Azerbaijani jet after confusing it for Ukrainian drone, US official says. Here’s what we know
December 26, 2024
Man who plowed car into crowd in China, killing 35, sentenced to death
December 28, 2024
China is building new detention centers all over the country as Xi Jinping widens corruption purge
December 28, 2024
Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister widely regarded as the architect of the country’s economic reform program, has been cremated after a state funeral
December 28, 2024
Afghanistan's Defense Ministry says its forces hit several points inside Pakistan in retaliation for deadly airstrikes
December 28, 2024Afghan Taliban forces targeted "several points" in neighbouring Pakistan, Afghanistan's defence ministry said on Saturday, days after Pakistani aircraft
December 28, 2024The body of Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister whose death has sparked outpourings of grief at home and accolades from abroad, was cremated on Sunday
December 28, 2024
China will reduce import tariffs on ethane and certain recycled copper and aluminium raw materials from next year, the government said on Saturday.
December 28, 2024
The 163 Chinese workers found by Brazil's labor ministry in what it described as "slavery-like conditions" at a factory construction site owned by Chinese
December 27, 2024
Several North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine die from injuries, Zelensky says
December 27, 2024
North Korean troops deployed in Russia's Kursk region are suffering heavy losses and being left unprotected by the Russian forces they are fighting alongside, Ukrainian President Volodymyr
December 27, 2024
U.S. stocks wrapped up Christmas week on Friday with retracements of double-digit uptrends, and, alongside the
December 27, 2024
U.S. and Azerbaijani officials have said weapons fire may have brought down an Azerbaijani airliner that crashed on Wednesday, killing 38 people
December 27, 2024
Stocks are closing lower as Wall Street ends a holiday-shortened week on a down note
December 27, 2024
North Korean forces are experiencing mass casualties on the front lines of Russia's war against Ukraine, with a thousand of their troops killed or wounded in the last
December 27, 2024
Azerbaijan Airlines says plane crashed after ‘external interference’ as questions mount over possible Russian involvement
December 27, 2024
The Japanese yen rose off a five-month low against the dollar on Friday after a summary of opinions from the Bank of Japan’s December policy meeting showed some
December 27, 2024
A deepening political crisis in South Korea has not diminished the military readiness of 28,500 troops stationed in the Asian state, a U.S. official said on Friday, but Washington is
December 27, 2024
Oil prices settled more than 1% higher on Friday and recorded a weekly gain in low trading volume ahead of year-end, buoyed by a larger-than-expected drawdown from
December 27, 2024
South Korea’s opposition-controlled National Assembly has voted to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo
December 27, 2024
Indian household spending on non-food items such as transport, garments and entertainment rose in both rural and urban areas in 2023/24 while outlays on staples
December 27, 2024
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December 27, 2024
Two passengers and one crew member on the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan told Reuters that they heard at least one loud bang
December 27, 2024
A court in China has sentenced a man to death for killing 35 people last month by driving into crowd, in an attack that raised national concern about mass killings
December 27, 2024
The driver who rammed his car into a crowd in southern China's Zhuhai city, killing at least 35 people, has been sentenced to death, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported on
December 27, 2024
Blurry images of two seemingly new Chinese military aircraft with stealthy characteristics appeared online on Friday, with defence experts saying they were clearly advanced
December 27, 2024
The impeachment of South Korea’s acting President Han Duck-soo has plunged the country into further political turmoil, coming less than two weeks after lawmakers impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol
December 27, 2024
How Kremlin disinformation could hide the cause of the Azerbaijan Airlines crash
December 27, 2024Shell has shut down an oil processing unit at its Pulau Bukom facility to investigate a suspected leak, Singapore's Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) and National Environment Agency (NEA)
December 27, 2024
Russia's aviation watchdog said on Friday that an Azerbaijan Airlines plane which crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday had decided to reroute from its original destination in Chechnya
December 27, 2024
Taiwan’s science ministry warned on Friday that funding for areas such as semiconductors, AI and aerospace could be reduced by T$20 billion ($609.11 million) for next
December 27, 2024
A majority of South Korea's parliament voted on Friday to impeach acting president Han Duck-soo.
December 27, 2024
South Korea's parliament impeached acting President Han Duck-soo on Friday, less than two weeks after suspending President Yoon Suk Yeol's powers over his
December 26, 2024
The Chinese government has placed sanctions on seven companies in response to recent U.S. announcements of military sales and aid to Taiwan, the self-governing island that China claims as part of its territory
December 27, 2024
Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok became on Friday South Korea's second acting president in two weeks, as lawmakers voted to impeach the current acting leader, Prime
December 27, 2024
China launches new amphibious assault ship in a race to rival US military
December 27, 2024
South Korean parliament votes to impeach acting president Han Duck-soo
December 27, 2024
Taiwan’s presidential office runs first ‘tabletop’ simulation of Chinese military escalation
December 27, 2024
Japan’s scenic hot springs town restricting tourists amid fights over the best photo spots
December 27, 2024
Osamu Suzuki, an ingenious pennypincher who led Japan's Suzuki Motor for more than four decades and played a key role in turning India into a flourishing auto market,
December 27, 2024
Osamu Suzuki, the charismatic former boss of Japanese mini-vehicle maker Suzuki Motor Corp., has died
December 27, 2024
China has sanctioned seven military industrial companies and related senior executives over U.S. arms assistance and sales to Taiwan, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Friday.
December 27, 2024
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group's CEO said the firm may make more than 1.2 trillion yen ($7.65 billion) net profit in the year from next April, as a
December 27, 2024
KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian man was caned at a mosque in the northeastern state of Terengganu on Friday for the Islamic crime of close proximity with a non-family member of the opposite sex, local
December 27, 2024
China's coast guard conducted patrols around the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on Friday to safeguard China's territorial rights, state television CCTV reported.
December 27, 2024Japanese manufacturing giant Nidec said on Friday it planned to launch a 257 billion yen ($1.6 billion) bid for Makino Milling Machine, a surprise
December 26, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, impeached for his decision to briefly impose martial law, is building a legal team to represent him at the Constitutional Court that will decide his
December 27, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Friday he was eager to move into his official residence despite long-standing rumours about hauntings at the historic site witness to
December 27, 2024
China's Jinjiang Group is in the spotlight after Brazil's labour authorities said workers at a factory it is building for electric vehicle maker BYD were victims of human
December 27, 2024
China will extend licence age limits for drivers of medium-sized and large buses as well as trucks, as part of broader efforts to address the challenges posed by an aging
December 27, 2024
Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, who was impeached on Friday as South Korea's acting president, is a career technocrat whose wide-ranging experience and reputation for
December 14, 2024
China's President Xi Jinping will visit Russia in 2025, Russia's state-run RIA news agency quoted Moscow's ambassador to Beijing as saying early on Friday.
December 27, 2024
Chinese workers at a construction site in Brazil for a factory owned by China's electric vehicle producer BYD are victims of human trafficking,
December 27, 2024
South Korea’s main opposition party has submitted a motion to impeach the country’s acting leader over his reluctance to fill three Constitutional Court vacancies ahead of the court’s review of rebellion charges against impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol stemming from his short-lived martial law decree on Dec. 3
December 26, 2024
Authorities in India have declared a seven-day mourning period to honor Manmohan Singh as politicians and public paid tributes to the country’s former prime minister widely regarded as the architect of India’s economic reform program
December 27, 2024
CAS Space, one of China's leading commercial rocket firms, said its Lijian-1 rocket unexpectedly failed on Friday, marking the first setback for the company's main launch vehicle
December 27, 2024India's banking system liquidity deficit is set to widen further in the upcoming quarter, leading to more voices demanding durable liquidity injection.
December 27, 2024
China said on Friday its 2023 gross domestic product was revised upward due in part to changes in housing sector calculation methods, which would also affect the size of the
December 27, 2024
South Korea's export growth is expected to have risen in December for a 15th straight month, but analysts feel momentum could moderate in the year ahead
December 27, 2024
Manmohan Singh, India’s former prime minister, dies aged 92
December 26, 2024
The Bank of Japan released for the first time estimates on how future interest rate hikes could affect its earnings, which showed it will briefly suffer red ink of up
December 27, 2024
Indian cinema is best known for Bollywood extravaganzas, but an art-house film about three women navigating loneliness and love in a metropolis is
December 27, 2024
China's industrial profits fell at a slower clip in November, official data showed on Friday, but the annual decline in earnings this year is expected to be the worst in over two
December 27, 2024
Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD is offering discounts until Jan. 26 on two of its hybrid and EV models, according to its website.
December 27, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's cabinet on Friday approved a record $730 billion budget for the next fiscal year, while limiting new bond issuance to the
December 27, 2024
Some Bank of Japan policymakers saw conditions falling into place for an imminent rate hike with one predicting a move "in the near future," a summary of opinions at
December 27, 2024
Core inflation in Japan's capital accelerated in December while services inflation held steady, data showed on Friday, keeping alive market
December 26, 2024
Aviation experts say that Russian air defense fire was likely responsible for the Azerbaijani plane crash the day before that killed 38 people and left all 29 survivors injured
December 26, 2024
South Korea's main opposition party introduced a bill to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo on Thursday, a day before it plans to seek a vote on the move, which could
December 26, 2024
China’s leader Xi Jinping wants the recent spree of mass killings that shocked the country not to happen again
December 27, 2024
Ukraine's military intelligence says North Korean troops are suffering heavy losses in Russia's Kursk region and face logistical difficulties as a result of Ukrainian attacks
December 26, 2024
Stock indexes drifted to a mixed finish on Wall Street as some heavyweight technology and communications sector stocks offset gains elsewhere in the market
December 26, 2024
India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, widely regarded as the architect of India’s economic reform program and a landmark nuclear deal with the United States, has died
December 26, 2024
Wall Street closed mixed on Thursday and the U.S. benchmark Treasury yield eased after scaling the highest level since May in light, directionless
December 26, 2024
Russian air defences downed an Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan, killing 38 people, four sources with knowledge of the
December 26, 2024
Oil edged lower on Thursday in light holiday trade as the dollar's strength offset hopes for additional fiscal stimulus in China, the world's biggest oil importer.
December 26, 2024
Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister who governed the South Asian country for two terms and liberalised its economy in an earlier stint as finance minister, has died,
December 26, 2024
Described as a "reluctant king" in his first stint as prime minister, the soft-spoken Manmohan Singh, who died on Thursday at the age of
December 26, 2024
A Cambodian court has convicted an opposition party leader of inciting social disorder and sentenced him to two years in prison, the latest legal assault on opponents and critics of the government of Prime Minister Hun Manet
December 26, 2024South Korean retailer Shinsegae plans to set up a joint venture with Alibaba International, Shinsegae affiliate E-Mart said on Thursday.
December 26, 2024
Chinese battery manufacturer CATL said on Thursday it plans to seek a listing in Hong Kong, a Shenzhen Stock Exchange filing showed.
December 26, 2024
As season two of Netflix's hit series “Squid Game” returns Thursday, viewers can expect more untimely deaths for many of its characters
December 26, 2024
Here are a few takeaways on electric vehicles in 2024: As of November, the global EV market grew by 25% year-over-year
December 26, 2024
NATO on Thursday called for a full investigation into the cause of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash that killed 38 people.
December 26, 2024
People are gathering in prayer and visiting mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami, one of modern history’s worst natural disasters
December 26, 2024
Experts on politics in Canada, Germany, Chile, Belarus and the Philippines weigh in on what to expect as each country’s voters prepare to head to the ballot box.
December 26, 2024
Japan's Nippon Steel said on Thursday it has extended the closing date for its $14.9 billion purchase of U.S. Steel as U.S.
December 26, 2024
Taiwan's Presidential Office held its first "tabletop" exercise involving government agencies beyond the armed forces on Thursday, simulating a military escalation with
December 26, 2024
A Pakistani military court sentenced sixty civilians to jail time ranging from 2 to 10 years in connection with attacks on military facilities following the arrest
December 26, 2024
India's economy is expected to grow at around 6.5% in fiscal year 2024/25, closer to the lower end of its 6.5%-7% projection, as global uncertainties pose a dampening threat, the government
December 26, 2024
An Embraer passenger jet crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing 38 people, after
December 25, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday sent condolences to the presidents of Azerbaijan, Russia and Kazakhstan for the casualties caused by the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash,
December 26, 2024
India is considering cutting income tax for individuals making up to 1.5 million rupees ($17,590) a year in February's budget to provide relief to the middle class
December 26, 2024
China revised upwards on Thursday the size of its economy by 2.7%, but said the change would have little impact on growth this year, as policymakers
December 26, 2024
Survivors and families of victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami 20 years ago visited mass graves, lit candles and comforted one
December 26, 2024
Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan will attempt to merge and create the world’s third-largest automaker by sales as the industry undergoes dramatic changes in its transition away from fossil fuels
December 23, 2024
Kazakhstan's senate chairman said on Thursday that the cause of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash was still unknown.
December 26, 2024
A Cambodian opposition politician was sentenced on Thursday to two years in jail and banned from elections for inciting social unrest, his lawyer said, the latest in a series of
December 26, 2024Jinjiang Group, a contractor for Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD, said on Thursday Brazilian authorities' portrayal of their employees as "enslaved" was inconsistent
December 26, 2024
Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashes in Kazakhstan, leaving 38 dead, 29 survivors, officials say
December 25, 2024
China's foreign ministry on Thursday urged the Philippines to return to "peaceful development", saying Manila's decision to deploy a U.S. medium-range missile system in military
December 26, 2024
A spokesperson for Chinese automaker BYD has objected to reports about poor conditions at a construction site in Brazil where it is building a factory, saying the allegations were aimed at “smearing” China and Chinese brands
December 26, 2024
Taiwan prosecutors have charged a former mayor of Taipei who heads a small opposition party with accepting T$17.1 million ($522,392) in bribes over a major property development in
December 26, 2024
Japan's Nippon Steel said on Thursday it has extended the closing period for its $15 billion purchase of U.S.
December 25, 2024
The World Bank raised on Thursday its forecast for China's economic growth in 2024 and 2025, but warned that subdued household and business confidence, along with headwinds in the property
December 26, 2024
Prosecutors in Taiwan indicted former presidential candidate and Taiwan People’s Party founder Ko Wen-je on corruption charges, accusing him of taking bribes during his time as mayor of Taiwan’s capital
December 26, 2024
China has approved the construction of what will be the world's largest hydropower dam, kicking off an ambitious project on the eastern rim of the Tibetan plateau that could affect
December 26, 2024
Japan Airlines (JAL) said on Thursday its systems returned to normal, with same-day ticket sales resuming, after a cyberattack delayed some domestic and international flights.
December 26, 2024
Japan Airlines has been hit by a cyberattack that caused delays to more than 20 domestic flights, but it managed to restore its systems within hours
December 26, 2024
Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has transformed her resilience into purpose
December 25, 2024
An Azerbaijani airliner with 67 people onboard has crashed near the Kazakhstani city of Aktau and an official says 38 people were killed and 29 survived
December 25, 2024
Japan's government said on Thursday it predicts economic output will recover to full capacity in the next fiscal year for the first time in seven years on an annual basis due to a
December 26, 2024
Taiwan's defence ministry warned of "serious impact" to security after opposition parties passed laws that will require a cut in defence spending of some T$80 billion ($2.45 billion
December 26, 2024
In China's take on Squid Game, fraudsters are preying on the financially distressed in a slumping economy with promises of prize money, debt
December 25, 2024
A Taliban government official says Pakistan’s airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan killed 46 people, mostly women and children
December 25, 2024
A Japanese government panel has largely supported a draft energy policy calling for bolstering renewables up to half of Japanese electricity needs by 2040
December 25, 2024
Bombardment by Pakistani military aircraft in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province on Tuesday killed at least 46 people, most of whom were children and women
December 25, 2024China and Japan have agreed to set up talks on often contentious security issues
December 25, 2024
At least 29 people survived after a plane crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau on Wednesday. Dozens of others are feared dead. Eyewitness video shows dazed passengers emerging from the wreckage and others being pulled out.
December 25, 2024
Taiwan has blocked Uber Technologies' $950 million purchase of Delivery Hero's Foodpanda business on the island because of concerns it would be anti-competitive, the Fair Trade Commission (
December 25, 2024
Talks between China and Japan's foreign ministers in Beijing have paved way for Japan to host China's foreign affairs chief next year, and
December 25, 2024
China's commerce ministry said on Wednesday it would extend its anti-dumping investigation into brandy originating from the European Union by three months, less than the full
December 25, 2024
China's box office revenues for Christmas Eve plummeted to the lowest in at least 13 years, data from ticket booking platform Maoyan showed on Wednesday
December 25, 2024
South Korea's suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol did not respond on Wednesday to a second summons by anti-corruption authorities who,
December 25, 2024
Japan's government is set to compile a record $735 billion budget for the fiscal year from April due to larger social security and debt-servicing costs, adding to
December 25, 2024
Toyota Motor's global production decreased for a 10th straight month in November, the Japanese carmaker said on Wednesday, although its worldwide sales grew for the second
December 25, 2024
The Bank of Japan expects the economy to move closer to sustainably achieving the central bank's 2% inflation target next year, Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Wednesday,
December 25, 2024
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December 24, 2024
Private equity firms KKR and Bain Capital each offered more than $5 billion in first-round bids for the non-core assets of Japan's
December 25, 2024
Shares are lower in Tokyo and Shanghai, two of only a handful of world markets open on Christmas day
December 25, 2024
China approved a value-added tax law on Wednesday to take effect on Jan. 1, 2026, the official Xinhua said, bringing into one document previous regulations that have included
December 25, 2024
China on Wednesday condemned comments by the Philippine defence minister about China, calling them "baseless accusations" that "maliciously attacked" China's ruling Communist Party
December 25, 2024Efforts will continue in 2025 to stabilise and prevent further declines in China's real estate market, China Construction News reported, citing a work conference held by the
December 25, 2024
China's central bank conducted a medium-term loan operation on Wednesday while keeping the interest rate unchanged.
December 25, 2024
Israel's military intercepted a missile early on Wednesday that was launched from Yemen and crossed into Israeli territory, the army said.
December 25, 2024On the face of it, the duo hardly seem fit to inspire confidence as the brains behind Japan's newest stock fund: one, a former comedian and the other, every bit
December 25, 2024
Shyam Benegal, a renowned Indian filmmaker known for pioneering a cinema movement that tackled social issues in the 1970s, has died after chronic kidney disease
December 24, 2024
A leading indicator of Japan's service-sector inflation rose to 3.0% in November, accelerating for a second straight month, data showed on Wednesday, backing up the
December 25, 2024
The Canadian government condemned China on Tuesday for taking steps against two Canadian institutions and 20 people involved in human rights issues concerning the Uyghurs
December 24, 2024
Oil prices rose more than 1% on Tuesday, reversing the prior session's losses on a brightening short-term outlook tied to the prospect of
December 24, 2024
China's WuXi AppTec said on Tuesday its subsidiaries have signed a deal with U.S.-based private equity firm Altaris LLC for the sale of its cell and gene therapy manufacturing unit, WuXi
December 24, 2024Stocks closed higher on Wall Street ahead of the Christmas holiday, led by gains in Big Tech stocks
December 24, 2024
The dollar edged higher on Tuesday in thin holiday trading as the expected slower path of interest rate cuts from the U.S.
December 23, 2024
Wall Street topped off a global share rally in thin trade on Thursday as markets prepared for early Christmas Eve closes, while
December 24, 2024
Hong Kong offered bounties of HK$1 million ($128,728) on Tuesday for six more pro-democracy campaigners deemed to have violated national security laws, and
December 24, 2024
The United States and the United Kingdom have expressed deep concern over the recent handing down of convictions by Pakistani military courts to 25 civilian supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan over last year's riots
December 24, 2024
India's growth trajectory is expected to pick up in the second half of 2024-25, driven by domestic private consumption and a sustained revival of rural demand, the central bank said
December 24, 2024
Honda and Nissan expect big benefits from their potential merger to create the world's third-largest auto group but intense competition from China raises questions
December 24, 2024
The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia’s Siberia region
December 24, 2024
India's small businesses spanning the manufacturing, trade and services sectors added about 11 million jobs in the year to the end of September, with total
December 24, 2024
Why couples in Japan treat Christmas like a second Valentine’s Day
December 24, 2024
Hong Kong police have announced a fresh round of arrest warrants for six activists based overseas, with bounties set at $1 million Hong Kong dollars for information leading to their arrests
December 24, 2024South Korea becomes ‘super-aged’ society, new data shows
December 24, 2024
Thailand is planning a small rise in spending of 3.78 trillion baht ($110.7 billion) for the 2026 fiscal year and a slightly lower deficit of 860 billion that year, the government
December 24, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Tuesday he wanted to strengthen his country's alliance with the United States, as he pushed for as early as possible a meeting with U.S
December 24, 2024
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi will hold talks with his Japanese counterpart Takeshi Iwaya in Beijing on Wednesday, the Chinese foreign ministry said, when both men are expected
December 24, 2024
South Korea's main opposition party vowed on Tuesday to impeach acting president Han Duck-soo but reversed an earlier plan and decided to wait until later in the week,
December 24, 2024
Indonesia is considering parole for two former leaders of the Jemaah Islamiyah militant network and amnesty for its jailed members, senior officials said, after
December 24, 2024Thailand's cabinet on Tuesday approved new minimum wage increases from January, tax breaks to boost spending and the second phase the government's signature handout scheme, the
December 24, 2024
The Philippines' defence minister on Tuesday justified the country's deployment of a U.S. medium-range missile system and plans to acquire its own, despite opposition from China, a
December 24, 2024
Chinese authorities have agreed to issue 3 trillion yuan ($411 billion) worth of special treasury bonds next year, two sources said, which would be the highest on record, as Beijing ramps
December 24, 2024
Traumatised by the Indian Ocean tsunami that hit Indonesia 20 years ago, Teuku Hafid Hududillah has spent his adult life making sure that if
December 24, 2024
South Korea’s main opposition party said Tuesday it will seek to impeach acting leader Han Duck-soo after he missed an opposition-set deadline to approve independent investigations into impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife
December 24, 2024
China will ramp up fiscal support for consumption next year by raising pensions and medical insurance subsidies for residents as well as expanding consumer goods trade-ins, its
December 24, 2024
Driver who plowed into school crowd in southern China given suspended death sentence
December 24, 2024Nippon Steel's $15 billion bid for U.S. Steel has been referred to U.S.
December 24, 2024
Amicorp Group has said it will dispute a claim for more than $1 billion filed by scandal-hit Malaysian fund 1MDB, denying allegations it knowingly facilitated more than $7
December 24, 2024
Bank of Japan policymakers agreed in October to keep raising interest rates if the economy moves in line with their forecast, but some stressed the need for caution on
December 24, 2024
North Korean soldiers given fake Russian military IDs, Ukraine says
December 23, 2024
The Israel military said in a statement early on Tuesday that sirens sounded in several areas in central Israel following the launch of a projectile from Yemen.
December 23, 2024The U.S., UK and EU criticized Pakistan's military courts on Monday over the sentencing of 25 civilians in connection with attacks on military facilities in
December 23, 2024
South Korea's consumer sentiment dropped sharply this month to hit the weakest level in more than two years on growing worries about political uncertainty following parliament's
December 23, 2024
A global equity index rose on Monday with help from Wall Street, and U.S.
December 23, 2024
Stocks closed higher on Wall Street at the start of a holiday-shortened week
December 23, 2024
China said it was taking countermeasures against two Canadian institutions and 20 people involved in human rights issues concerning the Uyghurs and Tibet.
December 22, 2024
Bangladesh has sent a formal request to India to extradite ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
December 23, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that more than 3,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed and wounded in Russia's Kursk region and warned that Pyongyang could send
December 23, 2024
A Cambodian real estate entrepreneur, whose killing of a young couple sparked public outrage, has been sentenced to the maximum 31 years in prison
December 23, 2024Japan's Daiwa Securities is aiming to raise wages by at least 5%, its chief executive officer said, a faster rate than many Japanese firms expect as
December 23, 2024
Japanese automakers Nissan and Honda have announced plans to work toward a merger that would catapult them to a top position in an industry in the midst of tectonic shifts as it transitions away from its reliance on fossil fuels
December 23, 2024
Toyota Motor has decided to build a new factory to produce electric vehicles in China, the Nikkei business daily reported on Monday.
December 23, 2024
China said on Monday it had provided information and documents for an open investigation into the severing of two Baltic Sea undersea cables, though it and Sweden disagreed over
December 23, 2024
‘Her Story’: China’s answer to ‘Barbie’ becomes latest smash hit. But some men are not amused
December 23, 2024
Singapore Post said on Sunday it had dismissed its chief executive and two other senior managers after an internal investigation found they had
December 22, 2024
Ho Chi Minh City’s first metro line opens after more than a decade of delays
December 23, 2024
The first season of “Squid Game” was Netflix's most-watched series and went on to win a variety of accolades including the Emmy Award for lead actor in a drama series for Lee Jung-jae and a directing award for Hwang Dong-hyuk
December 23, 2024
A pair of five-year-old pandas, named An An and Ke Ke, celebrated their first Christmas early in a Hong Kong park, munching on special treats and looking cute for the cameras
December 23, 2024
Sri Lanka's consumer price inflation dropped to minus 1.7% year-on-year in November after easing to minus 0.7% in October, official data showed on Monday, as the country posted a strong
December 23, 2024
Credit ratings agency Moody's on Monday raised Sri Lanka's long-term foreign currency issuer rating to 'Caa1' from 'Ca' with a stable outlook, after the country's creditors approved a $
December 23, 2024
Scandal-hit Malaysian state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad said on Monday it has filed a legal claim of more than $1 billion against corporate services
December 23, 2024
South Korea's military said on Monday it has detected signs of North Korea preparing to send more troops and weapons, including suicide drones, to Russia to support
December 23, 2024
Honda and Nissan are in talks to merge by 2026, they said on Monday, a historic pivot for Japan's auto industry that underlines the threat Chinese EV makers now
December 22, 2024
A Chinese court issued a suspended death sentence to a man for driving his car into a crowd of elementary school students and parents in southern Hunan province last month
December 23, 2024Former Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda will become an adviser at the Japan Center for Economic Research from January, the non-profit, private think tank said on Monday.
December 23, 2024
A driver who ploughed his car into students and pedestrians in Changde, a city in southern China, has been handed the death sentence with a two-year reprieve, Chinese state
December 23, 2024Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in India’s northeast Manipur state since violence erupted last year between the majority Meitei community and minority Kuki-Zo tribes
December 23, 2024
French cosmetics giant L'Oreal said on Monday it had agreed to buy Gowoonsesang Cosmetics, which includes South Korean skincare brand Dr.G., from Swiss retailer Migros.
December 23, 2024
South Korea's main opposition party threatened on Monday to impeach acting president Han Duck-soo if he failed to approve legislation to launch a special counsel
December 23, 2024
China's domestic demand is gathering pace as cautious consumers increasingly choose to rent items from cameras to handbags rather than buying them, the official People's Daily said
December 23, 2024
Former Nissan chief executive Carlos Ghosn cast doubt on the success of a potential merger between Honda and Nissan, saying the latter's plans "do not make sense" at a press
December 23, 2024
Taiwan's cabinet warned on Monday the island's security might be at risk after opposition parties passed laws that will require cuts in government spending, including defence, at a
December 23, 2024
South Korea's finance minister said on Monday some slowdown in economic growth would be unavoidable as the government prepares to revise forecasts for this year and next year due to
December 23, 2024
Singapore's key consumer price gauge rose 1.9% in November on a yearly basis, lower than economists' forecasts and the smallest rise in nearly three years,
December 23, 2024
In front of Saudah's house on Indonesia's Sumatra island lie two damaged coast guard ships, washed ashore by a tsunami 20 years ago and a daily
December 23, 2024
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December 23, 2024
A Chinese war plane goes missing near Taiwan.
December 23, 2024
Vietnam will start building a new railway from its largest northern port to the border with China by the end of next year, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said.
December 23, 2024No sooner had the global economy started to put the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic behind it than a whole new set of challenges opened up for 2025.
December 23, 2024
Oil prices settled little changed on
December 20, 2024
The US still has not had a woman leader – here are the countries that have
December 22, 2024
The Chinese government is protesting the latest American announcements of military sales and assistance to Taiwan, warning the United States that it is “playing with fire.”
December 22, 2024
All three people on board a plane that was forced to make an emergency landing in Russia's remote Kamchatka region have been found alive and well after a three-day search, officials
December 22, 2024Japan's competition watchdog is expected to find Google guilty of violating the country's antitrust law, Nikkei Asia reported on Sunday, citing sources.
December 22, 2024
China criticised new U.S. military aid to Taiwan on Sunday, saying the $571 million package seriously violates the "one China principle" and provisions of joint communiques between
December 22, 2024
The Moken, a group of indigenous people from Thailand and Myanmar, once sailed freely between the archipelago of 800 islands off the coast of the two countries
December 22, 2024
China's Nio on Sunday said it would launch its new Firefly electric vehicle brand in Europe early in the first half of 2025, betting that it would help the company overcome European
December 22, 2024
A Chinese bulk carrier that is under investigation following a breach of two fibre-optic cables in the Baltic Sea is again moving after sitting still for more than a month in a
December 21, 2024
Nio unveiled a lower-cost brand named Firefly on Saturday that it touted as a rival to Mercedes' Smart and BMW's Mini in the Chinese electric vehicle maker's latest bid to
December 21, 2024
The Pakistani Taliban says it carried out a deadly attack on a military checkpoint in the country's northwest
December 21, 2024Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she recalls how she lost her mother while trying to escape the giant waves and her father to the sea
December 21, 2024
Twenty-five civilians were sentenced by a Pakistani military court to periods of two to 10 years of "rigorous imprisonment" in connection with attacks on military
December 21, 2024
The airport in the Russian city of Kazan reopened on Saturday after temporarily closing earlier in the day following a Ukrainian drone attack, Russia's aviation watchdog said.
December 21, 2024
Cheng Chen Chin-Mei beamed broadly as she hoisted a 35-kg (77-pound) weightlifting bar to her waist, dropped it and waved confidently to the enthusiastic
December 21, 2024
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry on Saturday dismissed as unfounded and "devoid of rationality" assertions by a senior U.S. official that its missile programme could eventually pose a
December 21, 2024
Sixteen security personnel were killed in northwest Pakistan in an attack by Islamist militants early on Saturday, a senior police official in the South Waziristan region said, as
December 21, 2024Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev replaced his deputy prime minister, who also served as economy minister, by presidential decree on Saturday.
December 21, 2024
Honda and Nissan are considering producing vehicles in one another's factories as part of their plan to deepen ties and potentially merge, Japan's Kyodo news agency said on Saturday.
December 21, 2024
Demonstrators supporting and opposing South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol held rival protests several hundred metres apart in Seoul on Saturday, a week after he was impeached over
December 21, 2024
A rebel army in Myanmar said it had captured a major military headquarters in the country's west, marking the fall of the junta's second regional command as it faces mounting setbacks
December 21, 2024U.S.
December 21, 2024
Seven Chinese citizens were arrested on charges of illegally entering Guam around the time the U.S.
December 21, 2024
When two month old Bibeam died in November 2023, the temples in her district would not cremate her, considering her too young for such a ceremony.
December 20, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called to step up development of the country's industrial production in regions outside Pyongyang to strengthen rural economies, state media KCNA said
December 20, 2024
The Biden administration plans to blacklist a Chinese company whose TSMC-made chip was illegally incorporated into a Huawei artificial-intelligence
December 20, 2024
U.S. stocks rose to turn what would have been one of the market’s worst weeks of the year into just a pretty bad one
December 20, 2024
Two Chinese astronauts this week completed a world-record spacewalk of more than nine hours, according to a statement from China's Manned Space Agency, marking
December 20, 2024Wall Street surged on Friday and the dollar softened as cooler-than-expected inflation data helped investors look past the possibility of a government shutdown and
December 20, 2024
Credit ratings agency Fitch on Friday upgraded Sri Lanka's long-term foreign-currency default rating to 'CCC+' from 'restricted default' (RD) following approval by creditors of the
December 20, 2024
The U.S. dollar pulled back from a two-year high on Friday, but was heading for its third-straight week of gains, with data showing a slowdown in inflation two
December 20, 2024
Lawmakers have clashed in Taiwan’s legislature after members of a leading political party broke into the building overnight to occupy the speaker’s chair
December 20, 2024
The disappearance 10 years ago of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 with 239 people on board remains one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries.
March 08, 2024A Chinese national has been charged with acting as an illegal agent for Beijing when serving as the campaign manager for an unnamed local California politician
December 19, 2024
Cambodia's influential former Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Friday that Japan would be granted visitation rights to the country's Ream Naval Base, a facility the United States is
December 20, 2024
Provincial authorities in northwestern Pakistan said on Friday they planned to collect heavy weapons to stop sectarian clashes that have killed hundreds, but tribesmen
December 20, 2024Malaysia has agreed to resume the search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, its transport minister said on Friday, more
December 20, 2024
Pakistani authorities in the northwest want warring tribes to hand over their weapons after weeks of deadly clashes
December 20, 2024An Indian court on Friday dismissed a petition challenging the award of a contract to Adani Group to revamp one of Asia's largest slums in
December 20, 2024
China's coast guard said on Friday it warned and "drove away" a Philippine C-208 aircraft that "illegally" entered the airspace over Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.
December 20, 2024Taiwan's Foxconn is pausing its interest in Nissan Motor as the Japanese automaker explores a potential merger with Honda Motor, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar
December 20, 2024
Sri Lanka's navy says it has rescued more than 100 people believed to be Rohingya refugees who were found adrift aboard a fishing trawler off the island nation
December 20, 2024
Malaysia’s government has agreed in principle to accept a second “no find, no fee” deal from a U.S. company to renew the hunt for flight MH370, which is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean over 10 years ago
December 20, 2024
South Korean investigators are pressing ahead with their probe into impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his Dec. 3 martial law declaration
December 20, 2024
Japan's government said on Friday that the economy was recovering moderately in December but warned of risks ahead, such as higher interest rates overseas and policies in the United
December 20, 2024
Thailand has told Myanmar's junta that ASEAN members would want all stakeholders included in an election the military government plans to hold next year, even as
December 20, 2024
Indonesian authorities say an ailing French national on death row for drug offenses has made a last-ditch plea to be returned home
December 20, 2024India's Rahul Gandhi is under police investigation over a scuffle between opposition members of parliament and those from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling
December 20, 2024
Taiwan export orders grew more slowly than expected in November as weaker shipment for smartphones offset strong demand for artificial intelligence technology amid softness from
December 20, 2024
As Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly expand sales of their popular diabetes and weight-loss drugs, cheaper copies of their patented remedies are winning approval from
December 20, 2024
Slowing inflation has created room for Singapore's central bank to ease monetary policy in January but it may wait until later in 2025 so it can assess incoming
December 20, 2024
South Korean police have questioned Prime Minister and Acting President Han Duck-soo as part of an investigation into the short-lived decision this month to impose
December 20, 2024
China has allowed representatives from Germany, Sweden, Finland and Denmark to board a Chinese bulk carrier at the centre of an investigation into Baltic Sea
December 19, 2024
Top Japanese finance officials said on Friday the government is "alarmed" by recent foreign exchange moves and is ready to intervene if speculative moves were
December 20, 2024
In rare criticism of its past policies, the Bank of Japan said former governor Haruhiko Kuroda's stimulus didn't change consumer psychology as much as planned,
December 20, 2024
The broad shift towards renewable energy in the U.S. will continue even under the incoming administration of Donald Trump, said the head of the
December 20, 2024
Vietnam's government said on Friday that plans to significantly overhaul its administration will not affect project approvals amid investor concern it could lead to delays in the
December 20, 2024
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Stella Qiu 2024 is almost over.
December 20, 2024
Indian militant groups that took refuge in Myanmar and fought in its civil war have been streaming back across the border to Manipur state this year, Indian
December 20, 2024
Consumer inflation in Tokyo likely accelerated in December on higher food costs and after the government's suspension of its gas and electricity subsidies, a Reuters poll showed on
December 20, 2024
South Korea's financial authorities said on Friday they would loosen foreign exchange regulations and allow more corporate borrowings abroad, in a bid to
December 20, 2024
A senior White House official on Thursday said nuclear-armed Pakistan is developing long-range ballistic missile capabilities that eventually could allow it to
December 19, 2024
China's President Xi Jinping urged Macau's new government to have the "courage" to diversify the economy of the world's biggest gambling hub as the
December 20, 2024
Siargao, the ‘surf capital of the Philippines,’ is riding a wave of change
December 20, 2024
Pakistan has denounced U.S. sanctions on its ballistic missile program as biased and putting regional peace at risk
December 19, 2024Over the last decade, Masato Shiota brought his papermaking business back from the brink, paying down debt and buying machinery to automate some
December 20, 2024
Democratic Senator Ed Markey and Republican Senator Rand Paul on Thursday urged President Joe Biden to extend by 90 days a Jan. 19 deadline for China-based
December 19, 2024
China's Sinograin has bought nearly 500,000 metric tons of U.S. soybeans this week for shipment in March and April, paying more for U.S. supplies for state reserves
December 19, 2024Japan's core inflation accelerated in November as rising food and fuel costs hit households, data showed on Friday, keeping the central bank under pressure to raise
December 19, 2024
Dealmakers expect the momentum for new share sales in India, now the world's busiest market for initial public offerings, and Australia in 2025 will cushion the
December 19, 2024
The top business risk of the Trump presidency for heavy-duty equipment maker Komatsu is not the tariffs he has threatened, but Canada's potential
December 19, 2024
A Utah woman who police believe was shot and killed by her husband along with three of their children was a refugee who fled violence in Myanmar
December 19, 2024A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
December 19, 2024
Central banks from Brazil to Indonesia scrambled to defend their struggling currencies on Thursday, hours after the Federal Reserve jolted
December 19, 2024
Some unions are born of necessity, others from convenience.
December 19, 2024
An early rebound for U.S. stocks petered out by the end of the day, leaving indexes close to flat
December 19, 2024
A group of Republican senators is demanding that the Biden administration revoke a science and technology agreement with China
December 19, 2024Wall Street stumbled to a close Thursday, ending nearly flat after an earlier rally ran out of steam late in the session as investors continued to parse the
December 19, 2024
Oil prices fell on Thursday after central bankers in the U.S. and Europe signaled caution over further easing of monetary policy, fanning concerns that weak economic
December 19, 2024
The dollar hovered near its two-year high on Thursday after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates and signaled a
December 19, 2024
India's Tech Mahindra is stepping up focus on its banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) business in a bid to bridge the gap with larger peers which
December 19, 2024
Australia's Champion Iron said on Thursday Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel and trading house Sojitz will buy a 49% stake in the company's Kami project in Canada for C$245 million ($170.41
December 18, 2024
There are no so-called "secret police stations", China's foreign ministry said on Thursday, after a New York resident who prosecutors say operated such a station pleaded guilty to
December 19, 2024Taiwan's China Airlines will split an order for its long-haul fleet renewal between Boeing and European rival Airbus and buy freighters from the U.S. planemaker in a
December 19, 2024
Iraq sent back nearly 2,000 Syrian soldiers on Thursday to their homeland after they had sought refuge in Iraq during the advance of rebel forces that toppled President Bashar al-
December 19, 2024
Funds stolen by hacking cryptocurrency platforms surged 21% from a year ago to $2.2 billion in 2024, a report from blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis showed on Thursday.
December 19, 2024
The U.S. ambassador to Vietnam says U.S. arms manufacturers could help the southeast Asian country build up its armed forces
December 19, 2024
India is preparing to offer tariffs cuts on some farm and other goods mainly imported from the U.S., aiming to clinch a broader trade and investment deal once
December 19, 2024
U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) vowed on Thursday to fight Turkey and groups it supports in the city of Kobani in northern Syria.
December 19, 2024The tiny island that sits between Europe and Asia
December 19, 2024
The chair of the Japanese banking lobby echoed Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda's cautious view on the Japanese economy on Thursday and said the central bank needed
December 19, 2024
KKR extended on Thursday its tender offer period for Fuji Soft to Jan. 9 as it battles rival U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital for control of the Japanese software maker.
December 19, 2024
India is preparing for possible trade talks with the United States, aiming for increased investments from U.S. companies and higher exports once President-elect
December 19, 2024
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December 19, 2024
The founding family of Japanese IT company Fuji Soft on Wednesday reiterated its support for a takeover bid by private equity firm Bain Capital that is opposed by Fuji
December 19, 2024
China is building the world’s largest artificial island airport
December 19, 2024
The suspect in the killing of top Russian general Igor Kirillov has been taken to the crime scene in Moscow, state media said on Thursday.
December 19, 2024
China and India resume high-level talks to ease dispute over Himalayan border
December 19, 2024
Malaysia's High Court on Thursday acquitted Rosmah Mansor, the wife of jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak, of money laundering and tax evasion, citing
December 19, 2024
The foreign minister of Myanmar on Thursday informed a regional meeting of its neighbours of its progress towards holding elections next year in the war-torn country, Thailand's
December 19, 2024
Helicopters and divers scoured the waters off India's financial capital of Mumbai on Thursday in a search for survivors of a freak boat
December 19, 2024
Chinese banks in several cities have taken the unusual step of raising mortgage rates, Chinese media reported, underscoring concerns over their shrinking profit margins amid a
December 19, 2024
Taiwan's central bank on Thursday raised this year's growth forecast for the tech powerhouse island but flagged risks for next year centred on the trade
December 19, 2024
Apple is in talks with Tencent and TikTok owner ByteDance about integrating their artificial intelligence models into iPhones sold in China, according to
December 19, 2024
The Bank of Japan kept interest rates unchanged on Thursday and its governor offered few clues on how soon it could push up borrowing costs, sending
December 18, 2024
Vietnam wants to expand its international defence cooperation to build trust and prevent wars, its prime minister said on Thursday, and the United
December 19, 2024
The Bank of Japan said unconventional monetary easing, such as its ultra-easy policy of the past decade, carries potential uncertainties and side
December 19, 2024
The Bank of Japan kept interest rates steady on Thursday, as policymakers preferred to tread cautiously in pushing up borrowing costs amid uncertainty over U.S. president-elect Donald
December 19, 2024
Top dealmakers expect global mergers and acquisitions (M&A)volumes to surpass $4 trillion next year, the highest in
December 19, 2024
South Korea's pension fund and central bank have agreed to expand their foreign exchange swap line and extend it by one year until the end of 2025, a move that comes as the won
December 19, 2024
Two late-night traffic accidents in southeastern Afghanistan killed at least 44 people, local authorities said on Thursday.
December 19, 2024Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has said he might pardon people who engaged in graft if they return what they stole, underlining his commitment to tackle corruption.
December 19, 2024
U.S. aerospace and defence giant RTX Corp plans to hire 1,000 more people to its 7,000-strong workforce in India by 2027, its top executives told Reuters,
December 19, 2024
China is widely expected to leave its benchmark lending rates unchanged on Friday, a Reuters poll showed, as falling yields, shrinking net interest margins and a weakening yuan
December 19, 2024
Corruption in China's military may have disrupted its progress towards its 2027 military modernization goals, the Pentagon said in its annual
December 18, 2024
A New York resident who prosecutors say operated a "secret police station" in the Chinatown district of Manhattan to aid Beijing's targeting of dissidents pleaded
December 18, 2024
U.S. authorities are considering a ban on China's TP-Link Technology Co over national security concerns after its internet routers were linked to cyber attacks, the Wall Street Journal
December 18, 2024The top diplomat of Myanmar's ruling junta briefed neighbouring countries on its plans to hold an election next year amid an escalating civil war, including
December 18, 2024
At least 13 dead after navy boat and passenger ferry collide near popular Mumbai tourist destination
December 18, 2024
As South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's relations with the opposition broke down this year, Western diplomats hoped the internal tensions would not
December 19, 2024
Two Malaysians who were detained in Guantanamo Bay since 2006 have safely arrived in Malaysia and will undergo a rehabilitation process before being reintegrated into society,
December 19, 2024
The Bank of Japan kept interest rates steady on Thursday, underscoring policymakers' preference to spend more time scrutinising whether wage hikes will broaden and keep inflation
December 19, 2024
South Korea's potential economic growth rate is estimated to have fallen to around 2% and is projected to fall further below 1% by the late 2040s due to a lack of innovation and
December 19, 2024
Foreign investors divested Japanese stocks significantly in the week through Dec. 14, exercising caution ahead of policy meetings by the U.S.
December 19, 2024
Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said legal experts would consider clemency requests for Mary Jane Veloso, who had been sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug trafficking
December 19, 2024
A senior executive of Taiwan-based contract manufacturer Foxconn is in France to discuss a potential stake purchase in Nissan Motor from the Japanese automaker's biggest shareholder
December 19, 2024
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) on Thursday cut its base interest rate charged via the overnight discount window by 25 basis points to 4.75%, tracking a move by the U.S.
December 18, 2024
The South Korean won dropped to its weakest level in 15 years on Thursday, weighed down by risk-averse sentiment after the U.S.
December 19, 2024
TuSimple Holdings said on Thursday it would rebrand as CreateAI and pivot from autonomous trucking to AI gaming technology, marking an attempt by the once-prominent self-driving
December 19, 2024
The Israeli military said on Thursday that sirens sounded in numerous areas in central Israel after a missile was launched from Yemen.
December 19, 2024
Police in Vietnam have arrested a man suspected of starting a blaze that killed 11 following an argument with staff in a Hanoi cafe, authorities said on Thursday, while two of the
December 19, 2024South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol is willing to present his views himself during legal proceedings related to his short-lived declaration of
December 19, 2024
Macao has grown from a monopoly-driven gambling enclave into the world's biggest gaming hub, packed with Chinese tourists, since Beijing took control of the former Portuguese colony 25 years ago
December 19, 2024
Banlue Choosin has been monitoring the seas around Thailand's southern Phang Nga province for signs of abnormality for nearly two decades.
December 19, 2024
At least 13 people died when an Indian naval boat collided with a passenger ferry with more than 100 passengers which then capsized off the coast of financial
December 18, 2024
At least 100 North Korean troops deployed to Russia have been killed with another 1,000 injured in combat against Ukrainian forces in intense fighting in the Kursk region,
December 18, 2024
North Korea demonstrated this year that it could produce ballistic missiles and supply them to Russia for use against Ukraine in a matter of months
December 18, 2024
The United States voiced alarm at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday that Russia was close to accepting a nuclear-armed North Korea, as
December 18, 2024
U.S. stocks tumbled to one of their worst days of the year after the Federal Reserve hinted it may deliver fewer shots of adrenaline for the U.S. economy in 2025 than earlier thought
December 18, 2024
Japanese investors sold overseas stocks for a second consecutive month in November as they sought to capitalize on robust gains in global equities, particularly as U.S. stocks reached
December 09, 2024
Megacap tech shares muscled the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq to higher closes on Monday as U.S.
December 16, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets. The Federal Reserve has spoken, and as far as investors are concerned, the message was clear - clearly hawkish.
December 18, 2024
The U.S.
December 18, 2024
A Pentagon report says China is expanding its nuclear force, has increased military pressure against Taiwan and has strengthened its ties with Russia over the past year
December 18, 2024
Global battery maker CATL says it will expand its electric vehicle battery swapping in China in 2025
December 18, 2024
Oil prices settled higher on Wednesday after U.S. crude inventories fell and the U.S.
December 18, 2024
The U.S. dollar advanced against its peers on Wednesday, hitting its highest level in two years, after the Federal Reserve delivered a widely expected interest
December 18, 2024
Wall Street closed sharply lower on Wednesday, with the Dow falling over 1,100 points after the U.S.
December 18, 2024
China's medical
December 18, 2024
The United States said on Wednesday it was imposing new sanctions related to nuclear-armed Pakistan's long-range ballistic-missile program, including on the state-owned defense
December 18, 2024
While it is important to keep pressure on China to help further reduce U.S. fentanyl deaths, the incoming Trump administration must be careful to maintain the progress President
December 18, 2024
The U.S.
December 06, 2024
Some nations and investors have either scrapped deals or halted investments in the Adani Group, after the United States indicted its billionaire chairman Gautam Adani for alleged bribery
November 26, 2024
China declined on Wednesday to comment about the marriage of the son of jailed former leader Bo Xilai to an individual from Taiwan, saying only that it opposed "malicious"
November 27, 2024
Pakistani authorities arrested nearly 1,000 supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan who stormed the
November 27, 2024
New Zealand's economy widened more than initially reported in the annual year ended March 2024, according to revised government data released on Wednesday.
November 27, 2024
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland Threats of fresh tariffs under a second Trump administration continue to unnerve Asian investors, with Japan again - not
November 27, 2024
The biggest November snowstorm to hit South Korea’s capital in more than a half century has blanketed the capital, grounding hundreds of flights and disrupting traffic
November 27, 2024
India's lower house of parliament suspended proceedings for a second day on Wednesday after disruptions by lawmakers demanding a discussion of the U.S. indictment of billionaire
November 27, 2024
China's Hesai Group, the world's largest maker of lidar sensors for autonomous driving, said it plans to slash the price of its key product by half next year which should lead to
November 27, 2024
Losses for big technology stocks pulled major indexes lower on Wall Street
November 27, 2024
The Philippines' embattled vice president on Wednesday accused President Ferdinand Marcos Jr of seeking to remove her from office, after
November 27, 2024
Philippine police officials have filed criminal complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte and her security staff for allegedly assaulting authorities and disobeying orders in a recent altercation in Congress
November 27, 2024
Authorities have reopened roads linking Pakistan’s capital with the rest of the country, ending a four-day lockdown, after using tear gas and firing into the air to disperse supporters of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan who demanded his release from prison
November 27, 2024
Volkswagen will sell its operations in China's Xinjiang, it said on Wednesday, after years of mounting pressure to abandon its presence in a region where rights groups have
November 27, 2024
China's foreign ministry, responding to a question about a report saying the Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun has been placed under investigation for corruption, said on Wednesday
November 27, 2024
The Bank of Japan suffered record valuation losses on its government bond holdings in the first half of the fiscal year as its interest rate hikes
November 27, 2024
A Pakistani court approved bail for a journalist arrested this week after investigating claims of casualties in a protest march, his lawyer said on
November 30, 2024
A Chinese man was arrested on the territory of a German naval base, police said on Wednesday, and a public broadcaster said prosecutors were considering spying charges.
December 18, 2024The Pentagon this week released its annual report on China's military, which touches on wide-ranging issues related to some of the most important developments in China's
October 20, 2023
Russia said on Wednesday it had detained an Uzbek man who had confessed to planting and detonating a bomb which killed a top general, Igor
December 18, 2024
China’s anticorruption crackdown is impeding its military buildup plans, Pentagon says
December 18, 2024
Japanese automakers Nissan Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. have confirmed that they are discussing closer collaboration but denied reports they have decided on a merger
December 18, 2024
Russia’s security service says it has detained a citizen from Uzbekistan in the bombing that killed a senior general as he left his Moscow apartment — a bold assassination that was claimed by Ukraine’s security service
December 18, 2024
China and India took a further step towards easing their long-running border dispute on Wednesday, with senior officials holding formal talks for the first time in five years and
December 18, 2024
The world’s largest maker of batteries for electric vehicles says it will get into battery swapping in China in a big way starting next year
December 18, 2024
The British government says it still plans to hand over a contested Indian Ocean archipelago, which is home to a strategically important military base, to Mauritius
December 18, 2024
A merger between Honda and Nissan would not come with quick gains, as the automakers would first need to align their strategies while overlapping regional markets would limit the sales
December 18, 2024
Honda and Nissan are in talks to deepen ties, two people said on Wednesday, including a possible merger, the clearest sign yet of how Japan's
December 18, 2024
Russia now views arms control over the vast nuclear arsenals that were built up during the Cold War to be a thing of the past due to the lack of trust between Moscow and the West,
December 18, 2024
Indonesia's mining industry is rapidly expanding on demand for the minerals needed to help power the global energy transition, like nickel, cobalt and bauxite
December 17, 2024
A veterinarian with a global animal welfare organization says Pakistani veterinary surgeons found that a bacterial infection killed an elephant at a safari park in the city of Karachi earlier this month
December 18, 2024
Scientists in China have almost finished building a massive underground detector to sniff out mysterious particles called neutrinos
December 18, 2024
French automaker Renault, Nissan Motor's largest shareholder, is open in principle to the Japanese automaker pursuing merger talks with peer Honda Motor, two people familiar with the matter
December 18, 2024
Honda and Nissan are in talks to deepen ties, two people said on Wednesday, including a possible merger, the clearest sign yet of how Japan's once seemingly unbeatable auto industry is
December 18, 2024
Indonesia's central bank said it will buy 150 trillion rupiah ($9.3 billion) of state bonds in the secondary market next year, more than replacing around 100 trillion rupiah of
December 18, 2024
Denmark, which oversees security in and around Greenland, on Wednesday warned of a heightened risk of military confrontation in the Arctic, driven by aggressive threatening
December 18, 2024China's President Xi Jinping arrived in Macau on Wednesday to mark a quarter century of Beijing's rule over the former Portuguese enclave, and is likely
December 17, 2024
A U.S. envoy told Reuters that U.S.
December 18, 2024
China says astronauts completed nine-hour spacewalk, breaking US record
December 18, 2024Shares in Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMEC), one of China's leading chip equipment makers, jumped 4.35% on Wednesday after it was removed from a list of Chinese companies
December 18, 2024
The U.S Department of Defense on Wednesday announced the repatriation of two Guantanamo Bay detainees to Malaysia, where the government said it was planning a reintegration
December 18, 2024
Shares of Kioxia soared 14% in their market debut on Wednesday, valuing the Bain-backed chipmaker at more than 890 billion yen ($5.80 billion) and highlighting
December 18, 2024
Japanese carmakers Honda and Nissan are in talks to deepen ties, according to sources, including a possible merger, as challenges from Tesla and Chinese rivals urge a restructuring of
December 18, 2024
Elon Musk said Starlink satellite internet is inactive in India, his first comments since authorities seized two of the company's devices in recent weeks, one in an armed
December 18, 2024
Thailand could beat a government forecast of 2% to 3% export growth in 2025, the commerce minister said on Wednesday as he played down concerns about the potential impact of the
December 18, 2024
Thailand's central bank left its key interest rate unchanged on Wednesday, as widely expected, after delivering a surprise cut at its previous meeting in October.
December 18, 2024
Japan's Seven & i Holdings said on Wednesday it plans to open 500 new convenience stores in the United States and Canada through 2027.
December 18, 2024
Tesla's Shanghai plant manager Song Gang has left the company, according to a letter he sent to staff on Wednesday.
December 18, 2024
Joblessness among the youth in Chinese cities eased for a third straight month in November after reaching its highest this year in August, official data showed on Wednesday.
December 18, 2024
Bain Capital said on Wednesday it plans to launch a tender offer for Fuji Soft shares even without the backing of the Japanese firm's board should a second-round bid
December 18, 2024
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday proposed three bills aimed at cracking down China's role in the U.S. fentanyl crisis, with measures that would
December 17, 2024
A Japanese space startup says its second attempt to launch a rocket carrying satellites into orbit had been aborted minutes after liftoff
December 18, 2024
Some Asian hedge funds are betting on leading Chinese tech companies such as Xiaomi and Baidu, buoyed by their artificial intelligence innovations, despite the
December 18, 2024
As the guessing game over the timing of Japan's next interest rate hike heats up, another debate is brewing within the central bank over just how much higher rates
December 18, 2024
South Korea's foreign minister said on Wednesday he was devising a roadmap to prepare for U.S.
December 18, 2024
The approach from the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) on Sept. 15, 2021 came out of the blue.
December 17, 2024
A Filipino woman who spent years on death row in Indonesia for drug trafficking, and who was nearly executed by firing squad in 2015, said Wednesday she’s happy to be back in the Philippines but still counting on its president to get out of jail
December 18, 2024South Korea's central bank will maintain its inflation target of 2% until the next policy review, as the era of "low-inflation" is unlikely to come in a year or two, the bank's
December 18, 2024
Vietnam will showcase locally made weapons at an international arms fair in Hanoi on Thursday, as it seeks to boost its domestic industry and
December 18, 2024
The Thai industrial sentiment index rose for a second consecutive month in November, reaching its highest level in eight months on stronger exports and tourism, the Federation of
December 18, 2024
Honda and Nissan are in merger talks
December 18, 2024
Indonesian authorities have returned a Filipina woman to the Philippines who had been on death row and nearly executed by firing squad in Indonesia in 2015, after a longstanding request from her home country
December 17, 2024
Mary Jane Veloso, who received a last-minute reprieve from execution by firing squad for drug trafficking in Indonesia in 2015, arrived in the Philippines in the early hours of
December 18, 2024
China announced on Tuesday a relaxation of its visa-free transit policy, extending the permitted stay for eligible foreign travellers to 240 hours, or 10 days, from the original
December 17, 2024
Japan's exports rose faster than expected in November, data showed on Wednesday, helped by a weaker yen and solid global demand although businesses worry
December 18, 2024Progress by Chinese property developer Sunac towards a landmark restructuring deal for yuan bonds could open the gates to a flurry of debt agreements next year, as
December 17, 2024
Japanese auto giants Honda and Nissan are in talks to set up a holding company, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, a move that would allow them to share
December 17, 2024
The U.S. dollar gained against major currencies on Tuesday following better-than-expected retail sales data that showed underlying economic momentum while markets
December 17, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday visited a mausoleum for his late father and grandfather Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung to pay tribute to his father, state media reported on
December 17, 2024
China's top diplomat said on Tuesday he hoped the incoming Trump administration would "make the right choice" and work with Beijing, hours after Donald Trump told reporters the
December 17, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
December 17, 2024
A senior U.S. military official says a couple hundred North Korean troops fighting alongside Russian forces against Ukraine have been killed or wounded in battle in the Kursk border region
December 17, 2024
U.S. stock indexes trimmed some of their stellar gains for the year
December 17, 2024
U.S. stocks closed down on Tuesday and crude prices fell as investors parsed economic data and girded themselves for a series of central bank decisions, including
December 17, 2024
Oil prices eased about 1% to a one-week low on Tuesday on demand worries following the release of negative economic news from Germany and China, while investors
December 17, 2024
Pakistan's police say a roadside bomb has exploded near a vehicle carrying police officers assigned to protect polio workers in northwest Pakistan
December 17, 2024
The Republican chairman of the U.S.
December 17, 2024
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December 30, 2012The world’s busiest flight routes for 2024 revealed
December 17, 2024
‘White Lotus’ Season 3 reveals its reservation date
December 17, 2024
A woman from the Philippines who was sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Indonesia said on Tuesday she was ready to begin a new life as she prepared to fly home after the
December 17, 2024
Conor McGregor says he’s in negotiations to fight Logan Paul in a boxing exhibition in India
December 17, 2024
Police in Georgia have launched a criminal negligence investigation after 12 people were found dead at an Indian restaurant in the country’s ski resort of Gudauri
December 17, 2024Orioles bolster pitching with signing of Japanese MVP pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano
December 17, 2024Honda Motor aims to double its global hybrid car sales to 1.3 million vehicles annually by 2030 from 2023 levels, providing a "bridge" until fully electric vehicles become more
December 17, 2024
A woman who was branded a Chinese spy by Britain's MI5 has lost her case to sue the domestic spy agency over an alert issued to politicians which said she was an
December 17, 2024Canada plans to impose tariffs on a slew of Chinese products from as early as next year, the government's fiscal update showed, as part of its wider
December 17, 2024
Japanese IT firm Fuji Soft has reaffirmed its support for the second stage of a tender offer buyout from U.S. private equity firm KKR and came out against a higher offer from rival
December 17, 2024
Russia's parliament passed a law on Tuesday that would allow courts to suspend bans on groups designated by Moscow as terrorist organisations - paving the way for it to
December 17, 2024The Philippines said it delivered provisions earlier this month to its military personnel stationed at features in the South China Sea that Manila occupies but are claimed by
December 17, 2024Indonesia's anti-graft agency raided the headquarters of the central bank in Jakarta on Monday in relation to a probe into alleged
December 17, 2024
The retreat from the world’s largest auto market has begun
December 17, 2024
Youngest ever chess world champion Gukesh Dommaraju returns home to rock star welcome in India
December 17, 2024
China extends visa-free transit policy to 10 days as part of efforts to lure more foreign tourists
December 17, 2024
Chinese leaders agreed last week to raise the budget deficit to 4% of gross domestic product (GDP) next year, its highest on record, while maintaining an economic growth target of around 5%
December 17, 2024
Japanese tycoon Masayoshi Son has joined President-elect Donald Trump in announcing plans by technology and telecoms giant SoftBank Group to invest $100 billion in projects in the United States
December 17, 2024
Communist-run Vietnam is planning its boldest bureaucratic reform in decades, slashing ministries, agencies and broadcasters in a bid to
December 17, 2024
Hong Kong's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate held steady at 3.1% in the September-November period versus the prior three-month period, the government said on Tuesday.
December 17, 2024China is ready to work with India to enhance mutual trust through dialogue and communication, and manage differences with sincerity and integrity, the foreign ministry said on
December 17, 2024
South Korean investigators probing President Yoon Suk Yeol's short-lived martial law declaration failed to gain entry to his office to seek evidence on
December 17, 2024
South Korea’s acting leader has vowed to convey to the world that things are back to normal following parliament’s impeachment of conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol
December 17, 2024
Investors burned by Sri Lanka's $12.5 billion debt default are using the subsequent years-long restructuring to try to force the island nation's
December 17, 2024
South Korea's monetary policy board members said there was a need to respond quickly and preemptively to a slowing economy, as they decided to lower interest rates for a second
December 17, 2024
Walmart said on Tuesday it had formed a strategic partnership with Meituan under which the Chinese firm has begun providing delivery services for Walmart goods and
December 17, 2024
Alibaba Group said on Tuesday it would sell its Chinese department store unit Intime and book a $1.3 billion loss from the deal, as the
December 17, 2024
Ukraine’s military intelligence agency and the Pentagon say some North Korean troops have been killed during combat against Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk border region
December 16, 2024
Space startups in Japan and India said on Tuesday they had agreed to jointly study using laser-equipped satellites to remove debris from orbit, an experimental
December 17, 2024
When Abubakr Yusufi boarded a flight to Moscow in July, he thought he wouldn't be home for years.
December 17, 2024
India has tightened restrictions aimed at helping the public cope with pollution twice in 24 hours for New Delhi and its surrounding regions after a deterioration
December 17, 2024
Over 90% of market participants expect the Bank of Japan to keep interest rates steady at this week's policy meeting, a survey by money market brokerage Ueda Yagi Tanshi showed on
December 17, 2024
Sri Lanka's restructuring of $12.55 billion in international bond debt is set to lead to the launch of a series of new, as-yet-untested instruments linked to
December 17, 2024
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto headed to Egypt on Tuesday to attend meetings of a group of eight major Muslim developing countries, known as the D-8 Organization for Economic
December 17, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, several cabinet ministers, military commanders and police officials face criminal investigations over the president's botched
December 06, 2024
The mayor of Taiwan's capital told visiting Chinese officials on Tuesday he hoped for peace and wanted less of the "howls of ships and aircraft" around the island, saying dialogue
December 17, 2024
Pakistani officials say militants on a motorcycle opened fire at a police post in the country's restive northwest, killing at least two officers and wounding three others before fleeing the scene
December 17, 2024The United States hit North Korea and Russia on Monday with new sanctions targeting Pyongyang's financial and military support to Moscow as
December 16, 2024
China's capital markets outflow reached a record high of $45.7 billion in November, according to official data tracking cross-border payments, as Donald Trump's U.S. presidential
December 17, 2024
The Philippine central bank will cut its key policy rate by a quarter point for the third time in a row on Thursday as inflation stays under control and the
December 17, 2024
A Filipina who was on death row in Indonesia and was nearly executed by firing squad in 2015 will return home this week under an arrangement between the countries
December 16, 2024
U.S. stock indexes drifted through mixed trading ahead of a meeting by the Federal Reserve later this week that could set Wall Street’s direction into next year
December 16, 2024
Singapore's non-oil domestic exports rose 3.4% in November from the same month a year earlier, data on Tuesday showed, as shipments of electronics increased while non-electronics
December 17, 2024The U.S.
December 17, 2024
A German-Canadian resident of China was sentenced to 24 months in prison in the U.S. for stealing electric vehicle trade secrets from Tesla for his competing EV battery
December 16, 2024
A Chinese national with close links to Prince Andrew said he had done nothing wrong and was not a spy, after the businessman was named in court as being a suspected Chinese agent by
December 16, 2024
Ukraine's HUR military spy agency said on Monday that North Korean units fighting for Russia sustained losses of at least 30 soldiers killed or wounded around several villages on the front
December 16, 2024
India directed schools to move to hybrid mode for some grades, asked government offices to stagger timings for staff and imposed restrictions on vehicles in Delhi and adjoining regions as
December 16, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
December 16, 2024
Britain's Labour government has pared back an audit of relations with China, four sources with knowledge of the matter said, preparing the
December 16, 2024
Pakistan's central bank cut its key policy rate by 200 basis points to 13% on Monday, it said in a statement, its fifth straight reduction since June as the country
December 16, 2024
Eleven Indian citizens were among twelve victims of an accident at an Indian restaurant in the Georgian ski resort of Gudauri, the Indian Embassy said on Monday.
December 16, 2024North Korean troops have entered combat alongside Russian forces in Kursk for the first time and Washington has indications that North Korean troops have been killed and injured
December 16, 2024Fast fashion retailer Shein is considering asking UK regulators to waive listing rules that require at least 10% of its shares to be sold to
December 16, 2024
British court names alleged Chinese spy who forged close ties to Prince Andrew
December 16, 2024
A delegation of Chinese officials led by a deputy Shanghai mayor arrived in Taipei on Monday for an annual city-to-city forum, a rare visit happening at a time of heightened Taiwan-
December 16, 2024
(This Dec. 11 story has been corrected to fix the organization's name from U.S. National Trade and Tourism Office to U.S.
December 11, 2024
India's Tata Consumer Products will push back plans for some new Starbucks store openings until later in its existing schedule as fewer customers are walking into its
December 16, 2024
Indonesia will transfer Mary Jane Veloso, a Philippine woman sentenced to death in 2010 for drug trafficking, to her home country in the early hours of Wednesday, a senior
December 16, 2024
In an industrial park being built with Chinese state support in the middle of a sprawling farming community, factory boss Lei Congrui
December 16, 2024
India's merchandise trade deficit in November widened to a record level, led by a surge in gold imports, while exports fell due to weaker
December 16, 2024
An alleged Chinese spy who cultivated close ties with Prince Andrew said Monday he has done “nothing wrong or unlawful” as Britain’s government faces questions about what it is doing to thwart security threats from China
December 16, 2024
Oil futures slipped from the highest levels in several weeks on Monday on weakness in consumer spending in China, the world's largest oil importer, and as
December 16, 2024
Ukraine says North Koreans took heavy casualties during weekend attack in Kursk region
December 16, 2024
Zakir Hussain, one of India’s most accomplished classical musicians who defied genres and introduced tabla to a global audience, has died
December 16, 2024
Xi brought down powerful rivals in the military. Now he’s going after his own men
December 16, 2024This food looks too good to be real — and it is
December 16, 2024
Japan’s biggest bank has apologized after an employee allegedly stole more than 1 billion yen ($6.6 million) from customers' safe deposit boxes
December 16, 2024The Philippine Senate on Monday ratified a reciprocal access agreement (RAA) with Japan that would allow their militaries to deploy on each other's soil as both countries worry
December 16, 2024Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Monday appointed Thailand's billionaire political heavyweight and former premier Thaksin
December 16, 2024
China's fiscal revenue in the first 11 months of 2024 fell 0.6% from a year earlier, narrowing from a 1.3% slide in the January-October period, the finance ministry data showed on
December 16, 2024
Revenue from land sales by Chinese local governments dropped 22.4% year-on-year in the first eleven months of the year, finance ministry data showed on Monday.
December 16, 2024
Officials say Pakistan has begun its last nationwide vaccination campaign for the year to protect 45 million children from polio after a surge in new cases hampered efforts to stop the disease
December 16, 2024
Five freed members of Bali Nine drug gang ‘relieved and happy’ to be home
December 15, 2024
India's wholesale inflation slowed in November to 1.89% year-on-year, easing from the previous month, due to a smaller increase in food prices, government data showed on Monday.
December 16, 2024
Elections in Bangladesh could be held by the end of 2025, the head of the country's interim government said on Monday, provided that electoral reforms are carried out first.
December 16, 2024
China will promote stable growth in household income in 2025 by stepping up direct fiscal support to consumers and boosting social security, the state-run Xinhua news agency said on
December 16, 2024
South Korea's Constitutional Court on Monday began reviewing the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol over his Dec. 3 martial law proclamation, starting
December 16, 2024
The U.S. fraud case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani appears to be backed by documents that will help prosecutors make a strong case, legal experts said, but
December 16, 2024
North Korean state media KCNA on Monday reported on the South Korean parliament passing President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment vote on Saturday.
December 15, 2024
Australia's prime minister says five Australians who have spent almost 20 years in Indonesian prisons for heroin trafficking have returned to Australia under a deal struck between the two governments
December 15, 2024Thailand said on Monday it will host two regional meetings on Myanmar this week, with at least one to have representatives of the junta, as the Malaysian Prime Minister said
December 16, 2024
China's Communist Party must "turn the knife inward" to eliminate problems of discipline, including corruption, President Xi Jinping said, a new call to hunt down corrupt officials
December 16, 2024
Indonesia posted an unexpectedly large $4.42 billion trade surplus in November, double the figure expected by analysts as exports jumped and imports came in below market forecasts,
December 16, 2024
India's private sector output grew at the fastest pace in four months, preliminary readings from a survey showed, helping the economy end 2024 on a positive note
December 16, 2024
When South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol cited claims of election hacking and "anti-state" pro-North Korean sympathisers as justification for imposing
December 16, 2024
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole.
December 16, 2024
Moody's Ratings said it had raised China's 2025 GDP growth forecast to 4.2% from 4.0%, as it expected credit conditions to stabilise and Beijing's stimulus efforts since
December 16, 2024
India should do more to tax its super-rich given its high levels of
December 13, 2024
China's industrial output growth quickened slightly in November, while retail sales disappointed, keeping alive calls for Beijing to ramp up
December 16, 2024
South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol is dodging requests by investigative agencies to appear for questioning over his short-lived martial law decree
December 16, 2024
Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has dismissed the prime minister, Akylbek Japarov, the presidential administration said in a statement on Monday.
December 16, 2024
South Korea's ruling party leader, Han Dong-hoon, said on Monday that he was stepping down.
December 16, 2024
A U.S. Navy warship has arrived in Cambodia, the first such visit in eight years to a nation that is China’s close ally in Southeast Asia
December 16, 2024
Taiwan's central bank is expected to keep its policy interest rate unchanged this week and to stay the course throughout next year given the strong economy and as it deals with
December 16, 2024
China's home prices fell at the slowest pace in 17 months in November, with the crisis-hit property market showing signs of stabilising in
December 16, 2024
Property investment in China fell 10.4% in the first eleven months of 2024 from a year earlier, after dropping 10.3% in January-October, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data
December 16, 2024
China's industrial output rose 5.4% from a year earlier in November, quickening from October's 5.3% growth, signalling tentative stabilisation in the world's second-largest economy
December 16, 2024
The trend of China's consumption recovery has not changed despite year-on-year retail sales growth in November having slowed from October, China statistics bureau spokesperson Fu
December 16, 2024
Some Japanese aluminium buyers have agreed to pay a global producer a premium of $228 per metric ton over the benchmark price for shipments from January to March, up
December 16, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment on Saturday, suspending him from his official duties, capped 11 days of political crisis that roiled his country, sparked by his
December 15, 2024
Japan's factory activity shrank for the sixth straight month on lacklustre demand while the service sector extended gains in December, business surveys showed on Monday, highlighting
December 16, 2024The Bank of Thailand (BOT) will keep its key interest rate unchanged on Wednesday after a surprise October trim, according to a Reuters poll of
December 16, 2024
Bank Indonesia (BI) will hold its key interest rate steady on Wednesday to support the rupiah, according to a narrow majority of economists in a Reuters poll,
December 16, 2024
South Korea's finance ministry said on Monday authorities would continue monitoring financial and foreign exchange markets.
December 15, 2024
Japan's core machinery orders rose 2.1% in October from the previous month, government data showed on Monday. That compared with a 1.2% rise expected by economists in a Reuters poll.
December 16, 2024
An unprecedented collapse in conversion fees spells hard times for the global copper smelting sector.
December 13, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
December 15, 2024
South Korea’s opposition leader has offered to work with the government to ease the political tumult, a day after the opposition-controlled parliament voted to impeach conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol over a short-lived attempt to impose martial law
December 15, 2024
South Korea's acting president, Han Duck-soo, moved on Sunday to reassure the country's allies and calm financial markets a day after President Yoon
December 14, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol did not comply with a summons from prosecutors on Sunday, and they plan to issue another order as they investigate his short-lived martial law
December 15, 2024
The remaining five members of the "Bali Nine" Australian drug ring have returned from Indonesia after diplomatic efforts between the countries this month to strike a repatriation
December 15, 2024
South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party has decided not to seek the impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo over the Dec. 3 declaration of martial law, party leader Lee Jae
December 15, 2024
China's CNOOC Ltd has sold its U.S. subsidiary, together with its upstream oil and gas assets in the Gulf of Mexico, to British chemicals group INEOS, according to a CNOOC
December 14, 2024
South Korea's finance ministry vowed on Sunday to continue to swiftly deploy market stabilising measures as needed to support the economy after President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached
December 15, 2024
From defense to chips, Trump keeps Taiwan guessing
December 15, 2024South Korea’s parliament has impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his martial law decree, a move that ended days of political paralysis but set up an intense debate over Yoon’s fate
December 14, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol vowed on Saturday to fight for his political future after he was impeached in a second vote by the
December 14, 2024
Despite two weeks of U.N.-sponsored talks in Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh, the participating 197 nations failed to agree on a plan to deal with global droughts, made longer and more severe by a warming climate
December 14, 2024
Russia has begun using North Korean troops in significant numbers for the first time to conduct assaults on Ukrainian forces battling to hold an
December 14, 2024
Filipino death row inmate Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso knelt to pray when officers came to take her to an execution site in May 2015, just feet from her isolation cell on an Indonesian prison island, where a 13-member firing squad was waiting
December 14, 2024
At least one person was killed as Palestinian security forces clashed with Palestinian militants and set up checkpoints on Saturday in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin
December 14, 2024
China accused the Philippines on Friday of having "provoked trouble" in the South China Sea with U.S. backing, which Manila denied, as tensions between the two neighbours
December 13, 2024
South Korea’s parliament votes to impeach president over martial law debacle
December 14, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, impeached on Saturday over his short-lived attempt to impose martial law, has been stripped of his duties and powers as head of state but
December 14, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol faces the greatest threat to his brief but chequered political career, with his fate in the hands of judges after some of his allies
December 14, 2024
South Korea’s parliament has voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol, a stunning fall from grace for a man who rose from political obscurity to the height of political power
December 05, 2024
China has room to further cut the reserve requirement ratio, with the average RRR now at 6.6%, a central bank official said on Saturday, according to state broadcaster CCTV.
December 14, 2024
South Korea’s parliament voted to impeach embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law decree this month, a shocking stunt that paralyzed the country’s politics, halted foreign policy and spooked financial markets
December 12, 2024
The amount of loans approved for "whitelist" development projects across China has reached 3.6 trillion yuan ($494.80 billion) as of the end of November, Housing and Urban-rural
December 14, 2024
Thai police say two suspects are in custody as authorities investigate a bombing in the north that killed at least three people and injured 48 others
December 14, 2024China's economy is expected to grow by about 5% this year, the deputy director of the country's central financial and economic affairs commission said on Saturday.
December 14, 2024
China's President Xi Jinping will visit Macau from Dec. 18 to 20 to attend the inauguration ceremony of Macau's new government, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday
December 14, 2024
Meet the kids struggling to breathe in India’s choked capital
December 14, 2024
A former Chinese soccer star and coach of the country’s national men’s team has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for corruption, state media reported on Friday. CNN's Steven Jiang has more.
December 13, 2024
MSCI's global equity gauge fell on Friday while bond yields climbed as investors waited for clues about the future path for interest
December 13, 2024
Stock indexes closed mixed on Wall Street at the end of a rare bumpy week
December 13, 2024
The dollar headed for its best weekly performance in a month on Friday, as investors priced in the possibility of the Federal Reserve cutting rates more slowly next
December 13, 2024
A suspected Chinese spy with business ties to Prince Andrew has been barred from the United Kingdom because of concerns that he posed a threat to national security
December 13, 2024
Oil prices climbed about 2% on Friday to settle at a three-week high, on expectations that additional sanctions on Russia and Iran could tighten supplies and that
December 13, 2024
A senior Chinese delegation is expected to attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration after he extended an invitation to Chinese President Xi Jinping, who will not be in attendance. CNN's Kristen Holmes reports.
December 13, 2024Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju has become the youngest chess world champion after beating the defending champion Ding Liren of China
December 12, 2024
Foreign investors added a net $19.2 billion to their emerging market portfolio holdings in November, with selling of stocks more than offset by a continuing flow of cash
December 13, 2024
The former coach of the Chinese men's national soccer team Li Tie has received a 20-year prison sentence for bribery
December 13, 2024A top trade adviser to President-elect Donald Trump told Reuters on Thursday that the new administration would not look "fondly" on any attempt by China to
December 12, 2024
China and the United States have agreed to extend the U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement for five years, China's Ministry of Science and Technology said on Friday,
December 13, 2024A Chinese businessman who had forged close links with Prince Andrew and was authorised to act on his behalf to seek investors in China has been banned
December 12, 2024
Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto will pardon tens of thousands of prisoners ranging from activists convicted of defamation to those jailed in the easternmost province of
December 13, 2024
Goldman Sachs received regulatory approval to sell funds in China, the latest U.S. investment bank to get a financial licence in a sign of Beijing's commitment to
December 13, 2024
New bank lending in China rose by far less than expected in November, highlighting weak credit demand in the world's second-largest economy as policymakers
December 13, 2024
South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung said on Friday the best way to restore order was to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol, a day ahead of a planned parliamentary
December 13, 2024
The three companies building a next generation fighter jet for the U.K., Italy and Japan have revealed that they are forming a joint venture to deliver the aircraft
December 13, 2024China's Geely and Baidu said on Friday they would help the management of their troubled electric vehicle venture Ji Yue Auto to solve disputes with employees including over social
December 13, 2024
Two dozen migrant workers who allege they were subjected to forced labour at a Malaysian factory while making parts for British vacuum cleaner manufacturer Dyson can sue the company
December 13, 2024
China's defence ministry on Friday broke its silence about days of military activities around Taiwan, saying it was entitled to stage exercises
December 13, 2024
US serviceman sentenced to 5 years for kidnapping and raping Japanese schoolgirl, officials say
December 13, 2024
Sake made in space could sell for $500,000 a glass
December 13, 2024
Rasmus Hojlund scored twice after coming off the bench and Manchester United rallied to beat Viktoria Plzen 2-1 in the Europa League
December 12, 2024
Global private equity firms Blackstone and Bain Capital are among final bidders for Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma, a unit of Japan's Mitsubishi Chemical Group, in a deal
December 13, 2024
China will firmly prevent overshooting risks of the yuan exchange rate and keep the rate basically stable, its central bank said on Friday, state media reported.
December 13, 2024
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Beijing agreed with Egypt that both nations should promote peace and negotiations to achieve stability in the Middle East, amid several crises
December 13, 2024
China's foreign ministry on Friday urged U.S. politicians to exercise more "common sense" after a U.S. senator called for a probe into imports of Chinese garlic, citing concerns
December 13, 2024
Chinese leaders met this week to plot economic policy for the coming year and sketched out plans to raise government spending and relax Beijing's monetary policy
December 13, 2024
U.S. automaker Tesla on Friday launched the "Actually Smart Summon" feature in China.
December 13, 2024
China's CATL has told suppliers it is willing to provide them with financial support to speed up technology innovation in battery materials and equipment, part of efforts to
December 13, 2024
Malaysia's palm oil production is set to fall for the fourth consecutive month in December as heavy rainfall hit harvesting in the
December 13, 2024
As Donald Trump steps up his tariff threats against China, Beijing is moving to beat the next U.S. president to the punch with its own restrictions and get Washington
December 13, 2024
OnlyFans is no longer accessible in China
December 05, 2024
Indian Gukesh Dommaraju, 18, becomes the youngest ever chess world champion after Ding Liren blunder
December 12, 2024
Police in India's financial capital Mumbai said on Friday that they were investigating a bomb threat to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) after it received an email in Russian warning
December 13, 2024
Asian debt markets witnessed foreign outflows in November for the first time in seven months as expectations of changes in U.S. trade policies under the forthcoming Trump administration
December 13, 2024
Beijing has unveiled a new tactic on Taiwan, the democratic island it claims as its own, officials and experts say: large-scale drills with
December 13, 2024
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Stella Qiu The rash of rate cuts over the past few days, with outsized 50 bp moves in Switzerland and Canada and a 25 bp easing by the
December 13, 2024
Japan's core consumer price inflation probably accelerated in November, driven by persistently high rice prices and the phasing out of utility subsidies, a Reuters poll showed on
December 13, 2024
Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto has suggested scrapping one of the country's two nationwide elections to cut costs, advocating a return to a model similar to that used
December 13, 2024
Investors in Chinese bonds head for 2025 betting there will be no miraculous recovery in the economy, putting them at odds with an
December 13, 2024
Xi’s RSVP is a snub to Trump, but the inauguration invite is still a big deal
December 13, 2024Singaporean asset manager Keppel and Vietnamese conglomerate Sovico Group are discussing plans for new undersea fiber-optic cables that would
December 13, 2024
China’s military is keeping silent on its large deployment of naval and coast guard ships off Taiwan this week
December 13, 2024
The Bank of Japan will hold interest rates at 0.25% at its December policy meeting as it assesses overseas risks and next year's wage outlook, a majority of
December 13, 2024
U.S.
December 13, 2024
Japan's small firms are spending far more of their profits on wages than their bigger counterparts and could struggle to keep
December 13, 2024
The Bank of Japan holds its final policy meeting for the year next week with its decision to be announced just hours after that of the U.S.
December 11, 2024
It’s one of the world’s largest connected coral reef systems, but few people have even heard of it
December 13, 2024
China said on Friday that it would decide whether to hold military exercises in response to Taiwan President Lai Ching-te's recent U.S. visit "according to our own needs and the
December 13, 2024
Global sales of fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles rose for a seventh consecutive month in November, jumping 32% year on year for a third consecutive record
December 13, 2024
Japanese big manufacturers' sentiment improved slightly in the three months to December, a quarterly survey showed on Friday, boding well for the
December 12, 2024
Meat from fin whales caught for the first time in nearly 50 years off Japan’s northern coast has fetched up to more than $1,300 per kilogram at auction, as officials try to keep the struggling industry alive
December 12, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping and other world leaders to his inauguration next month
December 12, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
December 12, 2024
The Bank of Japan is leaning toward keeping interest rates steady next week as policymakers prefer to spend more time scrutinising overseas risks and clues on next
December 12, 2024
Global stocks were down and major Wall Street indexes fell on Thursday after the European Central Bank cut interest rates for a fourth
December 12, 2024
U.S. stock indexes fell following some potentially discouraging data on the economy
December 12, 2024
The U.S. dollar rose on Thursday after a hotter than expected inflation readout while the euro traded a touch lower following the European Central Bank's decision to
December 12, 2024
China experts say Chinese leader Xi Jinping would likely see President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to attend his inauguration as too risky to accept, and the gesture from Trump may have little bearing on the increasingly competitive ties between the two nations
December 12, 2024
Two men denied a charge of assisting Hong Kong's foreign intelligence service in Britain before a London court on Thursday.
December 12, 2024
Climate change is making the Philippines more vulnerable to tropical storms, with rising temperatures already putting the country at nearly double the risk of deadly typhoons,
December 12, 2024
Thousands of people have attended the funeral of a Taliban government minister killed in an Islamic State suicide bombing the previous day
December 12, 2024
Two men accused of helping Hong Kong authorities gather intelligence in the U.K. have pleaded not guilty to violating Britain’s National Security Act
December 12, 2024China pledged on Thursday to increase the budget deficit, issue more debt and loosen monetary policy to maintain a stable economic growth rate as it
December 12, 2024
The global diesel market will likely find price support in 2025 from the closure of about 1% of refining capacity,
December 12, 2024
Nearly 10% of the planet’s human inhabitants live within 3.1 miles of the coast − where the risk of climate disasters is often highest.
December 12, 2024
Lai Chi Wo is one of Hong Kong's oldest settlements — and its most biodiverse. A decade-long revitalization project has helped bring the village back to life, while protecting its surrounding ancient woodland, mangrove forest and marine park.
December 12, 2024
In 1972, a South Korean president instigated a self-coup and succeeded. Understanding why – and why the latest attempt failed – helps explain how far the country’s democracy has progressed and how fragile it could become.
December 12, 2024
Nvidia said recent social media posts alleging the company would cut supplies to China were false, according to a company post on Chinese social media.
December 12, 2024
The CEO of China's Ji Yue Auto was surrounded by people demanding to know how they would be paid, videos posted online on Thursday showed, a day after the EV maker said it would
December 12, 2024
India's retail inflation eased in November as soaring vegetable prices moderated, boosting expectations of an interest rate cut by the central bank at its next
December 12, 2024
A Hong Kong court convicted on Thursday prominent former pro-democracy lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting for rioting after he was attacked by a white-
December 12, 2024
Taiwan's defence ministry on Thursday closed an emergency response centre opened earlier this week in response to what it said were stepped up Chinese military activities nearby,
December 12, 2024
Russia's state oil firm Rosneft has agreed to supply nearly 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude to Indian private refiner Reliance in the biggest ever
December 12, 2024
A court in Pakistan has indicted imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife in one of several graft cases they face
December 12, 2024U.N. experts say there has been a slight drop in the production of opium in Myanmar, the world’s biggest source of the illicit drug from which heroin is derived, but warn there are still strong prospects for future expansion of the deadly trade
December 12, 2024
Chinese leaders have wrapped up a two-day planning meeting in Beijing with pledges to take a more proactive approach in pepping up the economy, but gave no details on stimulus measures
December 12, 2024
A Pakistani court indicted imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife on fresh charges of illegally selling state gifts on Thursday, local broadcaster Geo reported.
December 12, 2024
India's industrial output rose to a three-month high of 3.5% year-on-year in October, helped by a pickup in consumer durables and garment manufacturing during the festival season,
December 12, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's switch from contrition to defiance on Thursday over his martial law order rallied some supporters but other members of his party
December 12, 2024
A Hong Kong judge on Thursday convicted seven people, including a pro-democracy former lawmaker, of rioting during mob violence at a subway station at the height of the city’s anti-government protests in July 2019
December 12, 2024
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker Nio will seek to improve efficiency and cost control as it seeks to spur sales growth that is two years behind schedule, its CEO said on
December 12, 2024
Samsung has accused India's competition watchdog of unlawfully detaining its employees and seizing data in a raid carried out in connection
December 12, 2024
South Korea will support smaller airlines and monitor market competitiveness after dominant carrier Korean Air completed a $1.3 billion acquisition of Asiana
December 12, 2024
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan With interest rates tumbling across the world and set to fall stateside again next week too, Wall Street stocks are sizing up one of
December 12, 2024
North Korean media on Thursday reported that public anger in South Korea was growing against South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and the ruling party following the short-lived
December 11, 2024
New Zealand officials say they have “no doubt” that two Vietnamese officials visiting the country sexually attacked two young female servers at a restaurant, but are unable to charge the men because they have already returned to Vietnam
December 12, 2024Blackstone said on Thursday that it will acquire a high-end office building in central Tokyo for $2.6 billion, a deal it says is the biggest real estate investment by a foreign
December 12, 2024
Is South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on the verge of being forced out of office for declaring martial law nearly a week ago
December 03, 2024
Bearish bets on the South Korean won and the Indian rupee soared to a two-year high as investors clung to their short positions in other currencies on growing concerns that
December 12, 2024
China said on Thursday it would expand a private pension scheme nationwide from December 15, following a pilot effort, as it moves to plug a pension gap in plans to help a rapidly
December 12, 2024
Japan's government plans to raise the country's key taxes starting in April 2026 to fund more defence spending after a one-year delay, according to a document
December 12, 2024
The yuan came under renewed pressure against the dollar on Thursday, giving up some initial gains as markets reflected on a Reuters report that China may weaken the
December 12, 2024
Thai consumer confidence rose for a second consecutive month in November, bolstered by government economic measures and tourism, a survey showed on Thursday.
December 12, 2024
Chinese strikes on airfields will stymie U.S. military aircraft in the Indo-Pacific region if there is a conflict, a new study says, recommending that the United
December 12, 2024
South Korea's top court upheld on Thursday a two-year jail term for an opposition lawmaker on charges including bribery and academic fraud in a scandal that has
December 12, 2024
Nvidia has added about 200 people in China this year to enhance its research capabilities and focus on new autonomous driving technologies, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.
December 12, 2024
From plastic surgery clinics to tour firms and hotel chains, South Korea's hospitality sector is wary
December 12, 2024
Nearly three-quarters of Japanese companies expect Donald Trump's next term as U.S. president to have a negative impact on their business environment, citing
December 11, 2024Thousands of members of youth and student bodies belonging to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party have marched from the capital toward the country's eastern border with India to protest an attack on a diplomatic mission and alleged desecration of Bangladeshi flags in India
December 11, 2024
Reuters reported on Wednesday that China is considering allowing the yuan to weaken
December 11, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
December 11, 2024
South Korean police tried to search President Yoon Suk Yeol's office on Wednesday but have not been able to enter the main building, Yonhap news reported
December 11, 2024
High-level discussions in China about allowing its currency to weaken next year underscore the risk for investors and companies that big
December 11, 2024
Wall Street got back to climbing after the latest update on inflation appeared to clear the way for more help for the economy from the Federal Reserve
December 11, 2024
Global shares and Wall Street indexes rose on Wednesday after an in-line inflation reading kept intact bets on the Federal Reserve cutting
December 11, 2024
The dollar was higher on Wednesday after U.S. price data came in line with forecasts, reinforcing expectations the U.S.
December 11, 2024
Oil prices settled more than $1 higher on Wednesday after the European Union agreed to an additional round of sanctions threatening Russian oil flows that could
December 11, 2024
South Korea’s previous defense minister was stopped from attempting suicide while in detention over last week’s martial law declaration
December 11, 2024
Russia's Defence Ministry said that Ukraine had attacked a military airfield in the southern Russian city of Taganrog on Wednesday morning with six U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles and
December 11, 2024Huawei's new Mate 70 smartphone contains a chip whose design shows only an "incremental improvement" over its predecessor and, contrary to some expectations, was made using the 7
December 11, 2024
Takashi Murakami uses AI to help recreate ancient Japanese paintings in latest show
December 11, 2024
Suicide bombing in Kabul kills Taliban refugee minister
December 11, 2024
A suicide bombing in the Afghan capital has killed the Taliban refugee minister and two others in the most brazen attack on a member of the Taliban inner circle since they returned to power three years ago
December 11, 2024
China's top leaders and policymakers are considering allowing the yuan to weaken in 2025 as they brace for higher U.S. trade tariffs as Donald Trump returns to the White House.
December 11, 2024
The Afghan Taliban's acting minister for refugees, Khalil Rahman Haqqani, and six other people were killed in an explosion in the capital
December 11, 2024
Japanese airline announces baggage delivery service to combat overcrowding in Tokyo
December 11, 2024
The foundation for a "basically stable" yuan exchange rate remains "solid," according to an article published by Financial News, the People's Bank of China's publication, on
December 11, 2024
A powerful blast rocked a residential high-rise building in an affluent district of the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Wednesday, killing one person and sending shockwaves
December 11, 2024President Joe Biden has approved a new national security memorandum that could serve as a road map for the incoming Trump administration as it looks to counter growing cooperation among China, Iran, North Korea and Russia
December 11, 2024
Olympic sharpshooter Kim Ye-ji brings her ‘aura’ to Balenciaga campaign
December 11, 2024
Taiwan has demanded that China end its ongoing military activity in nearby waters, which it said is unilaterally undermining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and disrupting international shipping and trade
December 11, 2024
Kim Yong-hyun, a former defence minister and close confidant to South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, became the first official to be arrested late on Tuesday over
December 11, 2024
President Joe Biden is pushing U.S. national security agencies ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration to devise new strategies to tackle the risky, deepening
December 11, 2024
U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital will raise its offer price for Japan's Fuji Soft by around 1.6%, it said on Wednesday, trumping a recently increased tender offer
December 11, 2024
Thailand's cabinet on Wednesday approved debt support measures, including interest suspensions and reduced principal payments, to help
December 11, 2024
Labour unions at major Japanese auto manufacturers have set a specific target for pay hikes for wage negotiations for the first time in seven years, as they aim to
December 11, 2024
The Philippine vice president has skipped the first hearing into threats she made against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., saying she did not believe the investigation will be fair
December 11, 2024Indonesia's budget deficit for January to November was 401.8 trillion rupiah ($25.27 billion) or 1.81% of gross domestic product, its finance minister said on Wednesday.
December 11, 2024
An Gwi-ryeong, spokesperson for South Korea's Democratic Party, went viral as footage showed her tussling with an armed soldier after the country's president imposed martial law on December 3. The decree was short-lived, with lawmakers overturning it hours later. CNN's Ivan Watson speaks to An about the tense moment that has been viewed millions of times.
December 11, 2024
South Korea’s ex-defense minister attempts to take his own life as presidential office raided in martial law fallout
December 11, 2024
Singapore's economy will grow 3.6% this year, up from a previous forecast of 2.6% expansion,
December 11, 2024
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte failed to appear on Wednesday for questioning over an alleged threat to assassinate President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, and said she was expecting
December 11, 2024
Nissan Motor will reassign Chief Financial Officer Stephen Ma to head its China business in January, it said on Wednesday, a high-profile shake-up for the crisis-hit
December 10, 2024
Nippon Life Insurance plans to acquire all the shares it does not own in Resolution Life Group Holdings for about $8.2 billion - an all-cash
December 10, 2024
China said on Wednesday it takes "necessary measures" to defend the country's sovereignty and will not tolerate "separatist"
December 11, 2024
As Japan's long-term contracts to secure liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia's Sakhalin-2 project near expiration, rival producers see
December 11, 2024
U.S. automaker Tesla sold 21,900 electric vehicles in China in the first week of December, the highest weekly sales in the fourth quarter of 2024, according to Tesla China on
December 11, 2024
Myanmar's economy is expected to shrink by 1% in the current fiscal year, the World Bank said on Wednesday, sharply downgrading its economic forecast as severe floods
December 11, 2024
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December 11, 2024
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has met with officials in Japan to reaffirm the importance of their alliance and Washington's commitment to regional security as threats rise from China and North Korea
December 10, 2024
Authorities in two Indian states that are driving its economic growth are drafting tighter workplace rules and inspections to protect white collar employees
December 11, 2024
Elon Musk's Tesla has resumed its search for showroom space in New Delhi, two sources told Reuters, in the first sign it is rethinking entering the
December 10, 2024
Developing Asia is likely to grow more slowly than previously thought this year and next, and the outlook could worsen if President-elect Donald Trump makes swift changes to U.S.
December 11, 2024
China's naval deployments in the East China Sea and South China Sea are elevated but consistent with other large exercises in the past, a U.S. military official said on Tuesday,
December 11, 2024
For pub owner Jun Jung-sook, Seoul's once-vibrant Nokdu Street is not what it used to be when people queued for a table to end their day with Korean mung bean pancakes
December 11, 2024
Japan's wholesale inflation accelerated for three straight months as companies continued to pass on rising raw material and labour costs, data showed on Wednesday,
December 11, 2024
Major League Baseball investigated to ensure no team had an advance deal in place for Roki Sasaki, and the agent for the Japanese pitcher says picking a club will be “like the draft in reverse.”
December 10, 2024
Japanese manufacturers' business sentiment soured further in December amid worries over U.S. protectionist policies and the Chinese economy, with pessimists
December 10, 2024A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
December 10, 2024
North Korean state media KCNA on Wednesday reported for the first time on South Korea's ongoing political turmoil since President Yoon Suk Yeol's martial law attempt.
December 10, 2024
In one of their most dovish statements in more than a decade, Chinese leaders signalled on Monday they are ready to deploy whatever stimulus is needed
December 10, 2024
Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Beijing for two days of talks with Chinese leaders, Russian news agencies reported late on Tuesday.
December 10, 2024
U.S. stock indexes drifted lower in the runup to the highlight of the week for the market, the latest update on inflation
December 10, 2024
Oil prices rose on Tuesday as markets looked to rising demand in China, the world's largest buyer, and possible tight supply in Europe this coming winter and away from
December 10, 2024
The dollar rose on Tuesday ahead of U.S. inflation data that could offer clues about the Federal Reserve's monetary-easing path, while analysts assess the likely
December 10, 2024
Global equities retreated and the dollar rose on Tuesday as investors awaited fresh inflation data and further economic news later in the week.
December 10, 2024
Izumi Kobayashi, director at Japan's Mizuho Financial, Omron, and ANA, said on Tuesday that companies should not overreact to President-elect
December 10, 2024
India's Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd said on Tuesday it would finance its Colombo port terminal project through internal accruals and a capital management plan, withdrawing its
December 10, 2024
China’s maritime movements around Taiwan are largest in decades, Taipei says
December 10, 2024
A Japanese man who lived through the American atomic bombing of Nagasaki has accepted this year’s Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of an organization of survivors
December 10, 2024
Restoring a balance between inflation and growth in India remains an important task for the Reserve Bank of India, the outgoing central bank governor, Shaktikanta Das,
December 10, 2024
South Korea's previous defense minister has been formally arrested over his alleged collusion with President Yoon Suk Yeol and others in imposing martial law last week
December 10, 2024
Alaska Airlines says it will launch service from Seattle to Tokyo and Seoul next year as part of a plan to boost international flying in the next several years
December 10, 2024
The United States added two Chinese companies to a trade restriction list on Tuesday for allegedly enabling human rights violations as President Joe Biden kept up the pressure
December 10, 2024
A mass animal sacrifice festival is underway in Nepal. Activists say it needs to stop
December 10, 2024
Pakistan's military says a retired army general who served as the spy chief in the government of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been indicted by a military court for indulging in politics and abusing power
December 10, 2024Russia moved a step closer towards recognising the Taliban government of Afghanistan on Tuesday as parliament voted in favour of a law that would make it possible to
December 10, 2024
Pakistan's former spy chief and ex-army general Faiz Hamid has been indicted on a series of charges, the military said on Tuesday, a rare move by the powerful army
December 10, 2024Chinese electric battery company CATL and automaker Stellantis say they will build a major battery factory in northern Spain
December 10, 2024
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Helped by a backup in U.S.
December 10, 2024
In 2024, people voted in countries that were home to almost half the world's population.
December 10, 2024
Indian opposition parties moved on Tuesday to impeach Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, a spokesman said, accusing him of being partisan in his role as chairman of parliament's
December 10, 2024
Young people must take up the fight for a nuclear-free world, with such weapons many times more powerful than in the past, a representative for this year's Nobel Peace
December 10, 2024
Chinese official broadcaster CCTV says a former chairman of the state-owned bank China Everbright Group has been jailed 12 years for embezzlement and bribery
December 10, 2024
Amazon will begin trials for quick commerce operations in India that would see the U.S. e-commerce giant deliver grocery items in 15 minutes or less, it said on Tuesday.
December 10, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol gave an order to "drag out" lawmakers from parliament after he declared martial law on Dec. 3, an army commander
December 10, 2024
Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim refused to answer questions on Tuesday on the existence of a royal decree that would allegedly allow jailed former premier Najib Razak
December 10, 2024
Kipp Popert: The world’s best disabled golfer is on a mission to lift trophies in able-bodied tournaments
December 10, 2024
Shohei Ohtani will hit but not pitch in LA Dodgers season opener
December 10, 2024
Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto called on Tuesday for more efficient government spending amid expected economic challenges caused by rising geopolitical tensions.
December 10, 2024
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad denied allegations that he betrayed the country on Tuesday, after a royal inquiry called for a criminal probe against him over
December 10, 2024
China Everbright Group's former chairman Tang Shuangning was sentenced to 12 years in prison for corruption, bribery, and abusing his position for personal gains, state broadcaster
December 10, 2024
From trade and diplomacy to markets and budgets, South Korea struggled to contain the fallout from the president's brief but shocking martial law attempt last week, just as the
December 09, 2024
Veteran South Korean broadcaster Kim Ou-joon said he left home and went into hiding minutes after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law last
December 10, 2024
China’s secretive military appears to be up to something around Taiwan, but it’s unclear whether it’s a formal military drill
December 10, 2024
Starbucks China has appointed its first Chief Growth Officer (CGO), Chinese media outlet Late Post reported on Tuesday.
December 10, 2024
The Philippine economy is expected to grow more slowly than first thought this year after the country was hit by a series of typhoons but should be more robust in 2025 and 2026, the
December 10, 2024
South Korea's central bank governor said it was difficult for the dollar-won exchange rate to return to levels seen in the past, the Yonhap news agency reported on Tuesday.
December 10, 2024
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Tuesday that the country will not send its navy to support Filipino fishers in a contested shoal in the South China Sea despite a
December 10, 2024
South Korea's opposition-controlled parliament on Tuesday passed a government budget bill for 2025 that was slashed from the government's proposal and triggered
December 10, 2024
China is deploying its largest navy fleet in regional waters in nearly three decades, posing a threat to Taiwan that is more pronounced than previous
December 10, 2024
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook China's equity markets have chosen to run with the authorities' latest vague promise of support for the sputtering economy,
December 10, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China had full confidence in achieving this year's economic growth target and in continuing to play the role of the world's
December 10, 2024
A half marathon in China's northeast province of Jilin announced an unusual selection of prizes, with first over the line winning a cow and other runners getting wild fish, geese
December 10, 2024While South Korean protesters have long employed songs, dances and chants, customised light sticks popular with K-pop fans have emerged as an
December 10, 2024
Just over a year ago, China gave Bashar al-Assad and his wife a warm welcome during their six-day visit to the country,
December 10, 2024
China's exports slowed sharply and imports unexpectedly shrank in November, in a worrying sign for the world's No. 2 economy as Donald Trump's imminent return to the
December 10, 2024
About 87,000 people are being evacuated in a central Philippine region after a volcano erupted with a huge plume of ash and superhot streams of gas and debris hurtling down its slopes
December 10, 2024
Many lithium mines, led by Chinese operators, are maintaining production of the raw material needed for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, in defiance of prices weak
December 10, 2024
China's exports grew at a slower pace in November than the previous month, while imports shrank, signalling concerns for the world's No. 2 economy as U.S.
December 10, 2024
China said on Monday it has launched an investigation into Nvidia over suspected violations of the country's anti-monopoly law, a probe widely seen as a
December 09, 2024Shares of Nvidia have slipped after China said it is investigating the high-flying U.S. microchip company over suspected violations of Chinese anti-monopoly laws
December 09, 2024
India retail inflation likely fell to 5.53% in November after breaching the central bank's 6% upper tolerance band as the arrival of fresh
December 10, 2024
Shohei Ohtani is expected to be ready to hit when the reigning World Series champions open their season in Japan against the Chicago Cubs in March but is doubtful to pitch
December 10, 2024
The first agreement signed under a trade initiative between Taiwan and the United States will come into force on Tuesday, both governments announced, as Taipei hopes a raft of
December 10, 2024
In China, people are hiring ‘climbing buddies’ for big money. The more attractive they are, the higher the price
December 10, 2024
China begins military movements around Taiwan as the island braces for potential drills
December 09, 2024
Indonesian rescuers have recovered 10 bodies that were swept away in flash floods or buried under tons of mud and rocks that hit hilly villages on the country’s main island of Java
December 09, 2024
A large volcano eruption in the Philippines sent a plume of ash and gases up to 1.8 miles high following a powerful blast that sent villagers fleeing to emergency shelters
December 09, 2024
South Korea’s Justice Ministry has imposed an overseas travel ban on President Yoon Suk Yeol as authorities investigate allegations of rebellion and other charges in connection with his short-lived declaration of martial law last week
December 09, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
December 09, 2024
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December 09, 2024
Police say two suspected militants riding on a motorcycle were killed when an explosive device they were carrying exploded prematurely near a police station in restive southwestern Pakistan
December 09, 2024China's plans for a new large embassy in London were rejected by local officials on Monday on the grounds it could pose a security risk to nearby residents, putting pressure on the
December 09, 2024Global shares turned lower on Monday as traders focused on U.S. inflation data and chip stocks fell, while Beijing's promise of stimulus
December 09, 2024
A slide for market superstar Nvidia helped pull U.S. stock indexes down from their records
December 09, 2024
China-based DJI and Autel Robotics could be banned from selling new drones in the United States market under an annual military bill set to be voted on later
December 09, 2024
Locked doors and loud chants demanding impeachment, the political crisis in South Korea is far from over after President Yoon Suk Yeol briefly declared martial law days earlier. CNN's Ivan Watson reports from the halls of the national assembly where crowds are demanding the president be ousted.
December 09, 2024
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December 07, 2012Taiwan raised its alert level on Monday, saying China had reserved airspace and deployed naval and coast guard vessels in what a security source called
December 09, 2024
Oil prices climbed more than 1% on Monday on higher geopolitical risk after the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and as top importer China flagged its
December 08, 2024
India and Bangladesh said on Monday they would pursue constructive relations after months of tensions that have boiled over into protests and confrontations since the ousting of
December 09, 2024Terumi Tanaka, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan and the representative of an organization that won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop making nuclear threats
December 09, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin does not truly understand the destructive power of nuclear weapons, a 92-year-old survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki said on
December 09, 2024
Chinese electronics maker Xiaomi said on Monday that it expects to launch its first SUV, the YU7, next June or July as it ventures deeper into China's competitive auto market.
December 09, 2024
China is probing Nvidia in a major escalation of its chip war with the US
December 09, 2024
China still faces a very difficult economic situation and it is hard to be positive on the world's second-biggest economy just yet, Legal & General Investment
December 09, 2024
China will adopt an "appropriately loose" monetary policy next year, the first easing of its stance in some 14 years, alongside a more proactive fiscal
December 09, 2024
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan A seemingly robust U.S. employment report did little to dissuade markets that another Federal Reserve interest rate is coming this
December 09, 2024
Indian police have sent a legal demand to Elon Musk's Starlink seeking details of who purchased its internet device that helps in sea
December 09, 2024
Intel should have focused on artificial intelligence rather than trying to become a contract chipmaker, the founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co said on Monday, in
December 09, 2024
South Korea bans president from traveling overseas as insurrection probe widens
December 09, 2024
A short-lived martial law decree by South Korea's leader last week raised worries about budding authoritarianism around the world
December 08, 2024
China’s military appears to be preparing for widely anticipated drills in response to a recent visit by Taiwan's president to Hawaii and Guam
December 09, 2024
During a news conference at the United States Embassy in Tokyo, Chicago Cubs pitcher Shota Imanaga was asked what he'd say to countryman Roki Sasaki to convince him to join his team
December 09, 2024
China's top leaders have pledged to loosen monetary policy and provide more support for the slowing economy
December 09, 2024
Regulators in mainland China and Hong Kong have told some of the world's biggest investment banks to help speed up
December 09, 2024
Taiwan's exports rose more than expected in November benefiting from the booming artificial intelligence (AI) industry and a bounce back in demand from top trading partner China,
December 09, 2024
Stocks jumped and China's government bonds rallied after the Politburo shifted its monetary policy stance to imply more easing is coming, mirroring moves made in previous
December 09, 2024
India's antitrust body has asked the Supreme Court to hear legal challenges to an investigation of Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart e-commerce platforms, saying
December 09, 2024
China's top electric vehicle maker BYD gained market share as the world's largest auto market recorded its fastest-growing month in 2024, setting BYD up to exceed its
December 09, 2024
Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma voiced confidence in its affiliate Ant Group's future, seeing significant opportunities in artificial intelligence for the fintech giant, at a rare
December 09, 2024
China's foreign ministry on Monday called for a "political solution" to be found in Syria as soon as possible to restore stability and order, after rebels seized the Syrian capital
December 09, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been banned from leaving the country over a failed attempt at imposing martial law, a justice ministry official
December 09, 2024
Bain Capital-backed chipmaker Kioxia's initial public offering has raised 120 billion yen ($800 million) including an overallotment after shares were priced in the middle of their
December 09, 2024
China's new yuan loans are expected to have almost doubled in November from October, a Reuters poll showed on Monday, demonstrating firmer credit demand as Beijing's
December 09, 2024
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole If you are wondering how markets have reacted to the stunning fall of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the answer is calmly.
December 09, 2024
China's exports likely grew in November, slower than last month's bumper data but continuing an upbeat trend as Chinese exporters likely frontloaded
December 09, 2024
Citigroup has appointed Harish Raman as the head of its equity capital markets (ECM) execution, origination and solutions business for Asia North, Asia South and Australia,
December 09, 2024
Japan's bankruptcy filings this year are set to surpass 10,000 and hit the highest since 2013, private-sector data by Tokyo Shoko Research (TSR) showed on Monday, ahead of a closely
December 09, 2024
A seismic event sparked a fire and halted operations at the Alardinskaya mine in southwestern Siberia, Russian officials and news agencies said on Monday.
December 09, 2024Japan's economy expanded in July-September at a faster pace than initially reported thanks to upward revisions in capital investment and exports,
December 09, 2024
China's consumer inflation hit a five-month low in November as fresh food prices pulled back while factory deflation persisted, suggesting Beijing's recent efforts to shore up
December 09, 2024
Workers in some of the world's biggest garment manufacturing hubs in Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Pakistan are increasingly exposed to extreme heat as climate change
December 08, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
December 08, 2024
What is high bandwidth memory and why is the US trying to block China’s access to it?
December 08, 2024
Mystery surrounded the whereabouts of Bashar al-Assad, who was no longer in Damascus when rebels captured the Syrian capital on Sunday, ending more than five decades of his family's
December 08, 2024
The president and financial chief of China's Ant Group, Cyril Han, will take over from Eric Jing as chief executive from March 1, showed an internal memo seen by Reuters
December 08, 2024
South Korea's leadership crisis deepened on Sunday as prosecutors named President Yoon Suk Yeol as a subject of a criminal investigation over last week's
December 07, 2024
Vietnamese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer VinFast on Sunday announced a plan to build its second domestic production plant that will double its output capacity, saying it is
December 08, 2024
South Korean prosecutors detain ex-defense chief over martial law imposition
December 08, 2024South Korean prosecutors have detained a former defense minister who allegedly recommended last week’s brief but stunning martial law imposition to President Yoon Suk Yeol
December 08, 2024
Taiwan's defence ministry said on Sunday that China had nearly doubled the number of its warships operating around the island in the previous 24 hours, ahead of what security
December 08, 2024
China has sent 14 warships, seven military aircraft and four balloons near Taiwan, according to Taiwan’s Defense Ministry, as Beijing ramps up pressure on the island it claims as its own
December 08, 2024
South Korea’s embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol has avoided an opposition-led attempt to impeach him over his short-lived imposition of martial law
December 07, 2024
A Pakistani official says armed men killed six security personnel and wounded seven in a checkpoint attack in the northwest
December 07, 2024South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol survived an impeachment vote in parliament on Saturday prompted by his short-lived attempt to impose
December 07, 2024
South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, has spoken passionately about the process of writing and her evolution as a writer — all the way back to when she was 8 years old
December 07, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol faces the greatest challenge of his brief but chequered political career, despite surviving a bruising impeachment challenge, as
December 07, 2024
Six Pakistani soldiers and 22 militants were killed in armed clashes in a northwestern region near the Afghan border on Saturday, the army said, as Islamist fighters increase
December 07, 2024Truong My Lan: Vietnamese tycoon in a race to repay $9 billion to avoid execution
December 07, 2024
South Korea president survives impeachment but party will seek his resignation
December 07, 2024
The mysterious, mathematical origins of the world’s most unusually shaped national flag
December 07, 2024
South Korea's ruling party lawmakers on Saturday decided to oppose an impeachment vote of President Yoon Suk Yeol and a special counsel investigation bill on the first lady, local
December 07, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has said he will lift his martial law order following the parliamentary vote to block it. CNN’s Mike Valerio reports from the scene in Seoul.
December 07, 2024
Jet engine maker CFM International said on Friday aviation regulators in the United States and Europe have certified a "more durable" high-pressure turbine
December 07, 2024
South Korea’s governing party chief is expressing support for suspending the constitutional powers of President Yoon Suk Yeol for imposing martial law, in a bombshell reversal that makes Yoon’s impeachment more likely
December 06, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has accused the State Department and "deep state" elements in the U.S. of trying to destabilise
December 06, 2024
U.S. stocks rose to records after data suggested the job market remains solid enough to keep the economy going, but not so strong that it raises immediate worries about inflation
December 06, 2024
Global stocks advanced as investors raised their bets on the prospect of a U.S. interest rate cut this month after payrolls data showed
December 06, 2024
The leader of South Korea’s ruling party said Friday that President Yoon Suk Yeoul needs to be immediately suspended from duty to protect the country from “grave danger,” in a dramatic reversal of opinion that compounds the pressure building on Yoon ahead of an impeachment vote in parliament. Han Dong-hoon, chief of Yoon’s own People Power Party, told reporters he received “credible evidence” that Yoon had ordered the arrest of key politicians during the short-lived martial law imposed on Tuesday night. Just hours before Han gave that news conference, he sat down for an exclusive interview with CNN’s Ivan Watson.
December 06, 2024
Oil prices fell by more than 1% on Friday and cemented weekly losses as analysts projected a supply surplus next year on weak demand despite an OPEC+ decision to
December 06, 2024
Restoring democracy will be a tall order for the interim government as it grapples with security, economic and geopolitical crises.
December 06, 2024
A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday upheld a law that could force China-based ByteDance to sell its short video app TikTok in the United States.
December 06, 2024Shareholders of Ubisoft Entertainment SA are considering how to structure a possible buyout of the Assassin's Creed video game maker without
December 06, 2024
Pakistan International Airlines said on Friday it will resume flights to Europe in January, starting with Paris, after the EU aviation regulator lifted a ban on
December 06, 2024
South Korea's ruling party leader said President Yoon Suk Yeol needed to be removed from power for trying to impose martial law, increasing the pressure
December 06, 2024
South Korean author and Nobel Literature Prize winner Han Kang said on Friday she had been deeply shocked by the news of martial law being declared this week in her
December 06, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump is naming former Sen. David Perdue of Georgia to be his ambassador to China
December 06, 2024
When President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, for the first time in South Korea since 1980, 70-year-old Lee Chul-Woo was reminded of his youth
December 06, 2024
NBA to host preseason games in Macao five years after league was effectively blocked from China
December 06, 2024
Local authorities in Somalia have confirmed that a Chinese-owned fishing vessel with 18 crew members aboard was hijacked last week off the northeastern coast of Xaafuun district in Somalia’s Bari region
December 06, 2024Hong Kong-based WH Group, the world's largest pork producer, said on Friday that its shareholders had approved spinning off Smithfield Foods into a listed company in the United States.
December 06, 2024
South Korea's main opposition leader Lee Jae-myung warned that President Yoon Suk Yeol might make another attempt to declare martial law before parliament votes on
December 06, 2024
Indian police used tear gas and pepper spray against dozens of farmers who began marching from Punjab state along a key highway to
December 06, 2024
Indian police used tear gas and pepper spray on Friday to stop dozens of farmers who were trying to reach Delhi from the northern breadbasket state of Punjab to press a series of
March 14, 2024
American vlogger abducted in Philippines presumed dead, police say
December 06, 2024
Tokyo government gives workers 4-day workweek to boost fertility, family time
December 06, 2024
Chinese fishing vessel under control of suspected pirates off Somali coast, EU naval force says
December 06, 2024
A Hong Kong court on Friday dismissed an appeal by an activist jailed for secession under a China-imposed security law to gain early release from prison.
December 06, 2024
A bearish commentary by a prominent economist on China's weak consumption, unemployment and "dispirited" youth that went viral on social media has vanished from the country's
December 06, 2024
China's trade restrictions on strategic minerals are starting to hit Western companies where it hurts.
December 06, 2024
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Somewhat counter to post-election narratives and many new year outlooks, long-dated U.S.
December 06, 2024
When South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, lawmakers from the main opposition party raced special forces soldiers to the parliament building to
December 05, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol faces impeachment, a treason investigation and pressure to resign after a failed martial law attempt. CNN’s Ivan Watson reports.
December 05, 2024
The Japanese economy likely expanded in the third quarter at the same moderate pace as initially reported, a Reuters poll showed, but a bump in private consumption may be temporary
December 06, 2024
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Stella Qiu Risk sentiment took a hit in Asia on Friday from renewed political rumblings in South Korea, rattling investors' nerves as they
December 06, 2024
Minutes after South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on Tuesday night, plunging the country into its worst crisis in decades, his
December 06, 2024
Pakistan's jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan has called on his supporters to hold a rally next week and threatened to start a civil disobedience movement
December 06, 2024
Vietnam is vulnerable to becoming the new Trump administration's next target for tariffs as data shows its trade surplus with the United States ballooning,
December 06, 2024
The Reserve Bank of India on Friday raised the interest rate ceiling that banks can offer for foreign currency non-resident (FCNR-B) deposits to boost forex
December 06, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was already grappling with controversies, including calls for his impeachment, before this week's botched martial law declaration crushed his
December 06, 2024
The signs at Nippon Steel read: “The world through steel,” underlining why Japan’s top steelmaker is pursuing its $15 billion bid to acquire U.S. Steel
December 06, 2024
Indonesia and the Philippines signed a deal on Friday to repatriate a Filipino death-row drug convict, as the new administration of President Prabowo Subianto seeks to shore up diplomatic ties with neighboring countries
December 06, 2024In the groundswell of fury and defiance that erupted among South Koreans after their president declared martial law, it was perhaps the iconic moment
December 06, 2024
South Korea’s opposition leader has questioned the state of mind of President Yoon Suk Yeol and vowed to make all-out efforts to get him impeached as soon as possible
December 06, 2024
The NBA is returning to China next season
December 06, 2024
South Korea's special warfare commander said he will refuse to implement any new order for martial law, media reports quoted him as saying.
December 06, 2024
The Bank of Japan is staying guarded on the timing of the next rate hike with December hardly a done deal given soft consumption, its governor's cautious decision-
December 06, 2024
Four Thai fishermen detained by Myanmar have been released and are expected to return home soon, Thailand's foreign ministry said on Friday, following an incident last weekend when
December 06, 2024The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept its key interest rate unchanged on Friday but cut the cash reserve ratio that banks are required to hold for
December 06, 2024
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te urged China on Friday to "unclench its fists" and not take any unilateral actions, saying ahead of expected Chinese war
December 06, 2024
The Philippines held maritime drills with the United States and Japan inside its exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea, its military said on Friday, two days after a
December 06, 2024Paraguay said on Thursday it had canceled a low-level Chinese diplomat's visa and ordered him to leave, after the envoy appeared to encourage lawmakers to
December 05, 2024
Indonesia and the Philippines signed an agreement on Friday on the repatriation of a Philippine woman who was sentenced to death for drug trafficking, an
December 06, 2024
Yoon Suk Yeol: The ‘American Pie’-singing conservative who tried to suspend democracy – and failed
December 06, 2024
China has banned exports of key materials used for a wide range of products, including smartphones, electric vehicles, radar systems and CT scanners, swiping back at Washington after it expanded export controls to include dozens of Chinese companies that make equipment used to produce computer chips
December 06, 2024
South Korea’s ruling party leader calls for suspension of president’s powers in dramatic reversal
December 06, 2024
The Reserve Bank of India may ease monetary conditions on Friday by reducing banks' cash reserve ratios after economic growth slowed to a seven-quarter low, but
December 06, 2024
U.S.
December 06, 2024
Japanese companies will find it easier to gain approval for U.S. acquisitions under the incoming Trump administration, the vice chairman of Citigroup
December 05, 2024
Japan's base salary grew at a 32-year-high pace in October, government data showed on Friday, boosting real wages after two months of decreases and offering statistical support for
December 05, 2024
Japanese household spending fell at a slower pace than forecast in October, but while the broader consumption trends remain soft the Bank of Japan is still expected
December 05, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
December 05, 2024
Authorities say a fire in a nine-story apartment building in Vietnam’s capital has killed at least 56 people, including at least four children, while an additional 37 people are being treated for injuries
September 13, 2023
Asian shares are trading mostly higher, with solid gains for Chinese markets after the central bank eased the reserve requirements for banks
September 14, 2023
By meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at Russia’s Far East spaceport, President Vladimir Putin signaled his readiness to share rocket technology with Pyongyang
September 14, 2023
Police in Vietnam say that 10 children are among the 56 people killed in a blaze in a Hanoi high-rise
September 14, 2023
Cambodia's new prime minister, Hun Manet, has arrived in Beijing on his first official trip abroad since taking office last month
September 14, 2023
Bangladesh is struggling with a record outbreak of dengue fever, with experts saying a lack of a coordinated response is causing more deaths from the mosquito-transmitted disease
September 15, 2023
A human rights lawyer who was arrested in Laos has been deported back to China despite pleas from rights groups and United Nations experts for his release
September 15, 2023
U.S. stocks edged back from their records as Wall Street counted down to a big jobs report that’s coming on Friday
December 05, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected Russia’s nuclear-capable bombers, hypersonic missiles and an advanced warship on a trip to Russia’s Far East that has sparked concerns about an arms alliance that could fuel President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine
September 15, 2023
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives at city near Vladivostok where he's expected to see Russia's Pacific fleet
September 16, 2023North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits Russian airbase where he was shown nuclear-capable bombers, Russian media reports
September 16, 2023An Afghanistan-based nonprofit says it is working with the U.N. to free 18 of its staff, including a foreigner, from Taliban detention
September 16, 2023Thousands of South Korean school teachers are calling for tighter legal protections from bullying by parents, a rising problem in a country known for its brutally competitive school environments
September 16, 2023
A four-year absence of elite women’s tennis in China is set to end with the Women’s Tennis Association holding seven tournaments in the next six weeks as part of the tour’s Asian swing
September 16, 2023
Hundreds of people have rallied in the Malaysian capital accusing Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim of helping his key ally to escape prosecution in exchange for political support
September 16, 2023
South Korea’s president says the international community “will unite more tightly” to cope with deepening military cooperation between Russia and North Korea, as he plans to raise the issue with world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly this week
September 17, 2023
Russian media say North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is on his way back home after concluding a trip to Russia's Far East
September 17, 2023Police in a southern Chinese city say they have detained some staff at China Evergrande Group’s wealth management unit in the latest trouble for the heavily indebted developer
September 17, 2023
American Ashlyn Krueger capped a perfect week to win her maiden tour title by stunning top-seeded Zhu Lin of China 6-3, 7-6 (6) in the final of the Japan Open
September 17, 2023President Joe Biden’s national security adviser met with China’s foreign minister over the past two days on the Mediterranean island nation of Malta
September 17, 2023
China has flown 103 military planes toward Taiwan in a new daily high for the activity the island considers harassment
September 18, 2023
Taiwan says 103 Chinese warplanes flew toward the island in a new daily high for such flights in recent times
September 18, 2023Asian shares are mostly weaker in cautious trading ahead of the Federal Reserve’s looming decision on interest rates
September 18, 2023
China’s top diplomat is in Russia for security talks after two days of meetings with U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser over the weekend in Malta
September 18, 2023
Canada expels top Indian diplomat as it investigates whether India is linked to slaying of a Sikh activist
September 18, 2023Hong Kong’s leader says the territory will scrutinize the regulation of digital assets after police arrested eight people over allegations of fraud at an unlicensed cryptocurrency exchange that impacted more than 1,600 investors and over $150 million in assets
September 19, 2023
India expels Canadian diplomat after Indian diplomat expelled in escalating rift over Sikh's killing
September 19, 2023Vietnam has detained the director of a think tank that works on energy issues in the country
September 20, 2023The son of jailed Hong Kong media mogul and prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai says he doesn't want to see his father die in detention, as his lawyers raised the prospect that his long-delayed trial may be pushed back indefinitely
September 20, 2023
India's visa processing center in Canada says it's suspending visa services on New Delhi's order as bilateral rift grows
September 21, 2023Twelve people are reported missing including three members of the security forces after a boat capsized and sank in a river in the Sagaing region of northwestern Myanmar
September 21, 2023Bitcoin traded near $100,000 on Thursday as investors bet on a friendly U.S. regulatory shift, while world stocks pulled back slightly
December 05, 2024
The euro rallied on Thursday as French government bonds steadied a day after the collapse of France's government, even as bitcoin soared to a record
December 05, 2024
Trudeau reiterates Canada is not looking to provoke or cause problems with India in diplomatic row over Sikh's killing
September 21, 2023The remains of an 18-year-old Army corporal from Detroit who was killed in the Korean War in 1950 have been identified
September 21, 2023US Treasury and Chinese Ministry of Finance launch economic working groups in an effort to ease tensions and deepen ties
September 22, 2023A pair of European satellites has rocketed into orbit on a mission to create artificial solar eclipses
December 05, 2024
Pakistan’s health minister says an injectable medicine that was causing a severe eye infection and sight loss in diabetic patients in the province of Punjab has been recalled and an investigation ordered while police are looking for the suppliers
September 24, 2023Separatist authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh say 20 people dead, nearly 300 injured after a gas station explosion
September 26, 2023North Korea says it plans to expel US soldier who crossed into the country
September 27, 2023North Korea has expelled a U.S. soldier who crossed into the country in July
September 27, 2023China Evergrande Group share trading suspended in Hong Kong after reports of chairman under police watch
September 28, 2023A special tribunal in Bangladesh has banned the publication of any speeches by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is in exile in India after being ousted in August after mass protests
December 05, 2024
A video that has gone viral shows An Gwi-ryeong, a journalist-turned-politician scuffling with an armed solider outside South Korea's parliament building. The incident happened after South Korea's president imposed martial law which has since ended. An is the spokesperson for the main opposition Democratic Party and former anchor on broadcaster YTN. CNN has reached out to An and the Democratic Party for comment.
December 05, 2024
Officials say a Pakistani court has indicted imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and dozens of his associates on charges of inciting people to attack military and government installations last year
December 05, 2024U.S.
December 05, 2024
A U.S. national abducted in the southern Philippines in October has reportedly been killed, Philippine police said on Thursday, citing a witness and one of the suspects.
December 05, 2024CNN security analyst David Sanger breaks down the backlash to South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeo's attempt to declare martial law. The South Korean president said he would lift a martial law order, just hours after his decree plunged the country into political uncertainty and sparked fierce rebukes from lawmakers across the political spectrum.
December 04, 2024
CSIS Korea Chair Senior Adviser Sydney Seiler explains why South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's resignation after invoking martial law in the country is unlikely and what Yoon hoped to expose by declaring the order.
December 04, 2024
North Korea's nuclear programme is a self-defensive move to head off a nuclear war in the face of the U.S. pursuit of "nuclear supremacy," state media KCNA said on
October 16, 2023
China has more than 500 operational nuclear warheads in its arsenal and will probably have over 1,000 warheads by 2030, the Pentagon said in its annual report on
October 19, 2023
In the space of just a few hours, South Korea looked to be backsliding toward autocratic rule.
December 04, 2024
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan was indicted on Thursday on charges of inciting attacks against the military, a case stemming from deadly anti-
December 05, 2024
Taiwan hopes to reach a long-mooted tax agreement with the United States next year, Finance Minister Chuang Tsui-yun said on Wednesday, which both sides have said will foster more
October 25, 2023
Sake is perhaps even more Japanese than the world-famous sushi
December 04, 2024
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, was indicted on Thursday by a court on charges of inciting his supporters to attack the country's military and its installations in
December 05, 2024
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Thursday he spoke with House Speaker Mike Johnson and other U.S. congressional leaders during his visit to the
December 05, 2024
Sovereign and public funds managing $6.5 trillion are putting risk back on the menu as inflation fears fall from the list of top concerns, and are betting big on
December 05, 2024
Berkshire Hathaway, the investment company owned by Warren Buffett, has sold 820,500 Hong Kong-listed shares of electric vehicle maker BYD Co for HK$201.73 million ($25.78
October 31, 2023
There have been 46 attempted self-coups since the end of World War II – 80% have succeeded. So what went wrong for South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol?
December 05, 2024
Drugmaker AstraZeneca names new China chief to replace detained executive
December 05, 2024
The European Space Agency on Thursday launched Proba-3, a cutting-edge Sun-observing mission, aboard the Indian Space Research Organisation's flagship rocket.
December 05, 2024
Japan and the Philippines signed a 1.6 billion yen ($10.65 million) security assistance deal on Thursday to boost the Southeast Asian nation's maritime security and surveillance
December 05, 2024South Korean opposition lawmakers said on Thursday they would vote this weekend to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol for his botched attempt to impose
December 04, 2024
South Korean politician who grabbed soldier’s gun says she was the ‘last line’ in protecting parliament during martial law
December 05, 2024
Philippine police officials say they are checking reports that a kidnapped American died after being shot twice while resisting his Oct. 17 abduction by gunmen in the country’s south
December 05, 2024South Korea’s president has replaced his defense minister as opposition parties moved to impeach both men over the stunning-but-brief imposition of martial law that brought armed troops into Seoul streets
December 05, 2024
Indonesian authorities have arrested a Chinese man sought by Beijing for allegedly helping transfer and laundering almost $18 million from a criminal online gambling group in China
December 05, 2024London set to host second official pro Sumo tournament ever outside of Japan
December 05, 2024
The United States will provide $12.5 million to Vietnam to enhance its maritime law enforcement capabilities and combat illegal fishing, the U.S. embassy in Hanoi said on Thursday.
December 05, 2024China's President Xi Jinping stressed the need to enforce discipline and fight corruption in the military, as well as boost information warfare capabilities, state broadcaster CCTV
December 05, 2024
A South Korean party spokesperson seen grappling with a rifle-wielding soldier in a video that went viral as a symbol of defiance against martial law
December 05, 2024
Procter & Gamble has overhauled its supply chain for the tiny, extra-thin strips of stainless steel in its Gillette razors to source from India
December 05, 2024
South Korean opposition leader thought martial law announcement was ‘a deepfake’
December 05, 2024
A Pakistani court on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Imran Khan's wife, Bushra Bibi, in a graft case, local TV ARY News said, a move that could lead to
December 05, 2024
Jailed former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Thursday mounted a fresh legal bid to serve his remaining prison sentence under house arrest, though court
December 05, 2024
The Philippines' foreign ministry said on Thursday it has filed a diplomatic protest against China over a Dec. 4 maritime incident in the contested Scarborough Shoal in the South
December 05, 2024
Tech giant Apple
China has decided to impose sanctions on 13 U.S. military firms from Thursday, in response to the sale of U.S. arms to Taiwan, the foreign ministry said after the United States
December 05, 2024
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co is in discussions with Nvidia Corp to produce its Blackwell artificial intelligence chips at the
December 05, 2024
The wealth held by the world's billionaires jumped by about 17% over the past year, as significant gains among the super rich in the United States more than offset a decline in
December 05, 2024
Huawei's supply chain team is working overtime to meet demand for its new Mate 70 smartphones as supplies they had initially prepared were insufficient, an executive told the state
December 05, 2024
Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker and Apple's biggest iPhone assembler, reported on Thursday revenue for November rose 3.47% year-on-year to reach the
December 05, 2024
A Malaysian royal commission of inquiry (RCI) recommended a criminal investigation into former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad over a decision to drop claims
December 05, 2024
What has happened in South Korea and what does martial law have to do with it?
December 04, 2024
Chinese online retailer Temu has been told to suspend operations in Vietnam after it failed to meet an end-of-November deadline to register with the country's Ministry of Industry and Trade
December 05, 2024
Automakers in China are ramping up exports of hybrid vehicles to Europe and planning more models for the key market, exposing the limits of the European Union's electric vehicle
December 05, 2024
China is trying to set a "red line" for the incoming Trump administration and U.S. allies by stepping up military activities in the region, a senior Taiwan security
December 05, 2024
Members of the Southeast Asian regional bloc ASEAN are planning to hold a ministerial meeting in Thailand later this month to discuss the crisis in member-nation Myanmar,
December 05, 2024
Malaysia said on Thursday any attempt by the incoming Trump administration to impose tariffs on BRICS countries for trying to create a new currency or use alternatives to the
December 05, 2024
Asian stocks were under selling pressure from foreign investors for a second consecutive month in November amid worries over potential U.S. tariff hikes on regional exports
December 05, 2024
South Korean prosecutors have opened an investigation into President Yoon Suk Yeol, his interior minister, and the now-former defence minister over their roles in an attempt to
December 05, 2024
Hong Kong leader John Lee said on Thursday he had replaced two senior officials in an unexpected move that he said would maximise social and economic benefits and help the city "
December 05, 2024
Japan's government has no plans to revise a joint statement with the central bank that focused on pulling the economy out of deflation, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Thursday
December 05, 2024
At his confirmation hearing three months ago, South Korea's defence minister Kim Yong-hyun rejected accusations from the
December 04, 2024
A North Korean diplomatic delegation is visiting China for talks on strengthening cooperation, North Korean state media said on Saturday, as Pyongyang slowly opens its borders and
December 16, 2023
Australia's Woodside Energy Group said on Thursday it has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with U.S. engineering firm Bechtel to develop the
December 05, 2024
Taiwan will not bow down to totalitarianism, President Lai Ching-te said on Thursday in the U.S. territory of Guam, calling Taiwan and the United States "brothers".
December 05, 2024
It may seem that the wild scenes in Seoul, with hundreds of armed troops and frantic lawmakers storming South Korea's parliament building after the president suddenly declared martial law, came out of nowhere
December 04, 2024
South Korea martial law ‘a painful reminder of how easily democracy can be threatened,’ protesters say
December 04, 2024
North Korea, Russia and China watch on as crisis unfolds in key US ally South Korea
December 04, 2024It’s high season in Thailand. Avoid the crowds by visiting these lesser-known destinations
December 05, 2024
UNESCO recognized Japan's ancient process of sake brewing as an "intangible cultural heritage" on Wednesday, which producers hope will boost global interest in the traditional
December 05, 2024
In early October, Nissan Motor managers dialed in for a regular online meeting with boss Makoto Uchida only to hear a grim message:
December 05, 2024
Following a 30-year boy-to-girl birth rate imbalance, up to 800,000 ‘extra’ men born since the mid-1980s will be unable to find a South Korean woman to marry. That has big demographic consequences.
January 08, 2024
The United States shares the view that the weekend's elections in Bangladesh were not free and fair, the U.S.
January 08, 2024
A candidate from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party looks set to win the presidency despite Beijing’s pressure and rhetoric.
January 09, 2024
President Yoon Suk Yeol’s stunning martial law declaration lasted just hours but has cast doubt on his ability to govern for the remaining 2 1/2 years of his term and whether he will abide by democratic principles
December 04, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has accepted the resignation of Defence Minister Kim Yong-hyun and nominated the ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Choi Byung-hyuk, as new defence
December 04, 2024
Philippine officials say Chinese coast guard vessels backed by navy ships have fired powerful water cannons and blocked and sideswiped a Philippine patrol vessel at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea
December 04, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol shocked the nation in declaring martial law and calling in troops to secure the National Assembly building
December 04, 2024
South Korean president accepts defense minister’s resignation amid backlash over martial law move
December 05, 2024
Chip design software firm Synopsys on Wednesday forecast fiscal 2025 revenue below Wall Street expectations thanks in part to a slump in China sales
December 04, 2024
South Korea's economy grew 0.1% in the third quarter, revised central bank data showed on Thursday, unchanged from its advance estimates issued in October.
December 04, 2024
South Korea's Finance Ministry said on Thursday that the government will activate 40 trillion won ($28.35 billion) worth of market stabilization fund, after President Yoon Suk Yeol's
December 04, 2024
U.S.
December 04, 2024
South Korean lawmakers on Wednesday called for the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol after he declared martial law only to reverse the move hours later, triggering the biggest
December 03, 2024
Western countries have used a regular U.N.-backed review of China's human rights record to press Beijing to do more to allow freedom of expression, protect the rights of ethnic minorities, repeal a national security law in Hong Kong and to implement other changes
January 23, 2024
The euro rose marginally against the U.S. dollar on Wednesday, but came off session highs, after a widely expected collapse of the French government
December 04, 2024
U.S. stock indexes rose to more records after tech companies talked up how much artificial intelligence is boosting their results
December 04, 2024
Fonterra Co-operative reported a lower first-quarter profit after tax on Thursday, due to impacts from lower sales volume and higher milk prices, while raising its milk price outlook for
December 04, 2024
The United States was not aware that South Korea's president intended to declare martial law, U.S.
December 04, 2024
U.S. government agencies held a classified briefing for all senators on Wednesday on China's alleged efforts known as Salt Typhoon to burrow
December 04, 2024
Oil futures fell nearly 2% on Wednesday as investors awaited an imminent OPEC+ decision on production cuts, while a larger-than-expected draw in U.S. crude stockpiles
December 04, 2024
A U.S. tech stock rally and expectations of lower interest rates boosted global shares while the euro and dollar were steady on Wednesday despite political turmoil in
December 04, 2024
General Motors told shareholders on Wednesday that it would record two non-cash charges totaling more than $5 billion on its joint venture in China, one related to
December 04, 2024
Russian-Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov has dismissed criticism from Ukraine of his appointment as president of the International Fencing Federation, but
December 04, 2024
Taiwan's parliament on Thursday elected a former presidential candidate for the largest opposition party as its new speaker, who will be responsible for hosting visiting foreign
February 01, 2024
As Indonesia votes this month to replace popular President Joko Widodo, all three candidates have all been aggressively seeking to win the votes of younger people, reaching out to them on the apps they use, through the K-pop music many love, and even video gaming events
February 08, 2024
Japan's Nippon Steel is committed to its $15 billion acquisition of U.S.
December 04, 2024
The poor performance of General Motors’ Chinese joint ventures is forcing the company to write down assets and take a restructuring charge totaling more than $5 billion in the fourth quarter of this year
December 04, 2024
Apple and Baidu are working to add AI features to iPhones sold in China, but are facing hurdles that could hurt the tech giant's phone sales in the country, The Information reported on
December 04, 2024
Twelve Vietnamese soldiers were killed in an apparently accidental explosion while in training in southern Vietnam, state media reported late on Wednesday.
December 04, 2024Taiwan President Lai Ching-te was in the U.S. territory of Guam on Wednesday, his second U.S. stopover in less than a week during a tour to reinforce ties with Pacific allies in the face of
December 04, 2024
South Korea’s opposition parties moved to impeach the president over the shocking and short-lived declaration of martial law that drew heavily armed troops to encircle parliament
December 04, 2024
Three straight years of losses from Chinese markets and anti-Beijing rhetoric from Washington have not deterred some U.S. asset managers from introducing
February 20, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law in an unannounced late-night TV address, saying the move was necessary to protect the country from "communist forces."
December 03, 2024
South Korean lawmakers on Wednesday proposed impeaching President Yoon Suk Yeol for his sudden decision to declare martial law, which he rescinded after a
December 04, 2024
The European Union has condemned the Taliban for violating human rights and women’s access to education after media reports that the Taliban’s leader has ordered private and public institutions to stop providing medical courses for women and girls in Afghanistan
December 04, 2024
An internal investigation ordered by Pernod Ricard concluded that top executives at its India business violated the law by colluding with alcohol
December 04, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on Tuesday for the first time in the country since 1980.
December 03, 2024
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan A bizarre 24-hour period in which the world's 12th-biggest economy briefly introduced martial law left markets pondering geopolitical
December 04, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing the threat of impeachment, with opposition lawmakers accusing him of violating his constitutional duty and committing a crime akin to
December 04, 2024
Nepal has signed a framework agreement with China on the Belt and Road initiative, after an initial pact was signed seven years ago but no progress made since,
December 04, 2024
A group led by left-wing activists has filed a second impeachment complaint against the Philippine vice president over her alleged misuse of government funds and demanded that she be permanently barred from holding public office
December 04, 2024
Hong Kong's government on Friday unveiled its proposed national security bill, following a month-long public consultation that ended last week.
March 08, 2024
Ed Sheeran will be first-ever Western artist to perform in Bhutan
December 04, 2024
Health volunteers in Malaysia have been preparing for any surge in waterborne diseases following devastating floods that saw tens of thousands of people
December 04, 2024
China and the Philippines gave conflicting versions on Wednesday of a maritime confrontation around a contested shoal in the
December 04, 2024
A Japanese court sentenced an Australian woman who says she was tricked amphetamines into the country to six years in prison, despite accepting her testimony that she was the victim of an online romance scam
December 04, 2024
Asian stocks slumped on Friday, tracking tech-led declines on Wall Street overnight after hotter-than-forecast U.S. inflation knocked back bets for how soon and
March 15, 2024
Hyundai Motor's labour union plans to stage strikes for four hours each on Thursday and Friday, a union spokesperson said on Wednesday.
December 04, 2024
A gunman shot at a prominent Sikh politician outside the Golden Temple in northern India on Wednesday before police caught and arrested him, in a scare at the popular site that
December 04, 2024A second impeachment complaint was filed on Wednesday against Philippine vice-president Sara Duterte over her alleged misuse of public funds and refusal to defend her budget before
December 04, 2024
Russia is following events in South Korea with concern after the president briefly declared martial law, but there are no threats to Russian citizens there, Foreign Ministry
December 04, 2024
South Koreans went to offices, businesses and schools as usual on Wednesday with scarcely any visible signs in the capital Seoul that six hours of surprise martial law and high
December 04, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday declared martial law, vowing to eradicate "shameless pro-North Korean anti-state forces" and restore order.
December 03, 2024
Thailand will extend a production timeframe for battery electric vehicles (BEV) and offer incentives for hybrid EVs to support the industry in Southeast Asia's automobile hub, its
December 04, 2024
Anglo-Australian mining group Rio Tinto on Wednesday lifted its capital expenditure guidance for 2025 and forecast higher copper production, mostly on an anticipated 50% output surge
December 04, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who vowed to make his country a "global pivotal state", faced immediate international diplomatic fallout on Wednesday after his
December 04, 2024
Business sentiment among German companies in China is at an all-time low, a German business lobby group said on Wednesday, as they face rising Chinese competition and a slowing
December 04, 2024
Round-up of South Korean financial markets: ** South Korean shares declined on Wednesday after the nation's president declared martial law and then rescinded it hours later in the
December 04, 2024
Food authorities in Denmark have recalled three types of spicy instant noodle products imported from South Korea over possible risks for “acute poisoning.”
June 12, 2024
China's defence ministry warned the Philippines against "provocative" actions and said China would safeguard its territorial sovereignty on Sunday, a day after an incident in
April 26, 2024
China needs to "reinvent itself" with economic policies to speed resolution of its property market crisis and boost domestic consumption and
April 26, 2024
The bodies of three Rohingya refugees were found in the sea as the Indonesian authorities ended a search for survivors from a boat that capsized near Aceh province, the provincial search and rescue agency said Sunday
March 24, 2024
Evergrande liquidators said the company, SJ and Tianji filed documents with a U.S.
April 26, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a tank unit and called for stepping up its combat readiness including greater "ideological and mental power," state media KCNA said on
March 24, 2024A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
April 26, 2024
Asian shares inched higher on Monday as investors hoped U.S. inflation data this week would not derail the outlook for lower interest rates, while the risk of currency
April 26, 2024
The dollar was on the front foot on Monday and kept the yen pinned near a multi-decade low, though the threat of currency intervention from Japanese authorities
April 26, 2024
North Korea says Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has proposed a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
March 25, 2024
Senior doctors at dozens of hospitals in South Korea plan to submit their resignations in support of medical interns and residents who have been on a strike over the government’s push to sharply increase medical school admissions
March 25, 2024
Asian shares are trading mixed as investors await further indications of future U.S. interest rate cuts
March 25, 2024
New Zealand said on Monday it will dispatch defence personnel, helicopters and a naval ship to the Solomon Islands to assist in a national election due next month,
March 25, 2024Thailand delivered its first batch of humanitarian aid to war-torn Myanmar on Monday, sending ten trucks over the border from the northern province of Tak in what officials hope will be a continuing effort to ease the plight of millions of people displaced by fighting
March 25, 2024
Nissan Motor said on Monday it would aim to sell 1 million more vehicles globally over the next three years, launching 30 new models by the fiscal year ending in March 2027.
April 26, 2024
The Philippines has lodged its “strongest protest” against Beijing over a water cannon assault by the Chinese coast guard that injured Filipino navy crew members and heavily damaged their boat in the disputed South China Sea
March 25, 2024
Intel and Advanced Micro Devices fell more than 2% on Monday after a report that China would limit the use of their chips and servers in government computers, potentially threatening
April 26, 2024
Britain’s government is expected to blame a string of cyberattacks targeting the U.K.’s election watchdog and lawmakers on hackers linked to the Chinese government
March 25, 2024
Sanaullah Ghafari, the 29-year-old leader of the Afghan branch of Islamic State, has overseen its transformation
July 02, 2024
A star South Korean soccer player who was detained and investigated in China for nearly a year over bribery allegations has been released and returned home
March 25, 2024
The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow theater have been identified by the Russian government as citizens of Tajikistan
March 25, 2024
The troubled history of martial law, coups and toppled presidents many hoped South Korea had left behind
December 04, 2024Indonesia’s military says it has arrested 13 elite troops accused of involvement in a video showing the torture of an indigenous Papua man believed to be a member of a separatist group
March 25, 2024Officials say Pakistani security forces have killed four insurgents as they foiled an attack on a naval facility in the volatile southwestern Baluchistan province
March 25, 2024A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
April 26, 2024
Japan’s Cabinet OK’d a plan to sell future next-generation fighter jets to other countries on Tuesday, its latest step away from the pacifist principles the country adopted at the end of World War II
March 25, 2024
Sunao Takao was the loyal interpreter at Shinzo Abe's side, helping Japan's then-leader to understand Donald Trump as they navigated contentious issues
July 02, 2024
Asian equities climbed on Tuesday but could not break this month's highs as mixed messages from U.S.
July 02, 2024
Asian shares were mixed in muted trading, as buying in some markets was soon erased by profit-taking
March 26, 2024
South Korea's foreign ministry on Tuesday expressed "grave concerns" over China's recent use of water cannons against Philippine ships, saying it stokes tension in
April 26, 2024
China has responded to hacking allegations by the United Kingdom stating that evidence the country provided was insufficient, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry said
April 26, 2024
The owners of a Malaysian convenience store chain and one of its suppliers were charged Tuesday with offending the religious feelings of Muslims after socks printed with the word “Allah” were found for sale on its shelves
March 26, 2024
Indian police have detained dozens of opposition protesters to stop them from marching to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence to demand the release of their leader and top elected official of New Delhi arrested last week in a bribery case
March 26, 2024
North Korea said on Tuesday that having a summit with Japan is not in its interest and it will reject any further negotiations, state media KCNA said.
March 26, 2024Vietnamese automaker VinFast plans to sell its electric vehicles in Thailand
March 26, 2024
New Zealand says hackers linked to the Chinese government targeted its Parliament in 2021
March 25, 2024
Hong Kong is seeking to revive its arts scene to become a regional cultural hub, but some art critics have said they were concerned that a new
April 26, 2024
Singapore's Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) on Tuesday said it was in contact with the U.S coastguard and the management company of a Singapore-registered ship involved in a
March 26, 2024Chinese electric vehicle makers are showcasing their latest models, including a flying car, as they take on global rivals at the Bangkok International Motor Show
March 26, 2024
Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD reported an 18.6% rise in fourth-quarter profit on Tuesday, its slowest since the first quarter of 2022, as EV sales lost momentum in the world's
April 26, 2024
A World Trade Organization panel on Tuesday recommended that Australia bring its measures to conform with its obligations under the GATT 1996 and the Anti-Dumping Agreement in a
March 26, 2024Authorities in Pakistan say that a suicide bomber has rammed his explosive-laden car into a vehicle in the northwest of the country
March 26, 2024
Vietnam hopes the United States will soon recognize it as a market economy, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son said on Tuesday during remarks in
April 26, 2024
Shares of Australia's Lynas Rare Earths climbed to a near three-week high on Wednesday, a day after China banned exports of some critical mineral to the United States.
December 04, 2024
The Pacific island nation of Nauru is in talks with Australia on a migration and economic deal, a Nauru official said on Wednesday, as the world's third-smallest
December 04, 2024Global investors have always valued South Korea below other markets for reasons ranging from tensions with the North to the tight
December 04, 2024
Taiwan's capital will host a rare high level Chinese delegation later this month when a deputy mayor of Shanghai visits for an annual city forum, a trip that will be happening at a
December 04, 2024
Thailand's economy is expected to grow 2.8% this year, the top end of a previous forecast range of 2.6% to 2.8%, helped by stronger exports and government spending, a leading joint
December 04, 2024
China is not wedded to achieving specific GDP growth rates, and a pace of less than 5% for the economy is acceptable as there is no need for the "worship of speed", state newspaper
December 04, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
April 26, 2024
The United States and South Korea this week launched a new task force aimed at preventing North Korea from procuring illicit oil, as deadlock at the United Nations
April 26, 2024
Japanese stocks advanced amid a weakening yen on Wednesday while Chinese stocks slipped, with overall regional trading lacking strong direction in a holiday-
April 26, 2024
China has won a nearly three-year-long dispute with Australia at the World Trade Organization over tariffs on steel products that began during a low point of bilateral relations between the countries
March 27, 2024
Indonesia’s top court is hearing appeals against the presidential election results lodged by two losing candidates who are alleging widespread irregularities and fraud at the polls and demanding a revote
March 27, 2024
Lawmakers in Thailand’s lower house of Parliament have overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill hat would make the country the first in Southeast Asia to legalize equal rights for marriage partners of any gender
March 27, 2024
Asian shares are mixed after Wall Street slipped a bit further from its record highs
March 27, 2024
Taiwan has commissioned two new navy ships as a safeguard against the rising threat from China, which has been ratcheting up its naval and air force missions around the island that it claims as its own territory to be annexed by force if necessary
March 27, 2024
India has strongly objected to remarks made by the United States on the arrest of key opposition leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the foreign ministry said on
April 26, 2024
A minor South Korean opposition party launched by disgraced former justice minister Cho Kuk has emerged as potentially the strongest spoiler to the chances of either
April 26, 2024
Republican legislators in Kansas have advanced proposals to limit the state's involvement with individuals and companies from China and other U.S. adversaries
March 27, 2024
Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts joked that Shohei Ohtani may still owe him a new Porsche, which the Japanese superstar seemed to hint at early in 2024 season
December 04, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets. The yen dam has been breached, but hasn't burst. Not yet, anyway.
April 26, 2024
The yen languished near its weakest in decades on Thursday though the threat of intervention from Japanese authorities kept investors leery of pushing the currency to
March 28, 2024
Taiwan's foreign ministry said on Thursday it believes U.S. support will remain unchanged no matter who wins the presidential election, but it will stay on guard for Taiwan-China
March 28, 2024
Toyota Motor's global sales dropped 7% in February from a year earlier, hurt by a heavy decline in China due to Lunar Year holidays and a slump in Japan after a safety test scandal
April 26, 2024
Ukraine's foreign minister has arrived in New Delhi for a two-day visit to boost bilateral ties between the two countries
March 28, 2024
India's bulging pipeline of large block trades and listings such as the $3 billion IPO of Hyundai Motor's unit will draw more funds to a market whose share of
April 26, 2024
Xiaomi, a well-known maker of smart consumer electronics in China, is joining the country’s booming but crowded market for electric cars
March 28, 2024
Asian shares have opened mixed after U.S. stocks broke out of a three-day lull to close at a record
March 28, 2024
China says it will lift tariffs placed on Australian wine over three years ago, in a sign of improving ties between the two countries
March 28, 2024
Chinese companies are staring at the prospects of a drought of new equity capital as tougher domestic IPO rules and challenges in listing
July 02, 2024
The Philippine president says his government will enforce a “countermeasure package” in response to “aggressive and dangerous attacks” by the Chinese coast guard and suspected militia ships in the disputed South China Sea
March 28, 2024
China's commerce minister will travel to Europe in April for discussions about the European Commission's investigation into whether China's electric vehicle industry has
April 26, 2024
Russia vetoed on Thursday the annual renewal of a panel of experts monitoring enforcement of longstanding United Nations sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear weapons
March 28, 2024Russia has vetoed a U.N. resolution, effectively abolishing the monitoring of U.N. sanctions against North Korea by a panel of U.N. experts
March 28, 2024
China has initiated dispute consultations with the United States regarding tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act to promote the production of electric vehicles and renewable
April 26, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
March 28, 2024
A Filipino villager says he has signed up to be nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he says he will devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea
March 29, 2024
China’s first generation of migrant workers played an integral role in the country's transformation from an impoverished nation to an economic powerhouse
March 29, 2024
Japanese automaker Mazda Motor and the energy unit of Panasonic Holdings said on Friday they have signed an automotive battery supply agreement.
July 02, 2024
Asian shares are mostly higher in quiet, Good Friday holiday trading
March 29, 2024
China's government devoted the week to a red carpet welcome for foreign executives to try to halt a retreat in corporate investment from a market once seen as the
April 26, 2024
Forty-five people have been injured, five critically, when a train crashed into the side of a bus at a rail crossing in northwestern Cambodia
March 29, 2024The president of U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia says its Hong Kong bureau has been closed because of safety concerns under a new national security law, deepening concerns about the city’s media freedoms
March 29, 2024
Japan and the U.S. will announce closer cooperation in high-tech areas such as artificial intelligence (AI) in a joint statement when Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets with
April 26, 2024
In Indonesia, environmental groups continue to point to deforestation and environmental degradation worsening the effects of natural disasters such as floods, landslides, drought and forest fires
March 30, 2024
Manufacturing in China expanded in March after contracting for five consecutive months
March 31, 2024
Japan says its experts have held talks with Chinese counterparts to try to assuage Beijing's concerns over the discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea
March 31, 2024Thousands of people have attended a rally by an alliance of India’s opposition parties that criticized the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of stifling opponents and undermining democracy ahead of a national election next month
March 31, 2024
Nippon Steel intends to pursue its proposed acquisition of U.S.
April 26, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
April 26, 2024
China's SAIC Motor aims to cut thousands of jobs this year at its joint ventures with General Motors and Volkswagen and at an electric-car unit, two people with knowledge of the
April 26, 2024
Asian shares are mixed, with Shanghai gaining 1% after surveys showed improvements in manufacturing conditions in China
April 01, 2024
A group in Taiwan is focusing on seniors as it tries to combat fake news, one conversation at a time
April 01, 2024
South Korea’s president has vowed not to back down in the face of vehement protests by doctors seeking to derail his plan to drastically increase medical school admissions
April 01, 2024
Chinese shares led a rally around most of Asia on Monday amid a broadly optimistic global economic backdrop, but Japanese shares tumbled with the yen pinned near
April 26, 2024
The United States government is arranging a summit between President Joe Biden and his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in July, on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Washington
April 26, 2024
Taiwan's outgoing President Tsai Ing-wen plans to flee in a U.S. plane if war erupts with China, according to an unsubstantiated report first
April 26, 2024
With a population of over 1.4 billion people and close to 970 million voters, India’s general election pits Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an avowed Hindu nationalist, against a broad alliance of opposition parties that are struggling to play catch up
April 01, 2024
Japan’s imperial family has made an Instagram debut with a barrage of posts, hoping to shake off their reclusive image and reach out to younger people on social media
April 01, 2024
Officials say a Pakistani appeals court has suspended a 14-year prison sentence for former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife in a corruption case
April 01, 2024
The French foreign minister has pressed China on trade issues and the war in Ukraine ahead of a planned visit to France by Chinese leader Xi Jinping later this spring
April 01, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
April 26, 2024
South Korea's military says North Korea test-fired a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile toward waters off its eastern coast, as it pushes to advance its weapons aimed at U.S. targets in the Pacific
April 01, 2024
Asian stocks rose on Tuesday and the dollar firmed, keeping the yen pinned near the 152-per-dollar levels that has traders worried about possible intervention,
April 26, 2024
Oil prices gained in early Asian trading on Tuesday, underpinned by signs of improved demand and escalating Middle East tensions that had sparked a rally in U.S.
April 26, 2024
The Philippines on Tuesday said its national security adviser and his U.S. counterpart have discussed China's "coercive, aggressive, and deceptive actions" in the South China Sea.
July 02, 2024
Hong Kong stocks are leading gains in Asian markets while investors evaluate economic data from South Korea and Australia
April 02, 2024
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee Political turmoil moves to Europe as French lawmakers gear up to vote on no-confidence motions on Wednesday that could topple
December 04, 2024
Asian shares are mixed after Wall Street retreated as surprisingly strong U.S. manufacturing data cast doubts over how soon the Federal Reserve might cut interest rates
April 02, 2024
South Korean shares fell on Wednesday amid the country's biggest political crisis in decades as lawmakers called for the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol after he declared
December 04, 2024
A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.5 struck off Taiwan, and Japan issued a tsunami alert for the southern Japanese island group of Okinawa
April 02, 2024
North Korea says it tested another new hypersonic intermediate-range missile powered with solid propellants as it continues to expand its nuclear and missile program while tensions deepen with its neighbors and the United States
April 02, 2024
A crowd of people, some weeping, has gathered at an amusement park in South Korea to bid farewell to a giant panda before her departure to China
April 03, 2024
Asian shares are mostly declining after Wall Street broke its record-breaking run-up
April 03, 2024
Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto said on a visit to Japan that he wants to “further strengthen” relations between the countries
April 03, 2024
Thai wildlife officials laid out a plan on Wednesday to bring peace to a central Thai city after at least a decade of human-monkey conflict
April 03, 2024
Taiwan was struck Wednesday by its most powerful earthquake in a quarter of a century
April 03, 2024
A major South Korean computer chipmaker said Wednesday it plans to spend more than $3.87 billion in Indiana to build a semiconductor packaging plant and research and development center
April 03, 2024Rescuers are searching for dozens of people out of contact a day after Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in a quarter century damaged buildings, caused multiple rockslides and killed nine people
April 04, 2024
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is heading to a China that is determined to avoid open conflict with the United States
April 04, 2024
Senior finance and central bank officials from Southeast Asia and major economies are meeting in the scenic Laotian city of Luang Prabang to discuss ways to help the region build resilience against shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters brought on by climate change
April 04, 2024
Panicked passengers have jumped into the sea to escape a raging ferry fire in the Gulf of Thailand, and all 108 people on board are safe
April 04, 2024
Asian shares are mostly higher after a firm finish on Wall Street, as expectations remained solid for U.S. interest rate cuts this year
April 04, 2024
South Korea’s president has met the leader of thousands of striking junior doctors and promised to respect their position during future talks over the government's contentious push to sharply increase medical school admissions
April 04, 2024
Myanmar’s main pro-democracy resistance group says its armed wing launched drone attacks on the airport and a military headquarters in the capital, Naypyitaw, but the country’s ruling military said it destroyed the drones as they attacked
April 04, 2024
Saudi Arabia will host the WTA Finals as part of a three-year deal with the women’s professional tennis tour that will increase the prize money for this November’s season-ending championship to a record $15.25 million
April 03, 2024
The U.N.’s leading human rights body has agreed to measures aimed at putting pressure on Myanmar and Iran, whose governments have been accused of using violence against their own people
April 04, 2024
As South Koreans prepare to vote for a new 300-member parliament next week, many are choosing their livelihoods and other domestic topics as their most important election issues
April 05, 2024
Rescue teams are searching for a family of five feared trapped in a rockslide following Taiwan's biggest earthquake in 25 years
April 05, 2024
Crowds are gathering in Tokyo to enjoy Japan’s famed cherry blossoms, which are blooming later than expected in the capital because of cold weather
April 05, 2024
India’s main opposition party vowed to boost social spending and reverse what it views as a slide into autocracy as it laid out its campaign promises on Friday, two weeks before the start of a weeks-long, multi-phase general election
April 05, 2024
Taiwan residents endured harrowing experiences when the ground shook with the strongest earthquake to hit the island in 25 years
April 05, 2024
U.S. and Chinese defense officials are meeting for the first time in nearly two years to discuss unsafe and aggressive ship and aircraft incidents between the two militaries in the Pacific region
April 05, 2024
Two weeks after Hong Kong introduced a new national security law, life in the city appears unchanged
April 06, 2024
As U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen appeals to Chinese leaders to change their domestic manufacturing policies on the second day of an official visit, state media are receiving her message with skepticism, and anxiety about more U.S. tariffs on green energy products
April 06, 2024
Rescuers are planning to bring in heavy equipment to try to recover two bodies buried under boulders on a hiking trail, three days after Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in 25 years
April 06, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited a new semiconductor plant for which his government has pledged more than 1 trillion yen ($7 billion) of support to secure a steady supply of chips on Saturday
April 06, 2024
The United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines will hold their first joint naval exercises, including anti-submarine warfare training, in a show of force Sunday in the South China Sea where Beijing’s aggressive actions to assert its territorial claims have caused alarm
April 06, 2024
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang and sent a message of mutual cooperation despite the nations’ differences
April 07, 2024
Police say two Papuan separatist leaders were killed in a shootout between security forces and their rebel group near one of the world’s largest gold mines in Indonesia’s restive Papua region
April 07, 2024China’s military says it has conducted air and sea patrols and that all activities that “disrupt the South China Sea” are under control
April 07, 2024
South Korea has launched its second military spy satellite into space, days after North Korea reaffirmed its plan to launch multiple reconnaissance satellites this year
April 08, 2024
Asian shares are mostly higher as investors looked ahead to earnings reports from top global companies and a consumer prices report that will be a gauge for U.S. inflation
April 08, 2024
The U.S. has denounced Hong Kong’s new national security law as a tool to potentially silence dissent both at home and abroad, but so far the action from Washington has been notably muted
April 08, 2024
A Malaysian shoe company has apologized and stopped selling some of its footwear after some Muslims said the logo resembled the Arabic writing for the word God
April 08, 2024
The new president of Toyota subsidiary Daihatsu says its parent company will oversee model certification to regain trust after a safety testing scandal
April 08, 2024
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the Biden administration will push China to change an industrial policy that poses a threat to U.S. jobs
April 08, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is making an official visit to the United States this week
April 08, 2024
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is visiting Beijing to display the strength of ties with close diplomatic ally China amid Moscow's grinding war against Ukraine
April 08, 2024
As South Koreans head to the polls to elect a new 300-member parliament on this week, many are choosing their livelihoods and other domestic concerns as the most important election issues
April 08, 2024
Sweden has expelled a Chinese journalist, saying the reporter was a threat to national security
April 08, 2024Ever since she ate mushrooms that can have psychedelic effects in Beijing last July, Janet Yellen has united Americans and Chinese in wanting to know what she will eat next
April 08, 2024
Guerrilla fighters from Myanmar’s Karen ethnic minority are claiming to be close to seizing control of a major trading town bordering Thailand
April 08, 2024
Cambodian authorities are investigating the abuse of monkeys at the famous Angkor UNESCO World Heritage Site
April 09, 2024
The chairman of Japan’s Nippon Foundation says the charity will spend $2 million to help move tens of thousands more Rohingya refugees to a remote island in Bangladesh and provide them with skills training
April 09, 2024
Iran has released two conservationists who worked to save the endangered Asiatic cheetah before spending five years in prison on espionage charges
April 09, 2024
Asia stocks are mostly higher, with investors mainly focusing on a U.S. inflation report and what it means for interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve
April 09, 2024
A top Chinese leader will lead a delegation to North Korea this week
April 09, 2024
Myanmar’s military has begun basic training at military bases and schools across the country for draftees called up under the country’s recently activated conscription law
April 09, 2024
The head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command says he is “very, very concerned” about China’s aggression toward Philippine forces near disputed islands in the South China Sea
April 09, 2024
South Koreans vote Wednesday for a new parliament in a hotly contested election that's seen as a referendum on conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol
April 09, 2024
At least four people were killed and another 12 injured in a fire in a building in Hong Kong
April 10, 2024
Shares are mixed in Asia after U.S. stock indexes held at a near standstill ahead of some potentially market-moving reports
April 10, 2024
President Joe Biden is set to host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for talks on the delicate security situation in the Pacific and a glitzy state dinner
April 10, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping has met with former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou in Beijing in a bid to promote unification between the sides that separated amid civil war in 1949
April 10, 2024
Russians in the city of Orsk gathered in a rare protest Monday calling for compensation following the collapse of a dam and subsequent flooding in the Orenburg region near the border with Kazakhstan
April 08, 2024
Officials have confirmed the identities of an Australian bomber and the remains of two air crew members more than 80 years after they crashed in flames off the coast of Papua New Guinea
April 11, 2024
South Korean media report that the prime minster and top presidential advisers have offered to resign in the wake of the parliamentary election defeat
April 11, 2024
Cambodia's program to relocate people living on the famous Angkor archaeological site is drawing international concern over possible human rights abuses, while authorities maintain they're doing nothing more than protecting the UNESCO World Heritage Site from illegal squatters
April 11, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is heading to Congress to address U.S. lawmakers on the importance of keeping a strong partnership between the two countries at a time of tension in the Asia-Pacific
April 11, 2024
Asian shares are mixed after U.S. stocks fell on worries that what seemed like a blip in the battle to bring down inflation is turning into a troubling trend
April 11, 2024
A Vietnam court has sentenced real estate tycoon Truong My Lan to death in the country’s largest financial fraud case ever, state media Thanh Nien said
April 11, 2024
China has sanctioned two U.S. companies over what it says is their support for arms sales to Taiwan, the self governing island democracy Beijing claims as its own territory to be recovered by force if necessary
April 11, 2024
A Vietnamese real estate tycoon was sentenced to death in the country’s biggest ever financial fraud case, underlining an intensifying anti-corruption drive in the southeast Asian nation
April 11, 2024
Thailand's headline consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.95% in November from a year earlier, driven by higher food and energy prices, after the previous month's annual increase of
December 04, 2024
Growth in India's dominant services sector remained strong in November despite the steepest rise in prices for over a decade, while consistent demand led to
December 04, 2024
South Korea's finance ministry said on Wednesday it was ready to deploy "unlimited" liquidity into financial markets after President Yoon Suk Yeol lifted a martial law
December 03, 2024
Experts say messages by two influential Taliban leaders in Afghanistan this week showed tensions between hardliners and more moderate elements who want to scrap harsher policies and attract more outside support
April 11, 2024
A subsidiary of Japanese-based Fujifilm Corp. plans to expand further a massive biopharmaceutical manufacturing plant in the state, even as the initial phase is yet complete
April 11, 2024The New York Philharmonic will give five concerts in China this summer in what it says will be first visit to the mainland by a U.S. orchestra since 2019
April 11, 2024A U.S. carrier strike group led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt held a three-day joint exercise with its allies Japan and South Korea, as U.S. President Joe Biden pledged an ironclad defense commitment to leaders from Japan and the Philippines at the White House
April 12, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is scheduled to tour different parts of North Carolina to spotlight his nation's title as the state's biggest foreign investor
April 12, 2024
South Korean voters have handed liberals extended opposition control of parliament in what looks like a massive political setback to conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol
April 11, 2024
Asia stocks are mostly lower after gains for Big Tech shares helped U.S. stock indexes claw back much of their slide from the day before
April 12, 2024
Thailand’s foreign minister says he has urged Myanmar’s military authorities not to violently respond to its army’s loss of an important border trading town to its opponents
April 12, 2024
The Biden administration is again reassuring the Philippines the U.S. commitment to the islands’ defense is steadfast amid increasing concerns about provocative Chinese actions in disputed areas of the South China Sea
April 12, 2024
Naomi Osaka put Japan a step away from reaching the Billie Jean King Cup Finals with a 6-2, 7-6 (5) victory over Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva
April 12, 2024
China has surged sales to Russia of machine tools, microelectronics and other technology that Moscow in turn is using to produce missiles, tanks, aircraft and other weaponry
April 12, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida drew cheers and applause from U.S. lawmakers on Thursday when he announced a plan to donate 250 cherry trees to the U.S. capital to
April 26, 2024
The governments of the United States and Japan signalled support for a plan to build the first high-speed rail in the U.S. using Japanese bullet trains after their leaders
April 26, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
April 26, 2024
China summoned Japanese and Philippine diplomats on Friday to express dissatisfaction over negative comments about it aired during a summit of the leaders of the United States,
April 26, 2024
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko warned the Japanese ambassador on Friday that "dangerous trends" in Tokyo's military cooperation with the United States were posing a
April 26, 2024
The White House said on Friday there is no reason for China to see a U.S. summit this week with Japan and the Philippines as a threat.
April 26, 2024
South Korea, Japan and the United States staged long-planned joint naval exercises involving an American aircraft carrier to ensure readiness against nuclear and
April 12, 2024A national election in the Solomon Islands, the first since Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare signed a security pact with Beijing, will be watched next
April 26, 2024
Business deals that the Philippines secured at a summit with Japan and the United States will not affect China's investments in the Philippines, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr
April 26, 2024
A cooperation agreement by the Philippines, the United States and Japan will change the dynamic in the South China Sea and the region, Philippine President Ferdinand
April 26, 2024
Media reports say multiple people have been stabbed and that the police shot a person at a Sydney shopping center
April 13, 2024
A Pakistani police official says a search is underway for gunmen who killed eight people after abducting them from a bus on a highway in the country’s southwest
April 12, 2024
Pakistan's central bank has repaid $1 billion in Eurobonds, it said on Saturday, a scheduled payment ahead of the South Asian nation seeking a long-term bailout
April 26, 2024
It’s water festival time in Thailand where many are marking the country’s traditional New Year, splashing each other with colorful water guns and buckets in an often raucous celebration that draws thousands of people, even as this year the Southeast Asian nation marks record-high temperatures causing concern
April 13, 2024
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Kritenbrink will travel to China April 14-16, the State Department said on Saturday.
April 26, 2024
Chancellor Olaf Scholz kicked off a three-day tour of China on Sunday to shore up ties with Germany's top trade partner and address rifts
July 02, 2024
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker Nio's founder called for openness in a rare speech in the United States, where politicians have been seeking to further restrict
April 26, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed to boost social spending, develop infrastructure and make India a global manufacturing hub as companies shift away from China
April 14, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
April 26, 2024
Oil prices fell at Asia's open on Monday, as market participants dialled back risk premiums following Iran's attack on Israel late on Saturday which the Israeli
April 26, 2024
Pakistani police are investigated the shooting death of a suspect in the killing of accused Indian spy Sarabjit Singh in prison in 2013
April 14, 2024
China's top official on Hong Kong affairs said the city should "tightly hold" onto the bottom line of national security to safeguard development, in
April 26, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government are increasingly wielding strong-arm tactics to subdue political opponents and critics of the ruling Hindu-nationalist party
April 15, 2024
Asia stocks are mostly lower as worries about potentially escalating tensions in the Middle East rattle financial markets
April 15, 2024
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Monday the trilateral agreement signed between his country and the United States and Japan was not directed at anyone, but merely a
April 26, 2024
Microsoft backed artificial intelligence startup OpenAI made a pitch for business in Japan on Monday as it opened its first Asia office in Tokyo.
April 26, 2024
The country in which China has gained most influence in the South Pacific, Solomon Islands, goes to the polls on Wednesday in an election that could shape the region’s future
April 15, 2024
U.S. electric carmaker Tesla is looking at potential showroom locations in New Delhi and Mumbai ahead of plans to begin sales in India later this
April 26, 2024
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will relinquish his office on May 15 and hand the post to his deputy Lawrence Wong, his office said Monday
April 15, 2024
A civil lawsuit demanding damages for alleged racial discrimination by police in Japan has opened in Tokyo District Court
April 15, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for fair competition in trade relations with China while warning about dumping and overproduction as he spoke to students in Shanghai on Monday
April 15, 2024
China is backing Russia's war
April 26, 2024
The top U.S. diplomat for East Asia discussed Middle East developments, the South China Sea and Taiwan issues with Chinese counterparts in Beijing, the State Department said on
April 15, 2024For decades, Vietnamese people often been relegated to the background in popular cinematic depictions of the Vietnam War
April 15, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
April 26, 2024
Asian stocks fell and the dollar climbed to more than five-month highs on Tuesday as stronger-than-expected U.S. retail sales for March further reinforced
July 02, 2024
China’s economy beat expectations in the first quarter of the year with help from policies and an increase in demand
April 16, 2024
Apple CEO Tim Cook said Tuesday that he wants to further increase investment in Vietnam a day after the company announced it would spending on suppliers in the Southeast Asian manufacturing hub
April 16, 2024
A report from the website 38 North says that North Korea is putting surveillance cameras in schools and workplaces in a technology-driven push to monitor its population even more closely
April 16, 2024
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says police have seized the largest haul of methamphetamine in the country in years without anybody being killed, in a subtle criticism of his predecessor’s notoriously deadly crackdown on illegal drugs
April 16, 2024
Tesla's global job cuts are hitting China, the automaker's biggest market after the United States, affecting staff in teams including sales, two sources briefed on the matter said
April 26, 2024
Asian shares have skidded following a slump on Wall Street after higher yields in the U.S. bond market cranked up pressure on stocks
April 16, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has told Chinese leader Xi Jinping who hosted him in Beijing that Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine threatens global security, in an apparent call for China to apply greater pressure on its neighbor to end the war
April 16, 2024
Intel will release two AI chips with reduced capabilities for the Chinese market, in order to comply with U.S. export controls and sanctions.
April 26, 2024
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has spoken with China’s national defense minister in the latest in a series of U.S. steps to improve communications with the Chinese military and reduce unsafe and aggressive incidents in the Indo-Pacific
April 16, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
April 26, 2024
Wu Huazhan's Chinese television factory used to impose minimum orders to manage production efficiently.
May 07, 2024
The Solomon Islands began voting in a national election on Wednesday, the first since Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in 2022 struck a security pact with China and drew the Pacific
April 16, 2024China and the United States should explore ways for a pragmatic and cooperative relationship between their militaries, and "gradually accumulate mutual trust", the Chinese defence
April 26, 2024
Oil prices eased in early trade on Wednesday as worries about global demand due to weak economic momentum in China and fading hopes for U.S. interest rate cuts in
April 26, 2024
Voting has begun across the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific nation’s first general election since the government switched diplomatic allegiances from Taiwan to Beijing and struck a secret security pact that has raised fears of the Chinese navy gaining a foothold in the region
April 17, 2024
Taiwan's homegrown submarine programme will remain on track, the defence minister said on Wednesday, after the head of the programme resigned due to what he said were unfair attacks
April 26, 2024
Morgan Stanley is cutting around 50 investment banking jobs in the Asia-Pacific region due to a deals slump, sources with knowledge of the matter said.
July 02, 2024
Japan recorded a trade deficit for the third straight fiscal year as the costs of energy and other imports rose and the yen remained weak
April 17, 2024
Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest
April 17, 2024
Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the United States are slightly more likely than the overall adult population to believe in human-caused climate change
April 17, 2024
Australia will boost defence spending by A$50.3 billion ($32 billion) over the next decade and reshuffle its weapons programs to emphasise missiles, drones and
April 17, 2024The U.S., South Korea and Japan are pushing for a new multi-national panel of experts, possibly outside the U.N., to ensure sanctions enforcement against North Korea
April 26, 2024
Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company is “looking at” manufacturing in Indonesia as he met with Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday
April 17, 2024
Asian shares are trading mixed after most U.S. stocks slipped on firmer expectations that the Fed is committed to its current rate practices
April 17, 2024
Lightning and heavy rains led to 14 deaths in Pakistan, officials said Wednesday, bringing the death toll from four days of extreme weather to at least 63
April 17, 2024
A Muslim community leader in Australia says the father of a boy accused of stabbing two Christian clerics saw no signs of his son’s extremism
April 17, 2024
The U.S. 7th Fleet says a Navy P-8A Poseidon flew through the Taiwan Strait, a day after U.S. and Chinese defense chiefs held their first talks since Nov. 2022
April 17, 2024
Philippine and U.S. forces will simulate retaking enemy-occupied islands during joint military drills starting next week in areas facing Taiwan and the South China
April 17, 2024Japanese companies are increasingly hitching their growth plans to the United States, as concerns about Chinese demand and Beijing's influence over
April 26, 2024
Loss-making Chinese AI company SenseTime Group said on Tuesday it has completed a major organizational restructuring aimed at ramping up its shift toward generative AI technologies
December 04, 2024
Global investors are queueing up to invest in data centre operators in Asia Pacific either by buying stakes
December 04, 2024
Volkswagen AG said on Wednesday it has developed a new architecture for intelligent and electric cars with its Chinese partner Xpeng, which the German automaker said
April 26, 2024
Pakistan's interior ministry said on Wednesday it ordered the temporary blockage of social media platform X in February on national security concerns, confirming a long-suspected
April 17, 2024
China is urging colleges and universities to provide "love education" to emphasise positive views on marriage, love, fertility and family, in a bid to boost the country's
December 04, 2024
Electric aircraft maker Eve has signed a letter of intent with Japan's public helicopter charter service company AirX to sell up to 50 electric vertical take-off and landing (
April 26, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson is forging ahead toward a vote later this week on a package of Ukraine funding that also includes Israel and Taiwan
April 17, 2024
Asian countries probably don't want it and they certainly didn't cause it, but a 'beggar thy neighbor' wave of exchange rate depreciation may be about to
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration is expected to grant a request by South Korea’s Hanwha Qcells to reverse a two-year-old trade exemption that has allowed
April 26, 2024
Indonesian authorities have issued a tsunami alert after eruptions at Ruang mountain sent ash thousands of feet high
April 17, 2024
President Joe Biden on Wednesday raised the possibility that an uncle who served in the Pacific campaign during World War Two might have fallen victim to cannibals after his
May 07, 2024
Japan and the United States agreed to closely communicate on currency markets, Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Wednesday after a meeting with
April 26, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
April 26, 2024
With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn’t really pour or flood — at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralyzed Dubai
April 17, 2024
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the dominant producer of advanced chips used in artificial intelligence applications, is expected to report a 5% rise in first-quarter profit
April 26, 2024
The Philippines' decision to ramp up ties with Japan and the United States is a "sovereign choice", its foreign ministry said on Thursday, urging China to "reflect upon its own
April 18, 2024
America stands with Japan until all Japanese abducted by North Korea decades ago return home to end their painful separation
April 18, 2024
An editorial in a Chinese state-controlled newspaper on Thursday admonished "two-faced" Japan for inaccurately portraying it as a regional security threat while chasing more stable
April 26, 2024
Indonesian authorities closed an international airport and residents left homes near an erupting volcano due to spreading ash, falling rocks and the possibility of a tsunami
April 18, 2024
The Chinese and Indonesian foreign ministers called for an immediate and lasting cease-fire in Gaza after a meeting in Jakarta on Thursday, condemning the humanitarian costs of the ongoing war that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians
April 18, 2024
Asian shares have advanced even after sinking technology stocks sent Wall Street lower again
April 18, 2024
Japanese authorities say that a strong earthquake that struck the country's southwest Japan has left nine people with minor injuries
April 18, 2024
Mexico's federal government, under pressure from the U.S., is keeping Chinese automakers at arm's length by refusing to offer such incentives as low-cost public
April 26, 2024
Formula 1 returns to China this weekend after a five-year absence
April 18, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
May 03, 2024
The Solomon Islands' pro-China Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has retained his seat in the national election, local media reported late on Friday but it won't be known
May 04, 2024
North Korean officials met with a visiting Belarusian delegation and vowed deeper cooperation, as Pyongyang criticized the United States for trying to increase "lawless
May 03, 2024
TSMC's Taipei-listed shares tumbled 6.7% on Friday following the company's first-quarter earnings report in which it dialled back its expectations for chip sector growth and did not
May 03, 2024
Millions of Indians are voting in a six-week election that’s a referendum on Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi
April 19, 2024
Apple said on Friday it had removed Meta Platforms' WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China after being ordered to do so by the Chinese government, which
May 06, 2024
The Biden administration's threat to impose more tariffs on China is the latest election-year signal that frostier relations with China are likely to follow regardless
May 05, 2024
Five Japanese autoworkers have narrowly escaped an attack by a suicide bomber who detonated his explosive-laden vest near their vehicle in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi
April 19, 2024
Asian stocks have tumbled, with Japan’s Nikkei slumping 2.4% on heavy selling of semiconductor-related shares and other market heavyweights
April 19, 2024
San Francisco is the latest U_S_ city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing’s famed “panda diplomacy.”
April 19, 2024
An important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X, saying it violates citizens’ right to speech and expression
April 19, 2024
More people living near an erupting volcano on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island are being evacuated
April 19, 2024
The American envoy to the United Nations has called for countries armed with atomic weapons to pursue nuclear disarmament as she visited the atomic bomb museum in Nagasaki, Japan
April 19, 2024
China on Friday slapped a levy on imports of an acid from the United States widely used in food, feed, pesticides and medical fields, amid heightened tensions with Washington over
May 04, 2024
Apple says it has removed Meta’s WhatsApp messaging app and its Threads social media app from the App Store in China on Beijing’s orders
April 19, 2024
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) must tread cautiously in raising interest rates, as some indicators of inflation expectations remain short of its 2% target, the
May 05, 2024
An attorney wants a federal court to overturn a Florida law that she says discriminates against Chinese citizens by barring their purchase of real estate in much of the state
April 19, 2024The success of Japan and South Korea at inserting language voicing concern over their currencies in a joint statement with the U.S. this week underscores the
May 06, 2024
A Bangkok-based plastics firm has agreed to pay $20 million to settle with the U.S. over 467 violations of Iran sanctions
April 19, 2024
Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Friday authorities would take appropriate action against excessive currency market moves, repeating his warning to investors
May 06, 2024
Officials in Thailand say about 1,300 people have fled from eastern Myanmar into Thailand as fresh fighting erupted at a border town that has recently been captured by ethnic guerillas
April 20, 2024
China's foreign minister Wang Yi on Saturday said the South Pacific region should not become an arena for major power rivalries and that its assistance to countries there is free
May 06, 2024
Japan’s Defense Minister says two Maritime Self Defense Force helicopters are believed to have crashed in the Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo during night-time training
April 20, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China this coming week as Washington and Beijing try to keep ties on an even keel despite major differences on a range of issue, from the Middle East to opioids
April 20, 2024
A Pakistani province has issued a flood alert because of glacial melting and is warning of a heavy loss of life if timely safety measures aren't undertaken
April 20, 2024
Revelations of nearly two dozen Chinese swimmers whose positive doping tests went unpunished have sparked an intense flurry of accusations and legal threats between the World Anti-Doping Agency and the head of the U.S. drug-fighting organization
April 20, 2024
Taiwan's military said on Sunday it will discuss with the United States how to use funding for Taipei included in a $95 billion legislative package mostly providing
April 20, 2024
Two Japanese navy helicopters crashed into the sea during a training exercise, killing at least one of the eight crew members on board, the defence minister said on Sunday.
April 21, 2024
South Korea on Sunday protested Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine with "deep disappointment" and urged Japanese leaders to show repentance
April 21, 2024Maldivians are voting in parliamentary elections, in a ballot crucial for President Mohamed Muizzu, whose policies are keenly watched by India and China as they vie for influence in the archipelago nation
April 21, 2024
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has arrived in Cambodia for a three-day official visit to reaffirm ties with Beijing’s closest ally in Southeast Asia
April 21, 2024
Officials say a race car veered off the track during a competition in Sri Lanka and rammed into a crowd of spectators and race officials, killing seven people and injuring 20 others
April 21, 2024
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May 06, 2024
The chip powering the Mate 60 Pro phone of sanctioned Chinese company Huawei is not as advanced as American chips, U.S.
May 06, 2024
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape says his nation does not deserve to be labelled cannibals, and urged the U.S. to clear up the remnants of World War Two
July 02, 2024
Nearly 17,000 Filipino and American troops kicked off a three-week joint combat training exercise in the Philippines on Monday that includes maritime drills in the South China Sea
April 21, 2024
Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu’s political party has swept parliamentary elections in a strong endorsement of his pro-China foreign policy
April 22, 2024
China's data-driven quant trading funds are briskly expanding overseas as competition heats up at home and regulators tighten scrutiny of
May 07, 2024
Markets in Asia apart from Shanghai’s are broadly higher, shrugging off the blues on Wall Street after big technology stocks logged their worst week since the COVID crash in 2020
April 22, 2024
Japan's defense ministry says an initial analysis of flight data recorders recovered from the crash of two Japanese navy helicopters showed no sign of mechanical problems, indicating likely human error
April 22, 2024
Voters at some polling places in a northeastern Indian state went back to the polls amid tight security on Monday after violence disrupted the vote last week
April 22, 2024
The Solomon Islands election, watched by China and the U.S. for its impact on regional security, is shaping up as a tight race with opposition parties gaining seats and
May 07, 2024
South Korea says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile off the North’s east coast
April 22, 2024
One of China’s top military leaders has taken a harsh line on regional territorial disputes, telling an international naval gathering in northeastern China that the country would strike back with force if its interests came under threat
April 22, 2024
Indonesian authorities reopened an international airport near a volcano that erupted last week as they lowered warnings
April 22, 2024
American and Filipino forces have launched their largest combat exercises in years in a show of allied firepower that will include joint sails with the French navy and a ship-sinking drill near the disputed South China Sea that has alarmed Beijing
April 22, 2024
Just a few years ago, lucrative business prospects in China on the back of a booming economy led to a scramble among Western financial firms, from
July 02, 2024
Three Germans have been arrested on suspicion of working with the Chinese secret service to hand over technology that could be used for military
May 07, 2024
Taiwan's export orders rose less than expected in March, but the government said it expected surging demand for artificial intelligence (AI) applications to fuel future demand for
May 07, 2024
Indonesia’s top court has rejected appeals by two losing presidential candidates who demanded a revote, alleging widespread irregularities and fraud in the February polls
April 22, 2024
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi and Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif vowed on Monday to boost trade between the neighbouring nations to $10 billion a year, as Raisi
May 07, 2024
The world’s top anti-doping regulator says after reviewing a documentary and other media reports that it stands by its decision to clear 23 Chinese swimmers to compete at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics despite testing positive for a banned heart medication
April 22, 2024
In the two years before the World Anti-Doping Agency cleared 23 Chinese swimmers of doping allegations, that country’s government contributed nearly $2 million in additional funding to WADA programs, including one designed to strengthen the agency’s investigations and intelligence unit
April 22, 2024
Beijing is continuing to commit genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in its western Xinjiang province, U.S.
May 07, 2024
A cluster of earthquakes has struck Taiwan, the strongest measuring 6.1 magnitude
April 22, 2024
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May 07, 2024
Solomon Islands faces a nervous wait to establish a government as opposition parties vie with incumbent Prime Minister Manesseh Sogavare's OUR party to form a
May 08, 2024
Elon Musk lashed out at Australia's prime minister on Tuesday after a court ordered his social media company X take down footage of an alleged terrorist
July 02, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised salvo launches of the country’s “super-large” multiple rocket launchers that simulated a nuclear counterattack against enemy targets, state media said Tuesday, adding to his belligerent testing activities and threats that have raised tensions in the region
April 22, 2024
Japan Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday last week's trilateral meeting with his U.S. and South Korean counterparts likely laid the groundwork for Tokyo to take
May 07, 2024
A report by the American Chamber of Commerce in China says that simmering tensions between Beijing and Washington remain the top worry for U.S. companies operating in China
April 23, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is starting three days of talks with senior Chinese officials in Shanghai and Beijing this week
April 23, 2024
Malaysia’s navy says two military helicopters collided and crashed during a training session, killing all 10 people on board
April 23, 2024
India’s main opposition party is accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of hate speech after he called Muslims “infiltrators” and used some of his most incendiary rhetoric to date about the minority faith
April 23, 2024
Vietnam's top tech firm FPT plans to build a $200 million artificial intelligence (AI) factory using Nvidia's graphics chips and software, the two firms said on Tuesday.
May 07, 2024
Asian benchmarks are mostly higher after U.S. stocks clawed back some of their losses from last week
April 23, 2024
The increase in China's defence spending is concerning given its economy is "failing", the head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said on Tuesday.
May 07, 2024
A top U.S. arms control official said on Tuesday the country was likely, although not guaranteed, to meet a new deadline to finalise trade exemptions for the AUKUS
May 07, 2024
Japan's service activity swung back to growth in November as improving demand supported new business, a private sector survey showed on Wednesday.
December 04, 2024China's services activity expanded at a slower pace in November, pressured by easing new business growth, including in exports, a private sector survey showed, as the economy
December 04, 2024
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said Chinese navy and coast guard vessels had taken "aggressive actions" against a routine patrol by it and the fisheries bureau near the contested
December 04, 2024Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has postponed his scheduled visit to South Korea this week, his spokesperson said on Wednesday.
December 04, 2024
Taiwan's top China policymaker on Wednesday said Chinese military threats would only drive the two sides further apart, as state media in the island's
December 04, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
May 08, 2024
Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said the country will continue to build overwhelming and the strongest military power to protect its sovereignty
May 08, 2024
By most measures, the last thing China needs is more electric cars crowding a market with more losers than winners, driving down prices at the expense of profit and taking the
May 08, 2024
Chinese-backed Swedish electric vehicle (EV) maker Polestar Automotive is accelerating efforts to produce more vehicles outside China in view of rising geopolitical tensions, its
May 09, 2024
Asian shares have tracked Wall Street's rally, led by a 2.4% advance for Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei 225 index
April 24, 2024
China blasted the latest package of U_S_ military assistance to Taiwan, saying such funding was pushing the self-governing island republic into a “dangerous situation.”
April 24, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has begun a critical trip to China armed with a strengthened diplomatic hand following Senate approval of a foreign aid package that will provide billions of dollars in assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan as well as force TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the social media platform -– all areas of contention between Washington and Beijing
April 24, 2024
Foreign automakers have been caught flat-footed in China by an electric vehicle boom that has shaken up the market over the last three years
April 24, 2024
Korean Air is in talks over the purchase of at least 10 Boeing 777X jetliners in a potential tilt back towards its traditional U.S. supplier
May 08, 2024
Japan Airlines will continue using both Airbus and Boeing aircraft, President Mitsuko Tottori said on Wednesday.
May 08, 2024
Guerrilla fighters from the main ethnic Karen fighting force battling Myanmar’s military government have withdrawn from the eastern border town of Myawaddy two weeks after forcing the army to give up its defense
April 24, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
May 09, 2024
North Korea will take more action to maintain its military power despite U.S. sanctions pressure that has only made the country stronger, a North Korean foreign ministry official
April 24, 2024
Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia (PEA) is reorganising its teams in the region as its current chief executive of Asia Chin Chou is retiring, according to an internal
May 09, 2024
China should have the confidence to talk to Taiwan's legally elected government, President-elect Lai Ching-te said on Thursday as he appointed his new
July 02, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has opened his first full day of meetings in China by talking with local government officials in Shanghai
April 25, 2024
China defended the veracity of its economic numbers and asserted its military spending was "transparent and reasonable", while dismissing as "typical double standards"
May 09, 2024
South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co warned on Thursday of intensifying competition and uncertain global economic conditions after posting a 2.4%
May 09, 2024
China is providing moorage for a U.S.-sanctioned Russian cargo ship implicated in North Korean arms transfers to Russia, according to
May 09, 2024
A trial of a former government official charged with killing his wife has riveted Kazakhstan with lurid video of the attack, sparking a national conversation about domestic violence and leading to the government enacting a tougher law on spousal abuse
April 25, 2024
Asian shares are mostly lower as investors look ahead to a flood of global earnings reports, including from U_S_ companies known as the “Magnificent Seven.”
April 25, 2024
China's largest auto show opened in Beijing on Thursday with the biggest names showing off their latest electric vehicles (EVs
May 10, 2024
Global automakers and EV startups are unveiling new models and concept cars at China’s largest auto show, with a focus on the nation’s transformation into a major market and production base for digitally connected, new-energy vehicles
April 25, 2024
Republican China hardliners Marco Rubio and Elise Stefanik are calling on the Biden administration to block all sales to Huawei after the sanctioned Chinese
May 10, 2024
Senior Chinese military officials held separate meetings with U.S. and Russian naval counterparts during a Western Pacific naval symposium in Qingdao this week, a
May 10, 2024
The NFL will expand its international search for talent by opening an academy in rugby-mad Australia to develop promising teenagers in the Asia-Pacific region into college and pro prospects
April 25, 2024
A group of Chinese chip companies led by Huawei Technologies and backed by the country's government aims to produce high-bandwidth memory (HBM) semiconductors, a key component in AI chips
May 10, 2024
The Biden administration is not taking any options off the table to respond to China's excess industrial capacity, which is a top concern
July 02, 2024
TikTok owner ByteDance would prefer to shut down its loss-making app rather than sell it if the Chinese company exhausts all legal options to fight
May 12, 2024
The South Korean leader seeks to strengthen ties with the US and Japan. But he might be hamstrung by domestic concerns.
April 19, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
May 10, 2024
Beijing city authorities have announced subsidies for firms that purchase domestically produced artificial intelligence (AI) chips, as China seeks to develop its semiconductor
May 11, 2024
Millions of Indians are voting in the second round of multi-phase national elections with some big names in the contest
April 26, 2024
Asian shares are mostly higher despite worries about the economic outlook and inflation in the U.S. and globally
April 26, 2024
China’s vision of the future of the automobile — electrified and digitally connected — is on display at the ongoing Beijing auto show
April 26, 2024
Russia and its allies in Asia should expand joint military exercises as they face a direct threat from attempts by the United States to expand its security influence in the region,
May 12, 2024
Philippine forces have killed an Abu Sayyaf militant who had been implicated in past beheadings including of 10 Filipino marines and two kidnapped Vietnamese
April 26, 2024
South Korean police have searched the office of the hard-line incoming leader of a doctors association and confiscated his mobile phone
April 26, 2024
Vietnamese state media outlet VN Express reports that the head of Vietnam’s Parliament, Vuong Dinh Hue, has resigned
April 26, 2024
The U.S. and Taiwan will hold another round of negotiations toward their "21st Century" trade agreement starting on Monday in Taipei, the U.S.
May 13, 2024
China will host Palestinian unity talks between Islamist militant group Hamas and its rivals Fatah, the two groups and a Beijing-based
May 13, 2024
Taiwan reported renewed Chinese military activity near the island on Saturday with 12 aircraft crossing the
May 13, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up his just-concluded latest visit to China with a stop at a Beijing record store where he bought albums by Taylor Swift and Chinese rocker Dou Wei in a symbolic nod to cross-cultural exchanges and understanding he had been promoting for three days
April 27, 2024
Cambodia’s prime minister says 20 soldiers have been killed and several others injured in an ammunition explosion at a base in the west of the country
April 27, 2024
Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrived in Beijing on Sunday on an unannounced visit, where he was expected to discuss the rollout of Full Self-Driving (FSD) software and permission to
July 02, 2024
Security is tight around a military base in southwestern Cambodia, a day after a huge explosion there killed 20 soldiers, wounded others and damaged nearby houses
April 28, 2024
Nepal is hosting an investment summit, hoping to attract much-needed foreign investment
April 28, 2024Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk has arrived in the Chinese capital, just as the nation’s carmakers are showing off their latest electric vehicle models at the Beijing auto show
April 28, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s governing party appears to have lost all three seats in Sunday’s parliamentary by-elections
April 28, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
May 14, 2024
North Korea criticized the United States for supplying long-range missiles to Ukraine, state media KCNA reported on Monday, citing a statement from the defence ministry.
April 28, 2024A data analysis shows Indonesia had a 27% increase in primary forest loss in 2023
April 29, 2024
Elon Musk made progress towards rolling out Tesla's advanced driver-assistance package in China on a whirlwind weekend trip to Beijing, sending the
May 14, 2024
Asian shares are higher amid optimism over the rally that ended the week on Wall Street, although eyes are on the Federal Reserve policy meeting set for later this week
April 29, 2024
China will send a robotic spacecraft in coming days on a round trip to the moon's far side in the first of three technically demanding missions that
May 14, 2024
Baidu, China's major internet search company, reached an agreement with Tesla to grant the car company access to its mapping license for data collection on China's public roads, two
May 14, 2024
A Hong Kong transgender activist has received a new ID card reflecting his gender change, after a yearslong legal battle to change the document, and he vowed to continue working for equality for the LGBTQ+ community
April 29, 2024
Chinese shoppers are spending a little more on diapers and some Colgate toothpastes, according to executives at the makers of these products, even as consumers
May 14, 2024
Meetings with Joe Biden and Donald Trump suggest Japan is hedging over the outcome of the US election.
April 29, 2024
The value of Japan’s currency has tumbled so much that for a moment on Monday it took 160 yen to equal $1
April 29, 2024
Congress has given one of its highest final tributes, a lying in honor ceremony at the Capitol, to Medal of Honor Recipient Ralph Puckett Jr. He led an outnumbered company in battle during the Korean War and was the last surviving veteran of that war to receive the Medal of Honor
April 29, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
May 14, 2024
Manasseh Sogavare, the Solomon Islands prime minister who drew his nation close to China, sharpening the United States' focus on the strategic importance of the
May 15, 2024
Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion over the next four years into expanding cloud services and artificial intelligence in Indonesia, including building data
May 15, 2024
Australia's food safety agency is collecting information on the possible contamination of spice mixes sold by Indian companies MDH and
May 15, 2024
If Tesla succeeds in bringing its "Full Self-Driving" system to China, the world's largest car market, the U.S. electric-car pioneer will be shifting into the fast lane of
May 15, 2024
Indonesia’s Mount Ruang volcano has erupted for a second time in two weeks, spewing ash more than a mile into the sky, closing an airport and peppering nearby villages with debris
April 30, 2024
Asian stocks fall with most of the markets in the region closed for a holiday after U.S. stocks closed out their worst month since September
April 30, 2024
The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China staged a sit-in protest outside his lab after authorities locked him out of the facility
April 30, 2024
Elon Musk's surprise visit to China this week won concessions for Tesla but left India feeling spurned after he cancelled a scheduled trip there for earlier this
July 02, 2024
A Chinese spacecraft has returned to Earth with three astronauts who lived for six months on the country’s space station
April 30, 2024
A Bank of Korea official on Wednesday said the bank's monetary policy board will convene an extraordinary board meeting at around 9 a.m.
December 03, 2024
Netflix's subscribers passed 10 million in Japan in the first half of this year with the streaming firm's Japanese-language programming grabbing attention in the
December 03, 2024
Chinese coast guard ships have fired water cannons at two Philippine patrol vessels near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, damaging both, in the latest flareup in an increasingly tense territorial conflict
April 30, 2024
Chinese companies should be wary of buying U.S. chips as they are "no longer safe" and buy locally instead, four of the country's top industry
December 03, 2024
Severe floods caused by monsoon rains have killed more than 30 people and displaced tens of thousands in Malaysia and southern Thailand, with both countries preparing shelters and evacuation plans in anticipation of more heavy rain
December 03, 2024
Rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah have expressed the will to seek reconciliation through dialogue at unity talks in Beijing,
May 15, 2024
The Japanese town of Fujikawaguchiko has had enough of tourists
April 30, 2024
International companies cannot responsibly operate in Xinjiang and should leave the western Chinese region due to forced labor concerns, a U.S.
May 15, 2024
Hena Khan, a grade nine student in Dhaka, has struggled to focus on her studies this week as temperatures surpassed 43 degrees Celsius (109 degrees Fahrenheit
May 16, 2024
Yemen's Houthis said on Tuesday they targeted the MSC Orion container ship in a drone attack in the Indian Ocean as part of their ongoing
May 15, 2024
Gunmen attacked a mosque in western Afghanistan on Monday night during prayer time, killing at least five people, a spokesperson for
April 30, 2024North American graphite miners are lobbying the US government to impose a 25% tariff on three graphite products sourced from China in order to counter Beijing's
May 15, 2024
U.S. officials are urging telecommunication companies to boost network security following a Chinese hacking operation that gave officials in Beijing access to the private texts and phone conversations of Americans
December 03, 2024China Evergrande Group flagged a delay in publishing its annual results as its liquidators are taking time to "ascertain the current state of affairs" of the embattled property developer.
May 15, 2024
When Jacky Yu, 48, opened his Japanese gift shop in Hong Kong more than a decade ago, the tourist and shopping district of Mong Kok was
May 15, 2024
Indonesia's Ruang volcano erupted on Tuesday, spewing lava as lightning flashes lit up its crater, prompting authorities to raise the alert status and evacuate more than 12,000
July 02, 2024
Japan stands ready to deal with foreign exchange matters around the clock, top currency diplomat Masato Kanda said on Tuesday, as money market
May 15, 2024
The Philippines on Tuesday accused China's coast guard of harassment and of damaging two of its boats in a disputed area of the South China Sea, rejecting Beijing's position
May 15, 2024
Half of the Chinese cities targeted by the government for air quality improvements have missed their targets as the country prioritised strengthening the economy
May 15, 2024
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan World markets stalled on Tuesday as another heavy earnings week for megacap stocks cranked up, with renewed slippage in Japan's yen
May 15, 2024
Cases of negative equity in Hong Kong's residential mortgage loans rose 27% in the first quarter from the previous one to the highest in 20 years, the city's de facto central
May 15, 2024
The Chinese Communist Party's central committee will gather in July for a key meeting known as a plenum, the third since the body of elite decision makers was elected in 2022,
May 15, 2024
Growth slowed in China's manufacturing and services sectors in April, official surveys showed on Tuesday, suggesting a loss of momentum for the world's
May 15, 2024
China Vanke's first public commercial real estate investment products closed flat on their debut on Tuesday, reflecting caution towards China's second-largest developer amid a
May 15, 2024
Indonesia may offer dual citizenship to people of Indonesian descent to entice more skilled workers into the country, a senior cabinet minister said on Tuesday.
May 15, 2024
Relatively lower inflation in Asia means the region's central banks can focus more on domestic conditions and less on what the U.S.
May 15, 2024
Embattled Chinese property developer Fantasia said on Monday it has entered into a new agreement with its ad hoc group of bondholders to restructure its $4 billion
May 15, 2024
China's manufacturing activity expanded at the fastest pace in 14 months in April, driven by a solid uptick in new export orders, a private survey showed on Tuesday, an encouraging
May 15, 2024
U.S. hedge fund Elliott Management Corp has bought a stake in Sumitomo Corp worth several tens of billions of yen, a person familiar with the situation said on
May 15, 2024
China's non-manufacturing activity expanded at a slower pace in April, an official survey showed on Tuesday, likely due to disruption caused to construction and services businesses
May 15, 2024
Japan's factory output grew more than expected in March, government data showed on Tuesday, thanks largely to automakers resuming production after safety scandals.
May 15, 2024
The former vice minister of China's Ministry of Justice is under disciplinary review and supervisory investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the
April 30, 2024Japan's yen saw a sudden jump on Monday, suggesting the country's authorities may have finally followed through on the FX market intervention warnings they have be
May 15, 2024
Japan's jobless rate in March was unchanged at 2.6% compared to February, government data showed on Tuesday.
May 15, 2024
Amy Wang was counting on a 100,000 yuan ($13,800) subsidy promised by authorities in the eastern Chinese city of Weifang to fit and
May 15, 2024
South Korea's factory output fell in March by the most in 15 months, government data showed on Tuesday, missing market expectations.
May 15, 2024
India summoned the Canadian Deputy High Commissioner on Monday and expressed "deep concern and strong protest" after separatist slogans in support of a Sikh homeland were
May 15, 2024
The Peruvian government is looking to avoid an international arbitration process which could be filed by Chinese port operator Cosco Shipping over a legal dispute regarding
May 14, 2024
The executive board of the International Monetary Fund approved $1.1 billion in funding for Pakistan on Monday, the agency said in a statement, amid discussions for a new loan.
May 14, 2024
Japan's currency surged as much as 5 yen against the dollar from a fresh 34-year low hit earlier on Monday, with traders citing yen-
May 14, 2024
Bangladesh again closed all primary schools across the country and educational institutions in almost half of districts including the capital as a severe heatwave saw
May 14, 2024
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD posted its weakest quarterly profit growth since 2022 on Monday while its revenue growth slowed to the lowest level in nearly four years, hit
May 14, 2024
Margins at China's Big Five lenders shrank during the first quarter as banks came under pressure to support cash-starved property developers while loan demand remained weak
May 14, 2024
Retired diplomat Maris Sangiampongsa is the top candidate to become Thailand's new foreign minister, multiple sources said on Monday, after the previous holder of the post
April 29, 2024The Philippines has closed schools down and warned of overloading on its power grid, as authorities across Southeast Asia issued a series of health alerts for
May 14, 2024
India's southern state of Karnataka will investigate a lawmaker whose party is a key ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on suspicion of sexual
April 29, 2024South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol met opposition leader Lee Jae-myung for talks on Monday after a crushing election defeat for the president's ruling party led to
May 14, 2024
China's manufacturing activity in April likely expanded at a slower pace, a Reuters poll showed on Monday, indicating the country's sprawling factory sector may have lost some
May 14, 2024
A Thai court sentenced a prominent jailed activist lawyer on Monday to a further two years in prison for royal insults relating to a speech he made at a 2021 protest, his lawyer
May 14, 2024
An appliance maker in southern China is finding it hard to ship its products to Russia, not because of any problems with the gadgets but because China's big banks are throttling payments
May 14, 2024
Japan's yen hit a three-decade low on Monday before rebounding in a move currency traders suspected was official intervention.
May 14, 2024
Shares of Chinese property developers rallied on Monday on speculation more stimulus measures are likely to be unveiled this week aimed at clearing
May 14, 2024
Three people, including a two-year-old boy, died after a Huawei-backed Aito M7 SUV burst into flames following a collision with a truck on a highway in the Chinese city of Yuncheng
April 29, 2024South Korea's exports are expected to have risen at a faster pace in April, extending gains for a seventh straight month on strong chip sales, a Reuters poll showed on
May 14, 2024
The yen jumped suddenly against the dollar on Monday, with traders citing yen-buying intervention by Japanese authorities to boost the currency that is languishing near 34-year lows.
May 14, 2024
Japan's yen strengthened sharply on Monday in a move market participants said pointed to yen-buying intervention from Japanese authorities to stabilise the sliding currency.
May 14, 2024
China International Capital Corp (CICC) is cutting the base pay of onshore investment bankers by as much as 25%, three sources said, in a major
May 14, 2024
Taiwan's trade-dependent economy likely grew faster in the first quarter, supported by a rebound in exports amid upbeat demand for the technology that powers artificial intelligence
May 14, 2024
The export controls proposed by Japan related to semiconductors will seriously affect normal trade between Chinese and Japanese enterprises, China's commerce ministry said on
May 14, 2024
Global automakers including Volkswagen and Toyota came to this year's Beijing auto show looking to catch up to surging China EV makers that are
May 14, 2024
Sweltering heat in the Philippines can curb farm production,
May 14, 2024
A tornado that struck the city of Guangzhou in southern China killed five people and left 33 injured, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday, citing local authorities.
May 14, 2024
China's industrial profits fell in March and slowed gains for the quarter compared to the first two months, official data showed on Saturday, raising
May 14, 2024
Hong Kong-based insurer AIA Group on Monday posted a 31% rise in its first-quarter value of new business (VONB) on a constant exchange currency basis helped by strong performance across
May 14, 2024
Thai Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara has resigned, the government said on Sunday, after being removed from the post of deputy prime minister in a cabinet reshuffle, at a
May 14, 2024
Schools in Bangladesh reopened on Sunday despite a heatwave continuing to sweep the South Asian nation, with temperatures expected to climb above 40 degrees Celsius (104
May 14, 2024
China's coast guard confronted Japanese lawmakers in waters claimed by both countries in the East China Sea, China's embassy in Tokyo and Japanese media said on Sunday, the
May 14, 2024
Hong Kong's gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow between 2.5% and 3.5% for the first quarter, maintaining moderate growth for a fifth consecutive quarter, the city's
May 14, 2024
Thai former energy executive Pichai Chunhavajira was named the country's finance minister on Sunday, facing a tough task to revive Southeast Asia's second-
May 14, 2024
South Korea said on Saturday it will consult with Naver, after media reported that the domestic internet company was under pressure from Japan to
May 13, 2024
The two major opposition parties in the Solomon Islands struck a coalition deal on Saturday as they vie with former Prime Minister Manesseh Sogavare's party to form a
May 13, 2024
The Philippines on Saturday denied a Chinese claim that the two countries had reached an agreement over an escalating maritime dispute in the South China Sea, calling the claim
April 27, 2024
North Korea accused the United States on Saturday of politicizing human rights in the East Asian country, denouncing what it called political provocation and conspiracy.
May 13, 2024
A section of a highway collapsed after heavy rains in a mountainous area in southern China, sending cars tumbling down a slope and leaving at least 36 people dead
May 01, 2024
Two earthquakes, the largest a 6.1 magnitude, struck Taiwan's eastern county of Hualien on Saturday, the island's weather administration said, with no immediate reports of damage.
April 26, 2024India held the second phase of the world's biggest election on Friday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his rivals
May 13, 2024
Renault held talks this week with China's Li Auto and Xiaomi on electric and intelligent vehicle technologies, the French carmaker said on Friday, opening the door to potential
May 13, 2024
Hospitals in South Korea's smaller cities are struggling with a lack of physicians, as a nationwide strike of trainee doctors enters its
May 13, 2024
The chairman of Vietnam's parliament Vuong Dinh Hue resigned over unspecified "violations and shortcomings", the ruling Communist Party said on Friday,
May 13, 2024
Thailand called on Friday for the regional bloc ASEAN to take a more proactive role in trying to resolve the crisis in military-ruled Myanmar, after weeks of fighting near its
April 26, 2024
Nomura Holdings, Japan's biggest brokerage and investment bank, reported on Friday a 670% jump in quarterly net profit compared to a year earlier as its retail and
May 12, 2024
CITIC Securities Co, China's biggest brokerage, reported on Friday that first-quarter net profit fell 8.5%, hit by the sluggish investment banking environment.
May 12, 2024
The Bank of Japan kept interest rates around zero on Friday and highlighted a growing conviction that inflation was on track to durably hit its target of 2% in coming
May 12, 2024
China's Bank of Communications Co Ltd (BoCom), reported a 1.44% rise in first-quarter net profit amid a slowing economy.
May 12, 2024
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hailed as a hero Pakistani security guard Faraz Tahir, killed in Sydney while trying to stop a mass stabbing attack, in
April 26, 2024Sri Lanka will hand over management of its $209 million Chinese-built airport to two Indian and Russian companies, a cabinet statement said on Friday, as the island nation attempts
April 26, 2024A South Korean music executive credited with creating popular K-pop group NewJeans denied allegations that she was trying to break her label away from HYBE, home to
May 12, 2024
Pakistan's economic indicators are showing positive signs, with an agenda of painful reforms and privatization on track, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on
May 12, 2024
Japan's factory output likely staged a strong rebound in March from the previous month's decline, with retail sales probably holding firm on booming inbound tourism and easing worry
May 12, 2024
Amundi, Europe's biggest fund manager, posted better-than-expected first-quarter inflows on Friday thanks to its joint ventures in Asia and continued appetite for risk-averse
May 11, 2024
Vietnam will delay the launch of the much-expected new stock trading system initially slated for next week, its State Securities Commission (SSC) said.
May 11, 2024
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Rae Wee The Bank of Japan's (BOJ) decision to keep interest rates around zero didn't come as a surprise, and focus now turns to Governor
May 11, 2024
Armed soldiers loyal to a turncoat warlord patrol the streets of southeastern Myanmar's frontier town of Myawaddy, as troops of the ruling junta and rebels jostle for control of the outpost
May 11, 2024
Hong Kong's private home prices reversed a 10-month falling streak in March, climbing 1.1% from February, after the financial city lifted curbs to boost the ailing property
May 11, 2024
Japanese authorities are facing renewed pressure to combat a sustained depreciation in the yen, as traders drive down the currency on expectations that any further
March 28, 2024South Korea's public finances are no longer a strength for its sovereign credit rating but are now a neutral factor requiring near-term efforts to contain the rise in
May 11, 2024
As the yen plumbs three-decade lows and pressure grows on Japan to intervene or make monetary policy changes, traders figure there is not much Tokyo can do to reverse
May 11, 2024
It has been almost 50 years since the U.S. government established that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders and their accomplishments should be recognized annually across the nation
May 01, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday inspected the test-firing of 240 mm multiple launch rockets manufactured by a newly established defence industry unit, the North's KCNA
May 10, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Wednesday he would lift a surprise martial law declaration he had imposed just hours before, backing down in a
December 03, 2024
Israel stepped up airstrikes on Rafah overnight after saying it would evacuate civilians from the southern Gazan city and launch an all-out assault despite allies
May 10, 2024
Toyota launched a public transport pilot on Thursday with nine fully electric Hilux Revo pickup trucks in Thailand, a key Southeast Asian
May 10, 2024
Sri Lankan shares closed higher on Thursday, driven by gains in financial and industrial stocks.
May 10, 2024
Mercedes-Benz executives said on Thursday the company would continue to invest in tie-ups with Chinese partners including automaker BAIC Group, underscoring the
May 10, 2024
Indonesian president elect Prabowo Subianto received a boost on Thursday after a prominent political party that backed another candidate pledged its support for his administration,
April 25, 2024
Chinese spies hacked the laptop of Els Van Hoof, the chairperson of the Belgian parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee in federal Parliament, back in 2021, she told public
April 25, 2024Birkin bag maker Hermes reported a 17% surge in first-quarter sales on Thursday, sustaining a rapid growth rate from the previous quarter including in China, and
May 10, 2024
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is among individuals being investigated in connection with a graft probe involving his sons, the head of Malaysia's Anti-
May 09, 2024
Japan's Toyota Motor will pair up with China's Tencent while Nissan will team up with Baidu, the companies said on Thursday, cross-border partnerships that
May 09, 2024
Daiwa Securities Group, Japan's second largest brokerage and investment bank, reported on Thursday a 131% year-on-year jump in quarterly net profit, helped by a record
April 25, 2024Three South Korean low-cost carriers are currently in the race to buy Asiana Airlines' cargo business, two people with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday.
May 09, 2024
Asian markets are wobbling in early trading after U.S. stocks swung to a mixed finish with the Federal Reserve delaying cuts to interest rates
May 01, 2024
India's Election Commission said on Thursday it has sought responses from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress on alleged violations of poll rules
May 09, 2024
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has locked in 75,723 orders for its sporty SU7 electric sedan as of April 24, and aims to deliver over 10,000 units in June, founder Lei Jun said on
May 09, 2024
Nissan Motor and Mazda Motor unveiled new cars tailored for Chinese drivers on Thursday, signalling a fresh push by Japanese automakers to regain ground in the
May 09, 2024
The South Korean economy grew at the fastest pace in more than two years in the first quarter beating all estimates with a pick-up in domestic
May 09, 2024
Russian tourist swept to her death by massive wave at Thai island viewpoint
December 04, 2024Toyota Motor said on Thursday its global sales and production hit record highs in the year ended March 31, supported by robust demand and the absence of semiconductor supply
May 09, 2024
South Korean flat-screen maker LG Display returned to an operating loss in the first quarter, hit by weakening demand for large display panels for TVs and small panels
May 09, 2024
Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD unveiled the U7, its third ultra-luxury model under the Yangwang brand, on Thursday, as it makes a push upmarket to increase profitability amid
May 09, 2024
Chinese EV maker BYD will showcase its premium brand's first sedan at the Beijing auto show from Thursday, in a challenge to the likes of Germany's Mercedes-Benz which three years
May 09, 2024
Mercedes-Benz is planning to launch a luxury electric van for the Chinese market based on its VAN.EA platform, the head of the carmaker's vans division told German magazine
May 09, 2024
South Korea's financial market watchdog said on Thursday it was checking the effectiveness of a new monitoring system designed to detect illegal short-selling of domestic stocks
May 09, 2024
Singapore's Keppel said on Thursday its first-quarter net profit excluding the effects of legacy offshore and marine assets was higher, boosted by strong performance in the global asset
May 09, 2024
The European Union and United Nations abruptly rescheduled the launch of an anti-human trafficking program this week after being confronted with questions on the choice of venue: a Phnom Penh hotel owned by a Cambodian tycoon who has another property that has been used by human traffickers
May 01, 2024
Mountain tourism brings revenues to Nepal but leaves a mess behind. Local and international groups are offering new cleanup strategies.
May 01, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday allegations that the aide to a prominent far-right politician had been spying for China were "
May 09, 2024
The executive board of the International Monetary Fund will meet on April 29 to discuss the approval of $1.1 billion funding for Pakistan, the fund
May 09, 2024
The yen fell on Wednesday to its weakest levels against the dollar since 1990, with markets alert to any signs of intervention from the Japanese authorities to prop up their currency.
May 08, 2024
An armed ethnic group in Myanmar has withdrawn its troops from a town along the Thai border following a counteroffensive by the ruling junta from whom rebel fighters wrested the key trading
May 08, 2024
Iran is ready to strengthen ties with Sri Lanka and other Asian countries, its president, Ebrahim Raisi, said on Wednesday, during a short visit to the island
April 24, 2024
Indonesia's central bank delivered a surprise rate hike on Wednesday, stepping up efforts to support the rupiah currency which has fallen to
May 08, 2024
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday she was happy the U.S.
May 08, 2024
Chinese firm Ant Group's Alipay+ has not formally requested a permit for operations in Indonesia, central bank deputy governor Filianingsih Hendarta told a news conference on
May 08, 2024
Embattled Chinese property developer Country Garden said it has won bondholders' approval to further delay payments on three onshore bonds to September, in order to give it more time to
May 08, 2024
Japan's ruling party is not yet in active discussion on what yen levels would be deemed worth intervening in the market, though the currency's
May 08, 2024
Asahi Kasei plans to spend about 200 billion yen ($1.3 billion) to build a battery component factory in Canada, the Nikkei newspaper said on Wednesday.
May 08, 2024
South Korea is considering easing real-time reporting requirements for investors in the nation's $1.8 trillion bond market as it seeks inclusion into FTSE Russell’s
April 24, 2024Scandal-hit Toyota Motor subsidiary Daihatsu aims to fully resume developing vehicles by as early as the end of this year, the president of the compact carmaker told
May 08, 2024
Capital A's Tony Fernandes said on Wednesday he has agreed to put aside retirement plans and has signed a new five-year contract to continue as chief executive
May 08, 2024
Japan's trade and finance ministries said on Wednesday they will initiate an anti-dumping investigation into graphite electrodes from China.
April 24, 2024Standard Chartered has cut its forecast for Vietnam's economic growth this year to 6.0% from 6.7%, the bank said on Wednesday, citing lower-than-expected growth in the first quarter
May 08, 2024
Thailand's economy is projected to grow at a faster pace in 2024 than 2023 supported by private consumption and tourism, but uncertainties remain, minutes of the Bank of Thailand's
April 24, 2024
Australian miner Lynas posted a slump in third-quarter sales revenue on Wednesday, missing analyst expectations on the back of a plunge in prices for rare earths, while it flagged
April 23, 2024Japan's annual business-to-business service inflation accelerated for the second month to hit 2.3% in March, data showed on Wednesday, suggesting firms continued to pass on rising
April 23, 2024
A North Korean delegation led by the cabinet minister for international trade is visiting Iran, the North's official media said on Wednesday in a rare public report of an exchange
April 23, 2024
Dams holding vast amounts of uranium mine tailings above the fertile Fergana valley in Central Asia are unstable, threatening a possible Chernobyl-scale nuclear
April 23, 2024
JPMorgan Chase & Co appoints Lu Fang to chair the board of its China securities arm, replacing former chair Park Pu, according to a company memo reviewed by Reuters
April 23, 2024
A senior Chinese central bank official suggested on Tuesday that the bank's buying and selling of treasury bonds in the secondary market could be used for liquidity management and
April 23, 2024Two Malaysian navy helicopters collided in mid-air during a rehearsal for a naval parade on Tuesday, killing all 10 crew members aboard, the navy said in a statement.
May 08, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist party have begun attacking opposition rivals, saying they favour minority Muslims, in
May 07, 2024
Thailand's cabinet on Tuesday approved a plan to select a new slate of senators who will no longer be allowed to vote on who becomes prime minister, removing what has effectively
April 23, 2024
Taiwan's quake-hit eastern county of Hualien was rattled by more than 200 aftershocks late on Monday and early on Tuesday, but only minor damage was reported and no casualties and
April 22, 2024
Chinese regulators are inspecting the use of a cross-border mechanism to invest in debt-laden local governments' offshore bonds, two sources said, indicating a ramping
May 08, 2024
Japanese electric motor maker Nidec on Tuesday posted an unexpected operating loss for the January to March quarter, hit by the costs of restructuring steps taken to deal with fierce
May 07, 2024
The Bank of Japan will raise interest rates again if trend inflation accelerates toward its 2% target as expected, governor Kazuo Ueda said, keeping alive market
May 07, 2024
Thailand's 500 billion baht ($13.51 billion) "digital wallet" stimulus policy gained cabinet approval on Tuesday, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said, clearing another hurdle for
May 07, 2024
Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said last week's meeting with his U.S. and South Korean counterparts has laid the groundwork for Tokyo to
May 07, 2024
Major North Korean hacking groups have mounted "all-out" cyber attacks against South Korean defence companies for more than a year, breaching the firms' internal networks
May 07, 2024
Japanese authorities could intervene in the currency market any time as recent yen declines are excessive and out of line with fundamentals, ruling party
May 07, 2024
China will revise its statistics law in a bid to fight persistent data fraud, the state-run Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday, amid scepticism about the reliability of data in the
April 23, 2024Asia was the world's most disaster-hit region by climate related hazards last year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said, with floods and storms causing the highest
May 07, 2024
India's business activity expanded at its fastest pace in nearly 14 years this month thanks to robust demand, according to a survey released on Tuesday that also
May 07, 2024
Indonesia President Joko Widodo and his son, incoming vice president Gibran Rakabuming Raka, are no longer members of the country's largest party after they
May 07, 2024
A key measure of Japan's trend inflation slowed to 1.3% in March, marking the smallest year-on-year increase in 11 months, data showed on Tuesday.
May 07, 2024
Vietnam's gross domestic product is seen growing 5.5% this year, the World Bank said on Tuesday, faster than an expansion of 5.05% last year.
May 07, 2024
Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin on Tuesday said he had asked the country's four largest lenders to lower interest rates to help small businesses and the economy.
April 23, 2024
The Bank of Japan is expected to project inflation will stay around its 2% target for the next three years in new forecasts due on Friday, signalling
May 07, 2024
South Korea's economy likely grew 0.6% last quarter, maintaining the same pace of expansion as in the previous three months, as improving exports
May 07, 2024
Japan's factory activity contracted but approached the break-even point in April, a business survey showed on Tuesday, suggesting the key sector is finally picking up after months of
April 22, 2024
More than 80 earthquakes, the strongest of 6.3 magnitude, struck Taiwan's east coast starting Monday night and into the early hours of Tuesday and some caused shaking of buildings in
April 22, 2024
Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu's party earned a landslide victory in parliamentary elections, local media reported on Monday, a result set to move the Indian Ocean
May 07, 2024
A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan's eastern county of Hualien on Tuesday, the island's weather administration said, with no immediate reports of damage.
April 22, 2024The yen weakened on Monday to its weakest levels against the dollar since June 1990, with markets alert to any signs of intervention from the Japanese authorities to prop up the yen.
May 07, 2024
The United States said on Tuesday it was watching events in ally South Korea with "grave concern" after South Korean
December 03, 2024
As companies around the country roll out plans to honor May as Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a new report out Wednesday suggests members of those communities are paying more attention than ever to representation
May 01, 2024Floods swamped cities in southern China's densely populated Pearl River Delta following record-breaking rains, sparking worries
May 07, 2024
An Indonesian court on Monday rejected challenges from both losing candidates seeking a re-run of February's presidential election and the
May 07, 2024
Thailand's central bank, under pressure from the government to cut interest rates, could adjust monetary policy if the outlook
May 07, 2024
North Korea fired "several" short-range ballistic missiles on Monday toward the sea off its east coast, South Korea's military said, drawing a swift condemnation from
May 07, 2024
Indonesia reported a $4.47 billion trade surplus in March, data from the statistics bureau showed on Monday, larger than a forecast surplus of $1.13 billion in a Reuters poll as
May 07, 2024
Sri Lanka's consumer price inflation rate dropped to 2.5% in March from 5.1% in February, official data showed on Monday, as the impact of a higher sales tax needed to meet targets
May 07, 2024
China's fiscal revenue in the first quarter fell 2.3% from a year earlier, as some special factors including previous tax cut policies weighed, the finance ministry said on Monday.
May 07, 2024
China expressed strong opposition on Monday to a ritual offering made by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a controversial shrine in Tokyo that China and South Korea view as
May 07, 2024
Chinese state fund Central Huijin Investment bought blue-chips worth at least $41 billion in the first quarter in a bid to shore up the sliding stock market, funds' latest
May 07, 2024
Police in Vietnam have arrested Pham Thai Ha, an assistant of the country's National Assembly chairman, on an accusation of power abuse, the Ministry of Public Security said on
April 22, 2024On a visit to China this week, EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski said his focus will be on increasing agri-food exports to the world's second largest
April 22, 2024
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland The relief rally spreading through Asian markets is set to sweep into Europe at the open, with the FTSE in particular set for
April 22, 2024
Vietnam is readying the launch next week of a new stocks trading system that would speed up settlement of transactions, as part of reforms
April 22, 2024
China remains committed to resolving maritime disputes with other countries through dialogue but will not allow itself to be "abused," a top military official
April 22, 2024
Malaysia plans to build Southeast Asia's largest integrated circuit design park and will offer incentives including tax breaks, subsidies and visa exemption fees to attract
April 22, 2024
China's exports of gallium and germanium products in March declined from year-ago levels, customs data showed on Saturday, underlining the impact of export controls in place since
April 20, 2024
Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD said on Monday its electric pickup truck will be called BYD Shark and will feature a plug-in hybrid system called Dual Mode Off-Road (DMO),
April 22, 2024
The Maldives' ruling party is set to win a two-thirds majority in Sunday's parliamentary election, local media said, a result likely to push the Indian Ocean island
April 21, 2024
Chinese ambassador to Canada, Cong Peiwu, who has served since 2019, has left his post and returned to China, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday, with the
April 21, 2024
Major rivers, waterways and reservoirs in China's Guangdong province are threatening to unleash dangerous floods, forcing the government on Sunday to
April 21, 2024
Unknown gunmen killed two customs officers in western Pakistan, officials said on Sunday, following the killing of five other customs officials in
April 21, 2024Corporate Japan is starting to wonder if the weak yen has become too much of a good thing.
May 16, 2024
National Australia Bank posted a double-digit drop in first-half earnings on Thursday but talked up the strength of the economy and said a margin-
May 16, 2024
The yen soared against the U.S dollar late on Wednesday, as market participants suspected Japan's monetary
May 16, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets. Asia gets back up toward full speed on Thursday after many markets were closed for the May Day holiday, with the U.S.
May 16, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's shocking late-night declaration of martial law brought years of clashes with domestic opponents, the media and even his own
December 03, 2024
Hundreds residents of Indonesia's Tagulandang island were waiting at the island's port to be evacuated on Wednesday, footage from National Search and Rescue Agency showed, while
May 16, 2024
- A majority of Americans believe that China uses TikTok to shape U.S. public opinion, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted as
May 16, 2024
Estee Lauder lowered its annual organic sales estimate on persistent softness in mainland China's prestige beauty space, even as a demand rebound for its pricey
May 16, 2024
Eastern India experienced its hottest April on record as a heatwave scorched parts of the country amid a general election, killing at least nine people, and the
May 16, 2024
By Pratima Desai and Siyi Liu LONDON/BEIJING - China's copper producers are planning to export up to 100,000 metric tons of metal, the largest volume in 12 years, aiming to cool a rally that has
May 16, 2024
Solomon Islands lawmakers will select a new prime minister in a secret ballot on Thursday, choosing between foreign minister Jeremiah Manele and opposition leader Matthew
May 16, 2024
The Philippines on Wednesday accused China's coast guard of elevating tensions in the South China Sea after two vessels suffered damage from water cannon use by Beijing, an official
May 01, 2024
Taiwan is on alert for China to carry out military exercises after the inauguration of President-elect Lai Ching-te this month, the island's top security official
May 16, 2024
New Zealand’s government is continuing "information gathering discussions" on future cooperation with the AUKUS security pact but is "a long way" from being able
May 16, 2024
Dozens of schools in India's national capital region were evacuated on Wednesday after they received a bomb threat by email, police said, adding that "nothing objectionable" was
May 01, 2024Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is examining the possibility of introducing measures to provide tax breaks for companies converting foreign profits
May 16, 2024
South Korea has held talks about joining part of the AUKUS defence deal between the U.S., Britain and Australia, Defence Minister Shin Won-sik said on Wednesday,
May 16, 2024
Malaysia will boost salaries for civil servants by more than 13% from December, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Wednesday, amid rising prices, a weak ringgit currency,
May 16, 2024
Vietnam's parliament is set to meet on Thursday afternoon to discuss personnel issues, the office of the country's lawmaking body said on Wednesday, five days after its chairman,
May 16, 2024
China on Wednesday launched sea trials for the Fujian, its third and most advanced aircraft carrier, state media reported.
May 01, 2024Retired diplomat Maris Sangiampongsa has been endorsed as the country's new foreign minister by Thailand's king, the official Royal Gazette said on Wednesday.
May 01, 2024South Korea's exports rose for a seventh straight month in April, trade data showed on Wednesday, as strong demand for chips continued to lead growth while automobile sales and U.S.
May 15, 2024
Japan's factory activity shrank at a slower pace in April as declines in output and new orders eased, a private-sector survey showed on Wednesday.
May 15, 2024
Solomon Islands lawmakers have elected former Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele as prime minister in a development that suggests the South Pacific island nation will maintain close ties with China
May 02, 2024
Misinformation about India's election is surging online as the world's most populous country votes
May 02, 2024
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company will invest $2.2 billion over the next four years in new cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Malaysia
May 02, 2024
Cambodia's Defense Ministry says a huge explosion at a military base in the southwest that killed 20 soldiers and injured many others was an accident caused by a “technical issue” from the old and degraded ammunition that was being moved
May 02, 2024
Asian shares are mostly higher ahead of a report on the U.S. jobs market
May 02, 2024
The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China has climbed to 48 as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area
May 02, 2024
A festival celebrating Asian American literary works that was suddenly canceled last year by the Smithsonian Institution is getting resurrected
May 02, 2024President Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants, lumping the two with adversaries China and Russia as he tried to explain the four countries’ economic circumstances and contrasted them with the U.S. on immigration
May 02, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
May 17, 2024
Pakistan will push back the deadline for companies to express interest in buying national carrier Pakistan International Airlines to May 18, the country's privatisation minister
May 17, 2024
The yen gained on Thursday, following a sudden rally late on Wednesday that traders and analysts attributed to intervention by Japanese authorities, while the
May 17, 2024
South Korea's National Assembly voted on Thursday to approve a bill backed by the ruling and opposition parties to launch a fresh investigation into a
May 16, 2024
U.S. law firm Mayer Brown said on Thursday that it plans to separate from its current Hong Kong operations, as many international law firms rethink or reduce their presence
May 17, 2024
Travel by rail and car across China surged on
May 16, 2024
Officials in a Japanese town are erecting a 2.5-meter (8.2 ft) high barrier to block a view of Mount Fuji and obstruct a photo spot that has been
May 16, 2024
Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp reported net profit for the fiscal year ended in March fell 31.7% from a year earlier to 386.4 billion yen ($2.5 billion), missing estimates, as
May 16, 2024
Vietnam's legislature approved on Thursday the resignation of its chairman Vuong Dinh Hue, it said in a statement, the latest top official to
May 16, 2024
India on Thursday deported the first group of Myanmar refugees who had sought shelter after a 2021 military coup, a top state minister said, following
May 16, 2024
Taiwan's defence ministry on Thursday said that China had carried out a "joint combat readiness patrol" near the island for the second time in a week.
May 16, 2024
It will be hard for Taiwan to attend this year's World Health Organization annual assembly, and it hopes more countries will support its presence, the island's
May 16, 2024
The death toll from the collapse of an expressway section in China's Guangdong province that caused vehicles to tumble down a slope has risen to 48, with rescue work hampered by mudslides,
May 02, 2024Japanese officials may have spent some 3.66 trillion yen ($23.59 billion) on Wednesday in the latest attempt to pull the yen back from near 34-year lows, Bank of
May 16, 2024
Hong Kong's economic grew 2.7% in the first quarter on the year, official advance estimates showed on Thursday, driven by an increase in visitor arrivals and private consumption.
May 16, 2024
The Taliban has agreed with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to build a logistics hub in western Afghanistan aimed at making the war-torn
May 16, 2024
A lower turnout so far in India’s long general election has rattled Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign managers, raising into question whether
May 16, 2024
Thirteen women from the Philippines have been convicted on human trafficking-related charges for acting as surrogates in Cambodia for a ring selling babies to foreigners for cash
December 03, 2024
South Korea's foreign ministry on Thursday raised the terrorism alert level for five diplomatic offices in the region citing intelligence that North Korea may attempt
May 16, 2024
Short bets on most Asian currencies firmed to touch multi-month highs as growing expectations of U.S. interest rates staying higher for longer dampened appetite for
May 16, 2024
South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS), manager of the world's third-largest public pension fund, will allocate 65% of its assets in risky assets under new long-term asset
May 02, 2024Thailand's government plans to increase the daily minimum wage to 400 baht ($10.84) from October, a spokesperson said on Thursday, a policy that could help lift consumption in
May 16, 2024
The yen surged against the dollar on what traders suspect was another round of intervention by Japanese authorities to stem the currency's sharp
May 16, 2024
Indonesia's annual inflation rate cooled slightly in April as pressure from some food prices eased as the harvest season began, the
May 16, 2024
South Korea's financial regulator on Thursday proposed detailed guidelines for companies if they choose to participate in the government's reform programme aimed at enhancing
May 16, 2024
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) kept its base rate charged through the overnight discount window unchanged at 5.75% on Thursday, tracking a decision by the U.S.
May 16, 2024
The Philippines summoned a Chinese diplomat on Thursday to protest Beijing's use of water cannon against Filipino vessels at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, describing it
May 02, 2024
Many Bank of Japan board members agreed the country's long-term interest rates should be set by markets, with some saying the central bank should at some point slow
May 16, 2024
South Korea's factory activity contracted again in April, but manufacturers' optimism climbed to the highest level in nearly two years as output and orders managed to
May 16, 2024
President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that "xenophobia" from China to Japan and India is hobbling their growth, as he argued that migration has been good for
May 16, 2024
In 2018, the censors who oversee Chinese media issued a directive to the nation’s entertainment industry
May 03, 2024
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirmed reports on Saturday that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned drug before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics but it accepted the country's
July 02, 2024
The Chinese Navy on Sunday kicked off a biennial meeting of top foreign naval officials in the port city of Qingdao, in a show of military diplomacy that will
May 06, 2024
A North Korean delegation led by a high-ranking agricultural official is visiting Russia, the North's official KCNA news agency said on Sunday, in the latest exchange by Moscow and
May 06, 2024
Fighting raged at Myanmar's eastern frontier with Thailand on Saturday, both governments said, forcing 3,000 civilians to flee as rebels fought to flush out Myanmar junta troops holed up
April 20, 2024
The first of India's almost one billion voters cast ballots on Friday in the country's multi-day election, as
May 06, 2024
North Korea conducted a cruise missile warhead test and test launch of its new anti-aircraft missile in the West Sea of Korea on Friday, the North's KCNA news agency said on Saturday.
April 19, 2024South Korea's government announced a compromise in its medical reform plans on Friday in a bid to end a two-month walkout by doctors, and also said President Yoon Suk
May 06, 2024
Five Japanese nationals in Pakistan escaped when a suicide bomber detonated their device on Friday, and police shot dead a gunman accompanying the bomber,
May 05, 2024
North Korea has released a new song praising leader Kim Jong Un for being a "friendly father" and a "great leader", in a move that appears to be part of a propaganda drive to enhance
May 07, 2024
The Bank of Japan will raise interest rates again in 2024, according to two-thirds of economists polled by Reuters, but there was no clear consensus on when
May 04, 2024
Kazakhstan braced on Friday for levels on the Ural River to rise sharply, something that could threaten two of its western regions and key oil infrastructure, while
May 04, 2024
Taiwan said on Friday China's decision to open new air routes that run close to two Taiwanese-controlled islands was a flight safety risk taken
May 04, 2024
Nissan Motor slashed its annual operating profit estimate by 14.5% on Friday, citing lower-than-expected vehicle sales and other factors.
May 03, 2024
China is widely expected to leave benchmark lending rates unchanged on Monday, a Reuters survey showed, as encouraging first quarter economic data reduces the urgency for further
May 03, 2024
China's vaccine developers stuck with unused mRNA COVID shots and idle manufacturing plants are pursuing new targets for the novel messenger RNA
April 19, 2024
Thousands of Muslims gathered in mosques across Sydney for regular prayers on Friday despite concerns about retaliatory attacks after police charged a
May 07, 2024
Cryptocurrencies fell heavily and bitcoin broke below $60,000 on Friday in a rush out of risky assets following reports of an Israeli missile strike on Iran.
May 03, 2024
Pakistan hopes to agree the contours of a new International Monetary Fund loan in May, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb told Reuters, and has kicked off
May 03, 2024
South Korea's finance ministry said on Friday that authorities would take immediate and decisive action if it became necessary to respond to excessive volatility in the foreign
May 03, 2024
Vietnam's central bank said on Friday it had continued providing support to Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SCB), which it put under special supervision in October 2022 after a
May 03, 2024
Indonesia's trade surplus is estimated to have widened in March as imports were seen easing from a seasonally high demand in the prior month, a Reuters poll showed on Friday.
May 03, 2024
South Korea's LG Electronics has raised $800 million through a dollar bond deal, according to a term sheet reviewed by Reuters.
May 03, 2024
The U.S. fund in a buyout battle for a niche market Japanese printer company said it would consider selling to rival bidder Brother Industries if it
May 03, 2024India has been holding the world's biggest election since April 19, with nearly 1 billion people eligible to vote.
June 14, 2024
Nearly 1 billion Indians will be eligible to vote in the world's biggest election starting this month.
May 03, 2024
India, with nearly a billion eligible voters, set off on the world's largest electoral exercise on Friday.
May 03, 2024
Any national-security review of the deal for Japan's Nippon Steel to acquire U.S.
May 03, 2024
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape said on Friday he looked forward to visits by China's foreign minister and Australia's prime minister in the coming days that
May 03, 2024
The International Monetary Fund urged Asian central banks on Thursday to focus on domestic inflation and avoid tying their policy decisions too closely to
May 03, 2024
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Thursday the central bank may raise interest rates again if the yen's declines significantly push up inflation,
May 03, 2024
Japan appears to have bought some time and respite for a tumbling yen through its latest bursts of suspected , yet it has also set itself up for a
May 18, 2024
Damage to Philippine vessels and injuries to their crew in the South China Sea is "irresponsible behaviour" in disregard of international law, U.S.
May 18, 2024
Hundreds of people protesting Israel's war in Gaza rallied at one of Australia's top universities on Friday demanding it divest from companies with ties to Israel,
May 19, 2024
Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi will contest the general election from the family bastion in the north, his Congress party
May 03, 2024
Taiwan's defence ministry said on Friday it had detected a renewed incursion by Chinese military aircraft across the sensitive Taiwan Strait, as China reported its
May 03, 2024Global hedge funds that use an equities long-short strategy are growing increasingly bullish on China, evidenced by the heavy pick-up in their purchases of Hong
May 18, 2024
Earthquake warning smartphone apps have surged in popularity in Taiwan due to high demand from people eager to get a few extra seconds to take cover after
May 19, 2024
Ruins of a centuries-old town have emerged at a dam parched by drought in northern Philippines, giving residents a rare
May 03, 2024
Australia's central bank will hold its key policy rate at 4.35% for a fourth straight meeting on Tuesday and at least until end-September, according to a
May 18, 2024
New Zealand's foreign minister on Friday described the country's relationship with China as "complex," and called out the hardening rhetoric across the Taiwan
May 17, 2024
Cambodia’s Supreme Court has upheld the two-year prison sentence of a labor union leader who led a long-running strike against the country’s biggest casino
May 03, 2024
The chief of staff of a Chinese businessman sought by the government of China has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges weeks before her boss goes to trial in New York in a fraud case
May 03, 2024South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem claims in a new book to have met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during her time in Congress
May 03, 2024
Canadian police on Friday arrested and charged three Indian men with the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year and said
May 03, 2024
The chief of staff to exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiring with him to carry out a massive scheme that defrauded thousands of
July 02, 2024
China on Friday launched an uncrewed spacecraft on a nearly two-month mission to retrieve rocks and soil from the far side of the moon, the first
May 20, 2024
Elon Musk's carmaker Tesla has sued an Indian battery maker for infringing its trademark by using the brand name "Tesla Power" to promote its
May 20, 2024
Global equity funds experienced renewed interest from investors in the seven days through May 1, buoyed by a surge in inflows to Asia amid optimism about an economic recovery in the region
July 02, 2024
The politician daughter of Thailand's influential former premier Thaksin Shinawatra on Friday said the central bank's independence was an "obstacle" in resolving economic problems,
May 19, 2024
Top Indian Olympic wrestlers have criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party for fielding the son of their former federation chief in
May 19, 2024
China told the top U.N. court on Tuesday that existing U.N. treaties should provide the basis for its advisory opinion on states' legal obligations to fight global warming and
December 03, 2024
The Indonesian government will permanently relocate almost 10,000 residents after a series of explosive eruptions of the Ruang volcano has raised concerns about the dangers of
July 02, 2024
Hong Kong's March retail sales fell 7% from a year earlier, partly due to a high base of comparison for visitor spending and the Easter holidays, government data showed on Friday
May 19, 2024
A bus veered into a ravine in Pakistan's far north early on Friday, a local government spokesman said, killing 20 passengers, while 21 injured were rescued and
May 03, 2024A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck the northern Philippines on Wednesday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said, as authorities warned of damage and aftershocks from
December 03, 2024A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
December 03, 2024
Oil prices rose more than 2% on Tuesday as Israel threatened to attack the Lebanese state if its truce with Hezbollah collapses, and as investors positioned for OPEC
December 03, 2024
Officials say 14 people are dead after a flood and landslide hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island
May 04, 2024
An Afghan diplomat in India who was appointed before the Taliban seized power in 2021 and says she was the only woman in the country’s diplomatic service has resigned
May 04, 2024An asteroid lit up the sky in Russia's remote far eastern region of Yakutia early on Wednesday, producing a fireball before likely burning up in the atmosphere, officials and scientists
December 03, 2024
China's Ping An Insurance Group Co the biggest Asian investor in HSBC PLC did not support reappointing chief executive Noel Quinn as a director to the banks board at the
May 21, 2024
Martial law reversed in South Korea after president’s surprise decree sent shockwaves
December 03, 2024
Police in Vietnam have arrested the former head of the government office, Mai Tien Dung, on suspicion of abuse of power, the Ministry of Public Security said on Saturday, amid a
May 04, 2024A former U.S. ambassador appointed by Donald Trump said on Saturday he believed the former president would again support Taiwan if he wins back the White House.
May 20, 2024
President Xi Jinping lauded China's ties with France as an international model on Sunday as he arrived in Paris for a rare visit against a backdrop of
May 04, 2024
Manipulated videos are taking centre stage as campaigning heats up in India's election, with fake clips involving
May 05, 2024
Australian police said on Sunday they had shot dead a boy after he stabbed a man in Western Australia's capital Perth, in an attack authorities said indicated terrorism.
May 05, 2024An International Monetary Fund mission is expected to visit Pakistan this month to discuss a new programme, the lender said on Sunday ahead of Islamabad beginning
May 20, 2024
Schools in Bangladesh reopened on Sunday and classes were continuing over the weekend after a searing heatwave a week ago that suspended lessons as the country baked in
July 02, 2024
A court in Bangladesh has rescheduled a bail hearing for a prominent Hindu leader who was detained after leading large rallies in the Muslim-majority country demanding better security for minority groups
December 03, 2024A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
May 20, 2024
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Monday the Philippines would not use water cannons or any offensive weapons in the South China Sea, and the last thing it wanted was to raise
May 21, 2024
China's services activity expansion slowed a touch amid rising costs, but growth in new orders accelerated and business sentiment rose solidly in a boost to hopes of a sustained
May 20, 2024
South Korea's market watchdog said on Monday it had found breaches of short-selling rules by seven more banks in the domestic stock market as part of a full-scale investigation into
May 06, 2024For the first time since leader Kim Jong Un took power in 2011, North Koreans were asked to take loyalty oaths on his birthday, a South Korean research
May 20, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron has put trade disputes and Ukraine-related diplomatic efforts at the top of the agenda for talks with visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping
May 06, 2024
Asian markets are mostly higher, although Chinese shares faltered
May 06, 2024
Authorities say a 16-year-old boy who was shot dead by police after stabbing a man in western Australia had been in a deradicalization program for two years but had no ties to an alleged network of teen extremists in Sydney
May 06, 2024
Cost-conscious Chinese tourists have replaced many of the cash-rich mainland travellers who once flocked to Hong Kong, with some only interested in
May 06, 2024
U.S. and Philippine armed forces fired missiles and artillery to thwart a simulated invasion in the Philippines' northern waters facing Taiwan on
July 02, 2024
Indonesia's economic growth in the first quarter beat expectations, buoyed by high public spending for the country's elections, but
May 20, 2024
Domestic travellers spent 166.9 billion yuan ($23.13 billion) during one of China's longest breaks, the May Day holiday, a rise of 13.5% from pre-
May 21, 2024
China's average daily home sales during the major May Day public holiday sank 47% from a year earlier, and were down around 30% from pre-pandemic levels in 2019 for the same
May 21, 2024
Workers at Australian state-owned submarine builder ASC Ltd began on Monday a campaign of strikes for higher wages that could disrupt maintenance for Australia's
May 06, 2024China's National Health Commission said it was investigating a hospital in the southwest megacity of Chongqing for its alleged involvement in surrogacy, which is illegal in China
July 02, 2024
Taiwan is grateful for continued U.S. security assistance but must invest in building its own "strengths" first and show the world its support for the island is worth it, Vice
May 21, 2024
A Chinese fighter jet endangered an Australian military helicopter during an "unsafe" and "unacceptable" confrontation over the Yellow Sea, Australia said on Monday.
May 21, 2024
Chinese provinces are urging companies to offer women flexible job roles called "Mama's Posts" that make it easier to balance work and childcare, the official Xinhua news agency
May 21, 2024
China's premium electric vehicle maker Nio is on track to unveil a new model under a mass-market brand by the end of this month and a second smaller EV to be sold
May 21, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said he does not oppose Islam or Muslims and wants the community to think about their future growth as they vote in an
May 21, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
May 21, 2024
South Korea's foreign exchange reserves dropped in April by the biggest amount in 19 months as authorities intervened in the currency market to curb weakness in the won currency.
May 21, 2024
Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) will leave its key interest rate at 3.00% and keep it unchanged at least until 2026, despite a weakening currency and a
May 21, 2024
U.S. Marines and their Filipino counterparts have staged joint combat drills on the Philippines’ northernmost island along the strategic Bashi Channel off southern Taiwan, a flashpoint in the Washington-Beijing military rivalry
May 06, 2024
Prime Minister Narendra Modi voted early on Tuesday as India held the third phase of a massive general election, when seats in
July 02, 2024
War veterans, party leaders and diplomats gathered in Vietnam's Dien Bien Phu province on Tuesday for an event to mark the 70th anniversary of the country's victory over French
May 07, 2024China said on Tuesday its military took steps to warn and alert an Australian aircraft after Australia blamed a Chinese fighter jet for endangering one of its military
July 02, 2024
Japanese service sector activity grew at the fastest pace in eight months in April thanks to solid business and consumer spending, a private survey showed on Tuesday, results that
May 21, 2024
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has exercised near-total control over Indian politics since coming to power 10 years ago, with one exception: He has failed to win over the country’s wealthier southern region
May 07, 2024
Millions of Indians across 93 constituencies are voting as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has mounted an increasingly shrill election campaign, ramping up polarizing rhetoric against Muslims
May 07, 2024
China is investigating a former senior executive of China National Offshore Oil Company, or CNOOC, for suspected "serious disciplinary violations", the country's anti-graft
May 21, 2024
Asian shares are mixed after U.S. stocks held relatively steady on Wall Street
May 07, 2024
A knife attack at a hospital in southwestern China has killed two people and injured 21 others
May 07, 2024The Seoul Queer Culture Festival will take place in the capital's streets this year, organisers of South Korea's annual LGBTQ gathering said on Tuesday, after the city
May 07, 2024
The United States sees Iran's capacity to move its oil as reliant on service providers based in Malaysia, with oil being transferred near Singapore and throughout
May 21, 2024
Cambodia plans to cut shipping through Vietnamese ports by 70% as a result of a $1.7 billion China-funded upgrade of a canal
May 07, 2024BEIJING (REUTERS) - China lifted the risk alert warning on bird flu in Serbia, the General Administration of Customs announced on Tuesday.
May 21, 2024
China electric vehicle maker Nio has struck a deal with larger rival BYD to source batteries for an EV brand priced at a lower range that aims to compete with Tesla, three sources
May 21, 2024
Pakistan's military said on Tuesday that a suicide bomb attack that killed five Chinese engineers was planned in neighbouring Afghanistan, and that the bomber was
May 07, 2024Chinese President Xi Jinping left France on Tuesday after a two-day trip during which he offered no major concessions
July 02, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday called on China to play a bigger role in helping poor countries with their debt burdens and said that he raised the issue with Chinese
May 21, 2024
Germany sent two warships to the Indo-Pacific region on Tuesday in a bid to strengthen its military presence in the region amid rising tensions between China and Taiwan and over the
May 21, 2024
U.S. automaker Tesla sold 62,167 China-made electric vehicles in April, down 18% from a year earlier, lagging the broader market's surge, China Passenger Car Association (CPCA)
May 22, 2024
An Indian city court extended on Tuesday the pre-trial detention of opposition leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal until May 20, legal news website
May 21, 2024
Two people were killed and 21 wounded in a knife attack at a hospital in southwest China's Yunnan province on Tuesday, media reported, citing police.
May 07, 2024The Philippines' largest telecommunications group PLDT is in talks to sell up to 49% of its data centre business to Japan's
May 21, 2024
In the jungles of southeastern Myanmar's Dawna Hills, rebels from an armed ethnic group are fighting to hold back columns of reinforcements sent by the country's ruling junta to try to
May 21, 2024
Cambodia's former Prime Minister Hun Sen asked Myanmar's ruling general on Tuesday to allow him to speak to detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on a video call, a request
May 21, 2024
China's COMAC is expanding production facilities for its homegrown C919 jets in Shanghai, according to one of the project contractors, as the state-owned planemaker ramps up
May 21, 2024
The Afghan Taliban said on Tuesday they have quelled protests in a northern province over security forces' attempts to eradicate opium poppy cultivation which generates income for
May 22, 2024
Nissan is committed to staying in China but the company must change its strategy in the country, Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida told a business conference hosted by the Financial Times in
May 22, 2024
A massive tree fell across one of Kuala Lumpur's busiest roads on Tuesday, killing a man, hurting two others, disrupting monorail services and damaging more than a dozen cars,
May 22, 2024
China and Serbia on Wednesday agreed to follow a "shared future" as President Xi Jinping visited the Balkan country as part of his bid to
July 02, 2024
India's Election Commission directed social media platform X on Tuesday to take down a video post by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party after an opposition complaint that it
May 22, 2024
Some Chinese carmakers are looking to set up manufacturing and assembly plants in Europe as they aim to ramp up sales of lower-cost cars in the region to rival their European competitors
May 25, 2024
Chinese automaker Geely and Israeli auto safety technology startup Foretellix formed a strategic partnership to accelerate safe large-scale development of self-driving vehicles,
May 22, 2024
Two Chinese companies and JPMorgan have become the latest banking groups to cut jobs in China as a slow recovery in listing and dealmaking activities force them to ramp up cost
May 22, 2024
US Marines and Philippine forces are taking part in joint military exercises just 100 miles off the southern tip of Taiwan.
May 07, 2024
The Chinese state-owned company at the center of a dispute over operations of a megaport it is building on Peru's Pacific coast insisted on Tuesday on terms agreed
May 22, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
May 22, 2024
North Korea says Kim Ki Nam, the propaganda chief who helped build personality cults around the country’s three dynastic leaders, has died at 94
May 08, 2024
U.S. and Philippine forces, backed by an Australian air force surveillance aircraft, have unleashed a barrage of high-precision rockets, artillery fire and airstrikes and sank a mock enemy ship as part of largescale war drills in and near the disputed South China Sea that have antagonized Beijing
May 08, 2024
The Bank of Japan may take monetary policy action if yen falls affect prices significantly, governor Kazuo Ueda said on Wednesday, offering the
May 22, 2024
Global private equity investors and asset managers are readying for billions of dollars worth of M&A and
May 22, 2024
Perpetual said on Wednesday that buyout giant KKR & Co would acquire its wealth management and corporate trust businesses for A$2.18 billion ($1.43 billion), sending the Australian
May 22, 2024
Taiwan's military is prepared for any moves China may make around the time President-elect Lai Ching-te takes office later this month, the island's deputy defence minister said on
May 22, 2024
Elon Musk proposed testing Tesla's advanced driver-assistance package in China by deploying it in robotaxis, during his recent visit to the country, the state-backed China Daily
May 22, 2024
After three decades selling homemade buns on the streets of the Chinese city of Xian, 67-year-old Hu Dexi would have
May 22, 2024
Chinese regulators are scrutinising old business deals and even the personal bank accounts of senior executives as they ramp up inspections of IPO hopefuls to slow the
May 22, 2024
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Wednesday the central bank may take monetary policy action if yen moves have a big impact on inflation, escalating his
May 22, 2024
Kim Ki Nam, one of the longest-serving North Korean officials who served all three generations of its leaders cementing their political legitimacy and heading the
July 02, 2024
An appeals court has granted the Hong Kong government’s request to ban a protest song, overturning an earlier ruling and deepening concerns over the erosion of freedoms in the city
May 08, 2024
Asian shares are mixed after Wall Street’s lull stretched into a second day
May 08, 2024
A Singapore Air Force F-16 plane crashed at Tengah Air Base on Wednesday at 12:35 p.m. (0435 GMT), Singapore's defence ministry said on Wednesday.
May 08, 2024Cash-strapped China Vanke is selling a large Shenzhen land plot at a reserve price of 2.24 billion yuan ($310 million) via auction, the developer's latest move to raise funds to
May 22, 2024
Toyota Motor forecast a 20% profit decline in the current financial year on Wednesday, citing looming investment in both its suppliers and strategy after it
July 02, 2024
A court in Pakistan granted a request on Wednesday by the wife of former Prime Minister Imran Khan to be moved to jail, her lawyer said, instead of the house
May 22, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has drawn up new targets to boost farmer incomes as he seeks to secure his legacy of
May 22, 2024
Thailand's economy is expected to grow 2.2% to 2.7% this year, down from a previous forecast of 2.8% to 3.3% due to a slow export recovery, a leading joint business group said on
May 22, 2024
China's exports likely returned to growth in April after contracting sharply in March, but the expansion is expected to be modest as factory owners wrestle with weak
May 22, 2024
The Taliban defence ministry on Wednesday rejected Pakistan's allegations that Afghans were involved in an attack on Chinese engineers, as ties between the neighbouring nations sour
May 08, 2024Thailand will re-list cannabis as a narcotic by year-end, its prime minister said on Tuesday, in a stunning U-turn just two years after
July 02, 2024
The president of South Korea has lifted the martial law he imposed on the country, bending to political pressure after a tense night in which troops surrounded parliament and lawmakers voted to reject military rule
December 03, 2024
Hong Kong's Court of Appeal on Wednesday granted an application by the government to ban a protest anthem called "Glory to Hong Kong", overturning a lower court
May 22, 2024
Taiwan's exports rose less than expected in April, hurt by weak demand from China although robust demand for artificial intelligence-related products had shipments to the United
May 22, 2024
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Wednesday the central bank will raise interest rates if trend inflation accelerates in line with the bank's current projections.
May 22, 2024
An emergency text message alerting residents of a rural South Korean town to watch out for 70 ferocious dogs on the loose had to be quickly withdrawn after it turned out only three
May 08, 2024Cambodia’s Defense Ministry is insisting that the months-long presence of two Chinese warships at a strategically important naval base that is being expanded with funding from Beijing does not constitute a permanent deployment of the Chinese military in the country
May 08, 2024
Oil giant Shell said on Wednesday that it has agreed to sell its Bukom refinery in Singapore - one of the world's largest oil refining and trading centres - to a
May 22, 2024
The prime minister of Thailand says he wants to outlaw the cannabis over concerns the lack of regulation had made it available to children and increased crimes
May 08, 2024
The satellite unit of Elon Musk's SpaceX has secured a permit to operate in Indonesia, the communications minister told Reuters on Wednesday.
May 22, 2024
Sri Lanka's security forces abducted men and women from the ethnic Tamil minority and tortured them in custody long after the end of a bloody civil war in the
May 08, 2024Mercedes-Benz Chief Executive Ola Kaellenius on Wednesday spoke against imposing restrictions on trade with China, stressing that the country remains the group's most important
May 22, 2024
Singapore's defence ministry said it was temporarily suspending training for its F-16 aircraft fleet after an F-16 crashed during a routine training on Wednesday.
May 08, 2024China has approved the safety of gene-edited wheat for the first time as Beijing cautiously moves forward with commercial growing of genetically modified food crops.
May 22, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and election rival Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi traded barbs about campaign funding on Wednesday, with both sides
May 22, 2024
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Wednesday she expects rules to implement U.S. outbound investment restrictions on China will be completed by the end of
May 22, 2024
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Wall Street stocks are grinding out new records as U.S. growth continues to outperform, interest rate cut optimism has been rekindled
December 03, 2024
The Philippines' military chief accused China of a "malign influence effort" on Wednesday, after a local newspaper reported a Filipino vice admiral had made a deal with Beijing to
May 22, 2024
Three Taliban security personnel were killed when a motorcycle carrying an explosive device blew up near a military vehicle in northern Afghanistan being used
May 08, 2024North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has expressed "firm support and solidarity" for Russia in his congratulatory message to Russian President Vladimir Putin over Victory Day, which marks
May 22, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
May 22, 2024
U.S. officials confronted the Chinese government in Beijing last month about a sweeping cyber espionage campaign through which Chinese hackers have broken in
May 22, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol conceded on Thursday that his ruling party's crushing election defeat last month reflected the
July 02, 2024
Bank of Japan board members turned overwhelmingly hawkish at their April policy meeting with some seeing the chance of interest rates rising faster than anticipated, a
May 22, 2024
A U.S. warship sailed through the narrow Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, less than two weeks before Taiwan's new president takes office, prompting an angry denunciation from
May 22, 2024Japan's inflation-adjusted real wages in March fell 2.5% from a year earlier, marking declines for two straight years, labour ministry data showed on Thursday.
May 22, 2024
China's military is accusing the U.S. of playing up for maximum political effect its warship's passage through the Taiwan Strait
May 09, 2024
Japan will add large fin whales to its list of commercial whaling species, government spokesperson Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Thursday, five years after leaving an international body
May 22, 2024
China and Hungary will embark on a "golden voyage" in bilateral relations, Chinese President Xi Jinping said after meeting Hungarian Prime
May 24, 2024
China's exports and imports returned to growth in April after contracting in the previous month, signalling an encouraging improvement in demand at home and overseas as
May 24, 2024
The Philippine economy accelerated less than expected in the first quarter as weaker consumer spending restrained growth, reinforcing
May 22, 2024
China's April exports grew 1.5% year-on-year, while imports increased 8.4%, customs data showed on Thursday, suggesting demand at home and abroad may be slowly returning in a boost
May 22, 2024
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is criss-crossing India in a marathon election campaign but, for the first time since 1996, his Bharatiya
May 22, 2024
It's time for a reality check about decarbonising Asia's vast and growing steel sector.
May 24, 2024
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Thursday the central bank will scrutinise the yen's recent declines in guiding monetary policy.
May 22, 2024
India's consumer price inflation is likely to have eased to 4.80% in April, just shy of March's rate as food inflation remains sticky, according to economists
May 22, 2024
Former Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has been sentenced to a year in prison for interfering in a criminal investigation while leading the government of his South Pacific island nation
May 09, 2024
The energy unit of Japan's Panasonic Holdings missed its operating profit guidance for the past business year due to lower electric-vehicle battery production in
May 22, 2024
Myanmar's military chief discussed plans to hold an election in the country with former Cambodian leader Hun Sen in talks this week, a senior official said, even as the ruling junta faces
May 23, 2024
China will send two warships to Cambodia and East Timor from the first half of May to mid-June, its defence ministry said, potentially further unnerving the United States over
May 22, 2024Embattled Chinese property developer Country Garden said it was unable to pay two onshore coupons due on Thursday, but China Bond Insurance Co would do so on its
May 22, 2024
Police in Vietnam have arrested a senior official involved in talks with international organisations on labour reforms, state media said on Thursday, adding that the action was linked
May 24, 2024Two Chinese provincial capitals lifted all home purchase restrictions on
May 24, 2024
Stocks in Asia are mixed after a rally on Wall Street that pulled the S&P 500 back within 1% of its record
May 09, 2024
Nissan’s profit for the fiscal year through March has jumped 92% to 426.6 billion yen, or $2.7 billion, as the Japanese automaker’s sales grew in all major global markets except China
May 09, 2024
Air Vanuatu has cancelled international flights for four days and is considering bankruptcy protection for the South Pacific state-owned carrier
May 09, 2024
China's new yuan loans likely dropped sharply in April from March due mainly to seasonal factors, a Reuters poll showed, even as the central bank keeps policy support for the
May 24, 2024Japan's Nissan Motor expects to beat analyst estimates with a 5.5% rise in operating profit this fiscal year on higher global sales, it said on Thursday, while
May 24, 2024
An evacuation was ordered for communities near a fire at a chemical storage tank terminal that killed one person in Thailand's eastern Rayong province, as the blaze was likely to
May 22, 2024Gunmen shot and killed seven labourers near southwestern Pakistan's Gwadar port early on Thursday, police said.
May 22, 2024Chinese automaker BYD will consider building a second assembly plant in Europe in 2025, its European managing director Michael Shu said on Thursday.
May 24, 2024
Sony Group and other parties are considering buying online comic store operator Infocom Corp in a deal worth up to 200 billion yen ($1.28 billion), Bloomberg News reported on Thursday
May 24, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol called for tax incentives to encourage corporate participation in the government's reform programme as well as detailed measures to improve
May 24, 2024
India says Canada has shared no evidence to back its allegation that the Indian government was involved in the slaying of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada last year, despite the recent arrests of three Indian men in the crime
May 09, 2024
Meta's oversight board upheld a decision to remove two Facebook posts calling for Australians to vote multiple times in an indigenous rights referendum, but noted the
May 24, 2024
The senior U.S. official for North Korea discussed the country with her Chinese counterpart in Tokyo on Thursday, and expressed concerns about the forcible repatriation of North
May 24, 2024
India has replaced some 80 soldiers on the Maldives with civilians after a demand by President Mohamed Muizzu who has pivoted the archipelago's ties towards
May 24, 2024Beijing and Washington have quietly resumed cooperation on the deportation of Chinese immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally
May 09, 2024
The Taliban are warning journalists and experts against working with Afghanistan International TV
May 09, 2024
The Biden administration added 37 Chinese entities to a trade restriction list on Thursday, including some for allegedly supporting the spy
May 24, 2024
The U.S. is satisfied so far with India's moves to ensure accountability in alleged assassination plots against Sikh activists, but many steps are still needed, the U.S.
May 24, 2024
Police say suspected militants bombed a girls school in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country’s volatile northwest, badly damaging the structure
May 09, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
May 24, 2024
Singapore's second-largest bank Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) posted on Friday a better-than-expected 5% rise in first-quarter profit
May 24, 2024
Japan's consumer spending fell for the 13th straight month in March, creating challenges for policymakers who are seeking to drive stronger
May 24, 2024
Currency markets are reading subtle signals from Chinese authorities as an indication they are slowly nudging the yuan lower to regain export competitiveness, but analysts say
May 24, 2024
A top public relations executive from Chinese technology firm Baidu has apologized after she made comments that were seen as glorifying a culture of overwork
May 09, 2024
The Philippines said on Friday it aimed to add three more processing plants in the effort to develop a downstream industry for its abundant nickel
May 25, 2024
Erratic rainfall in China's southwest is frustrating a multibillion-dollar push to green an aluminium industry that accounts for almost 60% of global output and, by some estimates,
May 27, 2024
SoftBank CEO Junichi Miyakawa said on Thursday that the Japanese telecommunications firm is in talks with South Korea's Naver over control of LY
May 24, 2024
The Philippines' national security adviser called on Friday for Chinese diplomats to be expelled over an alleged leak of a phone conversation with a Filipino admiral in
July 02, 2024
The Bank of Japan will likely raise interest rates again as early as July and keep hiking borrowing costs next year and beyond if the economy
May 24, 2024
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck off Taiwan's east coast on Friday, the island's weather administration said, with no immediate reports of damage.
May 25, 2024South Korea's foreign minister Cho Tae-yul will visit China between Monday and Tuesday next week at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, Seoul's foreign ministry said
May 25, 2024
China's military closely monitored and "drove away" USS Halsey that entered the territorial waters of Paracel Islands in the South China Sea on May 10, the Southern Theater Command
May 25, 2024
An escalating diplomatic row and recent maritime run-ins between China and the Philippines have made the highly strategic South China Sea a flashpoint.
May 25, 2024Japanese technology
May 27, 2024
India's top court gave temporary bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a graft case on Friday, allowing him to campaign in the ongoing
July 02, 2024
Opposition leaders in India's troubled Kashmir valley have accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration of denying or cancelling permissions to
May 25, 2024
China's car exports surged to a record high in April, data showed on Friday, as domestic sales slipped 5.8% from a year earlier amid intensifying price
May 25, 2024
Japan's economy likely contracted an annualised 1.5% in the January-March quarter as all key drivers of growth slumped due to an uncertain outlook, a Reuters poll
May 27, 2024
China firmly opposes the abuse of export control tools such as the U.S. entity list, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Friday, after the U.S. added 37 Chinese firms to a
May 25, 2024
South Korea has vowed to protect its companies operating in other markets after Japanese regulators told LY Corp., which runs the popular chat app Line, to reduce its dependence on Naver, the Korean partner in the venture
May 10, 2024
A top Indian opposition leader has been freed from jail on interim bail by the Supreme Court nearly seven weeks after his arrest in a bribery case
May 10, 2024
Citigroup analysts upgraded India to "overweight" from "neutral" in their emerging markets allocation on Friday, citing strong earnings and economic growth
May 25, 2024
Private-sector members of a key government panel on Friday urged the Bank of Japan to be vigilant to the risk of sharp declines in the yen
May 25, 2024
Japan’s defense chief has called for the bolstering of its anti-drone capability after a drone footage posted on a Chinese social media site showed a Japanese aircraft carrier docked at a restricted navy port west of Tokyo
May 10, 2024
At least 50 people have died, and more than 100 were injured in Afghanistan in flooding following heavy rain in the northern province of Baghlan on Friday, a spokesman for the
May 26, 2024A Delhi court on Friday informed the ex-chief of India's wrestling federation, a powerful member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party, of
May 26, 2024
Indian security forces killed at least 12 Maoist rebels in a gun battle in central India on Friday, the chief minister of Chhattisgarh state said, the third major encounter in
May 26, 2024A Taliban official says that flash floods from seasonal rains in Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan have killed at least 50 people
May 10, 2024
A court in Vietnam has upheld the death sentence for real estate tycoon Truong My Lan but said it could be commuted to life if she reimburses some $11 billion
December 03, 2024
The United States and China discussed Chinese overcapacity in solar and battery manufacturing, steel production and coal power during two days of bilateral
May 26, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday inspected the country's artillery weapon system and attended the test-firing of such weapons, the North's state media KCNA news agency
May 27, 2024
The families of five Hawaii men who served in a unit of Japanese-language linguists during World War II have received posthumous Purple Heart medals on behalf of their loved ones nearly eight decades after the soldiers died in a plane crash in the final days of the conflict
May 11, 2024
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Saturday the country's support for a Palestinian bid to become a full United Nations member was part of building momentum to secure
May 27, 2024
India's opposition said the nation's election commission was allowing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to continue "unchecked and brazen" violations by not taking
May 27, 2024
The official death toll from devastating flash floods in northern Afghanistan has risen to 153 people across three
May 27, 2024
Embattled Chinese property developer Country Garden said in a statement on Saturday it had repaid two onshore bond coupons before the expiry of a five-day grace period, following
May 27, 2024
The U.N. food agency says more than 300 Afghans have died in flash floods that also destroyed more than 1,000 houses in the northern province of Baghlan
May 11, 2024
The Philippines said on Saturday it has deployed ships to a disputed area in the South China Sea, where it accused China of building "an artificial island" in an escalating maritime
May 27, 2024
Eight more Chinese cities have joined a scheme allowing their residents to travel to Hong Kong on their own, rather than as part of a tour group, as part of efforts to boost Hong
May 27, 2024
The South Korean won came off a more than two-year low against the dollar on Tuesday, while exchange traded funds linked to South Korean stocks
December 03, 2024
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China said it would issue 30 billion yuan ($4.15 billion) worth of total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC) bonds on May 15, marking the first
May 27, 2024
South Korea is readying plans for a support package for chip investments and research worth more than 10 trillion won ($7.30 billion), the finance minister said on Sunday, after
May 27, 2024
Indonesian officials say a bus slammed into cars and motorbikes after its brakes apparently malfunctioned in West Java province, killing at least 11 people, mostly students, and injuring dozens of others
May 12, 2024
Heavy rains and torrents of cold lava and mud flowing down a volcano's slopes on Indonesia’s Sumatra island have triggered flash floods
May 12, 2024
Flash floods caused by heavy rains have devastated villages in northern Afghanistan, killing 315 people and injuring more than
May 27, 2024
Heavy rain brought floods and landslides to Indonesia's province of West Sumatra, killing at least 28, with four still missing, authorities said on Sunday.
May 27, 2024A British climber and a Nepali guide have broken their own records for most climbs of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, hiking officials said on Sunday
July 02, 2024
A surprise declaration of martial law in Korea that had sent the won plummeting and gave U.S.
December 03, 2024
As Indonesia’s president elect Prabowo Subianto prepares to enter office in October, he looks set to take a more assertive stance in foreign policy, saying that diplomacy,
May 27, 2024
Victims of the devastating floods in northern Afghanistan are burying the dead and looking for the loved ones still missing
May 12, 2024
U.S. stocks tiptoed to more records after a quiet day of trading
December 03, 2024
Buddha's birthday is an important holiday in several countries in Asia where there are large Buddhist populations
May 12, 2024
The euro rose modestly against the U.S. dollar on Tuesday, as political turmoil in France sent traders scrambling for hedging protection against further
December 03, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
May 27, 2024
Quarterly earnings reports from Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com this week will be closely watched as barometers for the mood of consumers in the world's
May 27, 2024
India voted on Monday in the fourth phase of a seven-week long general election, as campaign rhetoric became more strident over
July 02, 2024
Flash floods and mud slides in Indonesia's West Sumatra province killed at least 43 people over the weekend while a search for 15 missing people continued, authorities said on
May 28, 2024
As Japan embarks on a major military build-up, it's struggling to fill its ranks with the women that its forces need and its policymakers have
July 02, 2024
Japan is seeing conditions fall in place for the central bank to normalise monetary policy, ruling party heavyweight Katsunobu Kato told
May 27, 2024
Rescuers have recovered more bodies after monsoon rains triggered flash floods on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, leaving 44 people dead and 15 missing
May 13, 2024
After withdrawing from two huge U.S. military bases in the Philippines at the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, American forces are returning and building a new presence in nine sites on Philippine bases under a 2014 defense pact to counter China's increasingly assertive actions
May 13, 2024
The Philippines said on Monday that it would keep a closer guard on reefs, shoals and islets in its exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea, as China
May 28, 2024
Australia's government is expected to boast another surplus in its annual budget due on Tuesday, courtesy of strong employment and high commodity prices
May 27, 2024
South Korea's financial watchdog said on Monday it was expanding and toughening the assessment of real estate projects in a bid to speed up restructuring of the sector.
May 27, 2024
Asian shares are mixed in muted trading after U.S. stock indexes were little changed
May 13, 2024
Millions of Indians across 96 constituencies are casting their ballots as the country’s gigantic, six-week-long election edges past its halfway mark
May 13, 2024
Indonesia's Ibu volcano erupted on Monday morning, spewing thick columns of grey ash several kilometres into the sky, the country's volcanology agency said.
May 27, 2024
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif approved a grant of 24 billion rupees ($86 million) on Monday for Pakistan-ruled Kashmir where there have been
July 02, 2024
China and South Korea should seek stable ties despite their recent "difficulties", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his South
May 28, 2024
Japan's Shionogi & Co said on Monday its pill-based treatment for COVID-19 did not meet the primary endpoint of showing a statistically significant reduction of 15 common symptoms of
May 27, 2024
Survivors of the devastating floods that struck northern Afghanistan last week are still searching for their missing loved ones and burying their dead
May 13, 2024
Authorities in China were expected on Monday to release a citizen journalist jailed for four years after she documented the early phases of the coronavirus outbreak from the central city
May 28, 2024
A former economy minister of Kazakhstan was sentenced to 24 years in prison on Monday for murdering his wife following a widely watched trial that some saw as a litmus test of the
July 02, 2024
India's retail inflation rate eased slightly in April, partly due to lower fuel prices, although food prices remained elevated, government data showed on
May 28, 2024
China's finance ministry plans to start raising 1 trillion yuan ($138 billion) in long-awaited, long-term special treasury bonds this week to raise funds it will use to
May 28, 2024
Singapore's incoming prime minister Lawrence Wong appointed a new deputy premier in a minor reshuffle of the cabinet on Monday, as he gears up to become the city-
May 28, 2024
Hong Kong-listed real estate fund manager ESR Group, currently valued at $5.4 billion, halted trading in its shares on Monday, saying that a group of
May 28, 2024McDonald's is actively cooperating with the Chinese local market regulator to investigate and verify matters related to food issues, the company said on its Chinese website on
May 28, 2024
Voters in the main Indian Kashmir city of Srinagar turned out in large numbers in national elections on Monday, reversing the trend of abysmally low vote
May 28, 2024
Reports that soldiers of Myanmar’s military government last week carried out a massacre of more than 30 civilians in a village in central Myanmar have been supported in interviews with a local administrator and a man who says he survived the killings
May 13, 2024
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission has opened discussions with Islamabad on a new loan programme, a Pakistan finance ministry statement said on Monday.
May 28, 2024
At least four people are dead, 61 injured and more than 40 feared trapped after a massive billboard fell during a rainstorm in India's financial capital of Mumbai on Monday, local
May 28, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris has used a profanity while offering advice to young Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders about how to break down barriers
May 13, 2024
A billboard has collapsed and killed three people and injured 59 in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, in thunderstorms and heavy rain
May 13, 2024
Australia's government will boast a second consecutive budget surplus on Tuesday, courtesy of strong employment and high commodity prices, giving it cash to afford more cost of
May 28, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
May 28, 2024
A large billboard that collapsed amid raging thunderstorms in Mumbai killed at least 14 people and injured 75 others, reports said on Tuesday
May 14, 2024
China-based Hesai Group sued the U.S. government on Monday for adding the maker of lidar light sensors to a list of companies allegedly working with Beijing's military.
May 29, 2024The number of people killed by flash floods and mud slides in Indonesia's West Sumatra province has risen to 52, and more than 3,000 people have been
May 29, 2024
The U.S. and Taiwan navies conducted joint drills in the Pacific in April that, officially, did not take place, four people briefed on the matter said, as the two militaries boost
May 29, 2024
The Philippine central bank will keep its key policy rate unchanged on Thursday, according to a Reuters poll of economists who now expected the
May 28, 2024
Qantas Airways said on Tuesday it will suspend flights to Shanghai starting on July 28, citing low demand, nine months after the Australian flag carrier resumed service from Sydney on
May 28, 2024
Rescuers are searching in rivers and the rubble of devastated villages for bodies, and whenever possible survivors, of flash floods that hit Indonesia’s Sumatra Island over the weekend
May 14, 2024
Hong Kong's leader has urged foreign governments to respect its overseas-based trade offices after a staff member in its London branch was charged in Britain for allegedly working for the Chinese city’s intelligence service
May 14, 2024
Pakistan will privatise all state-owned enterprises, with the exception of strategic entities, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday, broadening its
July 02, 2024
Rescue workers used excavators to clear mangled metal debris in their final search for survivors trapped underneath a billboard that
July 02, 2024
A former Australian army lawyer has been sentenced to almost six years in prison for leaking classified information that exposed allegations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan
May 14, 2024
Asian stocks have advanced after equities rose on Wall Street, with the Nasdaq composite hitting a record high
May 14, 2024
The Chinese Foreign Ministery says Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a two-day state visit to China this week
May 14, 2024
China's Ministry of Education said on Tuesday it was launching a campaign to address issues including excessive homework and bullying in schools, as part of efforts to boost
May 29, 2024
Apple supplier Foxconn said on Tuesday it remained confident about strong AI server demand this year driving revenue, and pledged to stand by Japan's
May 29, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit China on May 16-17 for discussions with Xi Jinping about the conflict in Ukraine as well as deepening energy and
July 02, 2024
There are early signs that a La Nina weather event may form in the Pacific Ocean later this year, Australia's weather bureau said on Tuesday.
May 28, 2024
An alliance of civil rights group on Tuesday called off a protest march in Pakistan-ruled Kashmir after several days of clashes over high prices in
May 28, 2024
A top migration monitoring group says conflicts and natural disasters left nearly 76 million people displaced within their countries last year, a new record
May 14, 2024
A young Thai activist who went on a hunger strike after being jailed for advocating reform of the country’s monarchy system has died in a prison hospital
May 14, 2024
China's Alibaba Group Holding reported an 86% plunge in fourth-quarter profit on Tuesday primarily due to valuation changes from equity investments, pushing
May 29, 2024
Negotiations between China and an Arab bloc for a free trade agreement have stalled over concerns by Saudi Arabia that cheap Chinese imports could undermine its
May 29, 2024
China's Ant Group posted a 19% fall in net profit of 7.87 billion yuan ($1.09 billion) in the three months to Dec. 31, according to Reuters calculations based on Alibaba Group
May 29, 2024
A Thai political activist died in custody on Tuesday, the department of corrections said, and a legal aid group said she had been on a partial hunger strike during her pre-trial
May 30, 2024
China's Tencent Holdings posted a 6% rise in first-quarter revenue on Tuesday, beating analyst expectations, on strong growth in advertising sales and business services
May 29, 2024
Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Tuesday there was "not one shred of evidence" of ship-to-ship transfers of sanctioned Iranian oil off Malaysia, amid U.S. concern that Iran
May 29, 2024
Stellantis is seeking the maximum manufacturing flexibility to navigate potential customs duties as it takes on China's budget electric vehicle (EV) players with models
May 29, 2024
When China's local governments began compiling a "whitelist" of housing projects for loans earlier this year, troubled developers hoped it would open a
May 30, 2024
South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol confirmed his country's participation in a Ukraine peace summit in a phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart on Tuesday, President Volodymyr
May 29, 2024
Taiwan reported Chinese forces were carrying out another “combat patrol” near the island on Tuesday, including sending aircraft across the Taiwan Strait’s sensitive
May 29, 2024
China strongly opposed the United States' tariff hikes, its commerce ministry said on Tuesday, vowing it will take resolute measures to defend its rights and interests.
May 29, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi defended himself against criticism that he is stoking divisions between Hindus and Muslims to win national elections as he
May 29, 2024
Sizzling heat across Asia and the Middle East in late April that echoed last year’s destructive swelter was made 45 times more likely in some parts of the continent because of human-caused climate change, a study Tuesday found
May 14, 2024
Honda Motor is scaling down its full-time production workforce in China, with roughly 1,700 employees having agreed to leave thus far, the Japanese automaker said on Wednesday, as its
May 30, 2024
Extreme temperatures throughout Asia last month were made worse - and more likely - as a result of human-driven climate change, a team of international scientists said on
May 29, 2024
President Joe Biden’s move to hike tariffs on Chinese goods should help U.S.-based medical mask and glove makers, a sector that has largely flamed out after surging
May 29, 2024
North Korea laundered $147.5 million through virtual currency platform Tornado Cash in March after stealing it last year from a cryptocurrency exchange,
May 29, 2024
Alphabet's YouTube on Tuesday said it would comply with a court decision and block access inside Hong Kong to 32 video links
May 30, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin's Beijing visit on Thursday is likely to be light on hard deals but will mark the start of his new
May 30, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
May 29, 2024
Singapore’s new prime minister has vowed to make “tomorrow better than today” as he took his oath of office in a carefully planned political succession designed to ensure stability in the Asian financial hub
May 15, 2024
FBI arrests man allegedly helping prepare ‘surprise attack’ on South Korea
December 03, 2024
China's central bank left a key policy rate unchanged when rolling over maturing medium-term lending facility (MLF) loans on Wednesday, in line with market expectations.
May 30, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview published early on Wednesday, said he backed China's plan for a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine crisis, saying Beijing had a full
May 30, 2024
Singapore's Lawrence Wong was sworn in on Wednesday as its fourth premier since independence, promising to lead the wealthy city state his own way after completing
July 02, 2024
Lawrence Wong, 51, will take over as prime minister of Singapore on Wednesday, becoming the fourth leader of the Asian financial hub since its independence in 1965.
May 30, 2024
Chinese coast guard ships have shadowed a group of Filipino activists and fishermen sailing on wooden boats toward a disputed shoal in the South China Sea which Beijing has fiercely guarded from what it regards as intruders
May 15, 2024
YouTube has blocked access to videos of a protest song in Hong Kong to comply with a removal order, days after a court approved an injunction to ban the song in the city
May 15, 2024
Utility price hikes in more than 10 Chinese cities may briefly lift nationwide inflation from ultra-low levels, but could ultimately turn into a deflationary force in
May 30, 2024
The death toll from weekend flash floods and mud slides in Indonesia's West Sumatra province rose to 62 on Wednesday, authorities said, while rescuers
May 30, 2024
Indonesia posted a slightly bigger-than-expected trade surplus in April of $3.56 billion, as the country saw smaller-than-estimated imports,
May 30, 2024
The Thai industrial sentiment index dropped in April, dented by slowing domestic demand, a government minimum wage hike plan and drought, the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI)
May 30, 2024
China is considering a plan for local governments nationwide to buy millions of unsold homes, Bloomberg News said on Wednesday, after a meeting of leaders of the ruling Communist Party
May 30, 2024
Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu called on the World Health Organization on Wednesday to allow the island to attend all its meetings if it is serious about its goal of "Health for
May 30, 2024
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has become the country's eighth-largest electric vehicle upstart after selling more than 7,000 units of its first model, the SU7 sedan, in
May 30, 2024
Asian shares are higher after U.S. stocks rallied to records on hopes that inflation is heading back in the right direction
May 15, 2024
The Philippines has sent three coast guard vessels to ensure the safety of a civilian flotilla sailing to a shoal in the South China Sea, where Manila and Beijing have been embroiled
May 30, 2024
Mizuho Financial Group reported a big jump in fourth-quarter profit on Wednesday that beat expectations, helped by its overseas business and demand for loans at home, and it forecast
May 30, 2024
Singapore's Lawrence Wong, who becomes on Wednesday the wealthy city-state's first new prime minister in 20 years, took to Tiktok in the years before to engage
May 30, 2024
China's military has sailed and flown closer to Taiwan in recent weeks than it has before, and staged mock attacks on foreign vessels ahead of the inauguration of the
May 30, 2024
Indonesia is set to pass a revision to its constitutional court law, legislators have confirmed, ushering in changes that legal experts say will
May 30, 2024Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin ordered an investigation on Wednesday into the death of a young political activist who died after she went on a partial hunger strike during
May 30, 2024
Indonesia should be more daring on taking on additional debt, its President-elect Prabowo Subianto said on Wednesday, while claiming that his target of boosting growth in Southeast
May 30, 2024
India's merchandise trade deficit in April was wider than expected, hurt by lower exports and a surge in gold imports, government data showed on Wednesday
May 30, 2024
Malaysia's communications minister expressed outrage at Meta Platforms on Tuesday, demanding it explain why it had taken down Facebook posts by local media
May 30, 2024
A helicopter used by the Afghan air force crashed as it attempted an emergency landing in central Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring 12
May 30, 2024India's Supreme Court has ordered the release of the founder-editor of a news portal accused by police of receiving illegal funding from
May 30, 2024
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) posted a narrower-than-expected decline in fourth-quarter profit on Wednesday, and forecast slight profit growth in the current financial year.
May 30, 2024
Japan welcomed more than 3 million visitors for a second straight month in April, official data showed on Wednesday, setting the stage for a potential record year for tourism.
May 30, 2024
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was granted bail in Islamabad on Wednesday on land corruption charges but will have to stay in jail to serve time in two other
May 30, 2024
Chinese electric vehicle maker Nio on Wednesday launched the first vehicle in its new lower-priced brand Onvo which aims to compete there with Tesla's Model Y, the
July 02, 2024
Pakistan's main share index continued its rally to breach the 75,000 mark for the first time on Wednesday on the back of heavy foreign buying while
May 30, 2024
China's measured response to the U.S. move to hike tariffs on $18 billion of Chinese goods from syringes to batteries suggests relations between the
May 31, 2024
The Biden administration says the White House is sending an unofficial delegation to Taiwan this weekend for the inauguration of the island’s democratically elected president
May 15, 2024
President Joe Biden will dispatch former U.S. officials to Taiwan as its new president takes office, a show of support for the island calibrated to avoid
May 30, 2024
India granted citizenship on Wednesday to a first batch of 14 people under a controversial law that has been criticised for discriminating against Muslims, midway
May 30, 2024
China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin on Thursday pledged a "new era" of partnership between the two most
July 02, 2024
Nexperia, a Dutch-based computer chip maker, will comply with U.S. restrictions after its Chinese parent company Wingtech was put on the U.S.
December 03, 2024
Chinese chip companies targeted by Washington with fresh export controls have vowed to speed up supply chain localisation and said they
December 03, 2024
U.S. automaker Tesla's's sales of China-made electric vehicles fell 4.3% year-on-year to 78,856 in November, data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) showed on Tuesday.
December 03, 2024
China has not responded to U.S. nuclear-weapons risk-reduction proposals and Washington has questions about Beijing's call for no-first-use talks while China continues to build
May 30, 2024
Police in India's northeastern state of Tripura arrested seven members of a Hindu group and charged them with breaking into the Bangladesh consulate and vandalising
December 03, 2024Indonesia is optimistic an agreement can be reached on the repatriation to Australia of the remaining five members of the 'Bali Nine' drug ring, the senior
December 03, 2024
Indonesia is expecting to get a $1 billion investment commitment from tech firm Apple Inc in a week, its investment minister said on Tuesday, after the government banned iPhone 16
December 03, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
May 30, 2024
Peru's President Dina Boluarte will travel to China in June to meet with her counterpart Xi Jinping, her agriculture minister announced on Wednesday, adding that beef exports to the
May 31, 2024
Japan's three biggest banks forecast record income in the coming year on Wednesday, signalling increased optimism about an economy that has only just exited from years
May 30, 2024
Shares of Chinese property developers rallied on Thursday after a report that China was considering a plan for local governments across the country to buy millions of
May 31, 2024
Growth in Thailand's economy was likely subdued in the quarter through March despite solid tourist arrivals, hampered by weak exports and domestic demand, a
May 31, 2024
Japan has reported that its economy contracted at an annual rate of 2% in the first quarter of the year, as spending and exports declined
May 16, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China underlines an increasingly close partnership between the two allies
May 16, 2024
In tears, Yose Rizal, 43, placed flowers on the graves of his sister and niece, who died during the intense flooding in Indonesia's West Sumatra
May 31, 2024
Meta Platforms has restored Facebook posts by Malaysian media covering Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's meeting this week with a Hamas leader, saying they were
May 31, 2024
Lai Ching-te takes office as Taiwan's president on Monday, facing a China that calls him a "dangerous separatist" and has ramped up military drills,
June 02, 2024
South Korea's state-run think tank on Thursday raised its economic growth forecast for this year and said inflation is expected to ease at a slightly slower pace, as it noted the
May 31, 2024
China has announced a ban on exports to the United States of gallium, germanium and other key high-tech materials with potential military applications
December 03, 2024
Air travel demand from China is not back to pre-pandemic levels for
May 31, 2024
As the United States intensifies efforts to reduce trade with China by hiking tariffs, it has greatly boosted imports from Vietnam, which relies on Chinese
May 31, 2024
Microsoft is asking some of its China-based staff to consider transferring outside the country, the company said on Thursday, as Sino-U.S. relations strain amid a race for cutting-edge
May 31, 2024
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan appeared before the Supreme Court by video link from prison on Thursday to plead his petition against changes in
May 31, 2024
An AI video shows an ecstatic Narendra Modi sporting a trendy jacket and trousers, grooving on a stage to a Bollywood song
May 31, 2024
A Philippine group leading a civilian supply mission in the South China Sea delivered food and fuel to Filipino fishermen despite being shadowed by Chinese vessels, its
May 31, 2024Asian shares have retreated after U.S. stocks edged back from their record heights
May 16, 2024
Dozens of pro-cannabis advocates in Thailand gathered at the health ministry on Thursday to oppose the government’s plan to relist it as narcotics, two years after it was decriminalized
May 16, 2024
Vietnam's fifth-ranking leader has quit her posts, the ruling
June 04, 2024Vietnam's Communist Party on Thursday added four new member to its Politburo, the most powerful decision-making body in the country, state media reported.
May 31, 2024South Korea's finance minister on Thursday said Seoul and Beijing should seek better economic cooperation on the supply chain for raw materials.
May 31, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed on Thursday to deepen their "strategic partnership" while scolding the United States for a series of moves
May 31, 2024
Japan's Toshiba said on Thursday it will cut up to 4,000 jobs domestically as the industrial conglomerate accelerates restructuring under new ownership.
May 31, 2024
A campaign by Chinese authorities to encourage people to replace their old apartments with new ones is attracting interest, but faces one
May 31, 2024
Toyota Motor is testing the new battery-electric Hilux pickup truck to assess its performance in different conditions as the car maker prepares to manufacture
May 31, 2024
Singapore's first prime minister in 20 years held an initial cabinet meeting on Thursday after taking office with a pledge to sustain what he called the miracle of
May 31, 2024
Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller was not on Russian President Vladimir Putin's state visit to China because he was holding talks with the Iranian leadership, the world's biggest natural gas
May 31, 2024
As professional rugby teams and tournaments around the world contend with tough financial headwinds Japan continues to buck the trend, experiencing historic growth both in teams and crowds
May 16, 2024
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is expected to meet with China's defense minister during a conference in Singapore later this month, a U.S. official said on Thursday.
June 01, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin made a state visit to China on Thursday where he was greeted by China's Xi Jinping. What are the main takeaways from the visit?
May 31, 2024
The Justice Department has announced multiple arrests in a series of complex stolen identity theft cases that officials say are part of a wide-ranging scheme that generates enormous proceeds for the North Korean government, including for its weapons program
May 16, 2024
The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has again denied that her country has exported weapons to Russia
May 16, 2024
Taiwan is reducing its reliance on the Chinese mainland as it seeks to insulate itself from pressure from Beijing and forge closer economic and trade ties with the United States
May 17, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin is concluding a two-day visit to China by emphasizing the countries' strategic ties as well as his own personal relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as they seek to present an alternative to U.S. global influence
May 17, 2024
China announced "historic" steps on Friday to stabilise its crisis-hit property sector, with the central bank facilitating 1 trillion yuan (
July 02, 2024
Malaysia's economy grew faster than expected in the first quarter of 2024, helped by household spending and a turnaround in exports, though
June 02, 2024
Chinese commercial space company CAS Space announced its "space tourism vehicle" will first fly in 2027 and travel to the edge of space in 2028, state media reported on Friday.
June 02, 2024
Vietnam forfeited at least $2.5 billion in foreign aid over the last three years and may lose another $1 billion because of administrative
June 02, 2024
China's factory output topped forecasts in April, helped by improving external demand, although retail sales unexpectedly slowed and the property sector
June 02, 2024
A Hong Kong court adjourned to June 11 a hearing of a petition on Friday seeking liquidation of Country Garden, providing a breather to the embattled Chinese
June 02, 2024
China's economic improvement will be further consolidated and strengthened as macro policies take effect, Liu Aihua, a spokesperson of the National Bureau of Statistics, said on
June 02, 2024
Property investment in China in the first four months of 2024 fell 9.8% from a year earlier, after dropping 9.5% in the first quarter, indicating the sector is yet to bottom out
June 02, 2024
About a month before Taiwan's January presidential election, China began sending intruders over the Taiwan Strait: more than 100 balloons, some of which
June 02, 2024
Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, again denied arms exchanges with Russia, state media KCNA reported on Friday, saying
June 02, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
June 02, 2024
Chinese carmaker BYD Co has postponed plans to produce lithium cathodes for electric vehicle (EV) batteries in
June 01, 2024
China has announced fresh measures to revive its ailing property industry after the latest data showed housing prices slumped further in April
May 17, 2024
North Korea has fired suspected short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast a day after South Korea and the U.S. flew powerful fighter jets in a drill that the North views as a major security threat
May 17, 2024
Police say suspected militants have bombed a girl's school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying the structure
May 17, 2024
With new photographic and video evidence, an Indian court battle over the origins of the world famous butter chicken is set to get spicier.
July 02, 2024
Two police officers were killed and another was injured in Malaysia's Johor state on Friday morning, when they were attacked by a man suspected of being a member of the Al
June 02, 2024Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng said on Friday new U.S. tariffs on Chinese EVs are detrimental to achieving carbon neutrality and green energy transition.
July 02, 2024
Taiwanese lawmakers shoved, tackled and hit each other in parliament on Friday in a bitter dispute about reforms to the chamber, just days
June 03, 2024
China will allow local government authorities to buy some homes at "reasonable" prices to provide affordable housing, Vice Premier He Lifeng told an online meeting on housing policy on
June 02, 2024
Foreign investors have reduced by nearly $2 billion their securities holdings in Vietnam's main stock market since early 2023 despite the
June 02, 2024Tesla is pushing ahead with plans to power the global development of its self-driving system with data from China that could be processed within the
June 02, 2024
North Korea fired a number of short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea off its east coast on Friday, South Korea's military said, a day after the U.S. and South
June 02, 2024
Pressure on Japan to prop up a weak yen may have ebbed, but currency weakness remains a headache for Tokyo.
June 03, 2024
A vaunted 'new era' of strategic partnership between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his counterpart Xi Jinping begun in Beijing on Thursday may not exactly have been sealed
July 02, 2024
Japan's weak consumption may heighten, rather than tame, already growing political pressure on the central bank to raise interest rates to slow the yen's declines
June 04, 2024
China is widely expected to hold benchmark lending rates steady on Monday, a Reuters survey showed, although expectations are growing for a cut in the mortgage reference
June 02, 2024
Foreign investors were net sellers of Asian bonds for a second straight month in April as a strong U.S. dollar and uncertainties around the Federal Reserve's interest rate cuts dampened
June 02, 2024
Japan's core consumer inflation probably slowed for a second straight month in April from a year earlier, a Reuters poll of 18 economists showed on Friday,
June 02, 2024
China will cut interest rates of mortgage loans and down-payment ratios for homebuyers to boost lacklustre property demand, according to three statements released by its central
June 02, 2024
China will allow local government authorities to buy some homes at "reasonable" prices to provide affordable housing, Vice Premier He Lifeng told an online meeting on housing
June 02, 2024
Russia and China helped each other expand their territorial reach, and democracies must push back against authoritarian states that threaten their rights and sovereignty, Taiwan’s outgoing foreign minister, Joseph Wu, said in an interview with The Associated Press
May 17, 2024
German arms producers will need help from the government if they are to reduce their dependency on Chinese materials and still be able to compete with U.S.
June 03, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday during a visit to China that U.S. tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles were an example of unfair competition.
June 03, 2024
China on Friday announced "historic" steps to stabilise the crisis-hit property sector, with the central bank facilitating 1 trillion yuan ($138 billion) in extra funding
June 03, 2024
Most Indian bond traders are looking for a cut in the government's short-term borrowing as a better way to regulate banking system liquidity after two
June 03, 2024
Hong Kong will allow mainland China's pilot digital currency to be used in shops in the city, the head of its de facto central bank said on Friday, marking a step
June 03, 2024
Russia and China expect to a sign a contract "in the near future" on the Power of Siberia-2 gas pipeline, which will carry Russian gas to China, Russian Deputy Prime Minister
June 02, 2024
Forty caretaker senators on Friday petitioned Thailand's Constitutional Court to dismiss Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin over a cabinet appointment which they say breaches the
June 02, 2024
Sherpas recovered the body of a Mongolian climber from Mount Everest and were looking for another mountaineer missing since the weekend, officials said on Friday.
June 02, 2024
Police say a man has stormed a police station in Malaysia and killed two officers in what's being investigated as a Jemaah Islamiyah terror attack
May 17, 2024
The Indian prime minister made reference to communities that have “too many children” in a veiled reference to Muslims.
May 17, 2024
Russia could deliver oil as well as gas to China along a planned route via Mongolia, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
June 03, 2024
The U.S. ambassador to Japan has stressed the importance of increased deterrence and his country’s commitment to its key ally as he visited two southwestern Japanese islands at the forefront of Tokyo's tension with Beijing
May 17, 2024
Super Hi International jumped 38% in its debut on Nasdaq, giving the operator of Chinese hotpot restaurant chain Haidilao a valuation of about $1.74 billion.
June 03, 2024
Sonia Gandhi, the leader of India's Congress party, made an emotional appeal to voters in the family borough, asking them to vote for her son in a region that Prime Minister Narendra Modi
June 03, 2024
France accused Azerbaijan on Friday of fanning the flames of riots in the French-ruled Pacific island of New Caledonia by flooding social media with what it said were misleading
June 03, 2024
Police in Japan who were busy tracking thousands of yakuza members just a few years ago have set their eyes on a new threat: unorganized and loosely connected groups they believe are behind a series of crimes once dominated by yakuza
May 18, 2024
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Saturday the country will "vigorously defend what is ours", in a thinly veiled reference to mounting tensions with China over
June 03, 2024
Australians stranded in New Caledonia are rationing food as they wait for a way out of the Pacific island territory, amid unrest that has killed six people, a traveller from
July 02, 2024
Taiwan's next president, Lai Ching-te, will pledge to secure stability by maintaining the status quo in the island's relationship with China in his inauguration speech
June 03, 2024
At least 50 people are dead following a fresh bout of heavy rain and flooding in central Afghanistan, an official said on Saturday.
July 02, 2024
Singapore will resume flying its F-16 fleet after suspending training when one of the jets crashed earlier this month, the defence ministry on Saturday.
June 03, 2024
Taliban officials say flash floods from heavy seasonal rains have killed at least 68 people in Afghanistan, adding the death toll was based on preliminary reports
May 18, 2024
China's agriculture minister is being investigated for suspected violations of law and discipline, the country's anti-graft watchdog said on Saturday.
June 03, 2024Pakistan's foreign ministry said on Saturday it had summoned and handed a note of protest to Kyrgyzstan's top diplomat in the country in response to violence
June 03, 2024It has been 15 years since the end of Sri Lanka's civil war, which pitted government forces against Tamil Tiger separatists
May 18, 2024
Vietnam's Communist Party has named police minister To Lam as the state president, the government said on Saturday, and also
July 02, 2024
A powerful ethnic armed group fighting Myanmar’s military government in the country’s western state of Rakhine is claiming to have seized a town near the Bangladesh border, marking the latest victory for foes of the country’s military government
May 18, 2024
Elon Musk has traveled to Indonesia’s resort island of Bali to launch Starlink satellite internet service in the world’s largest archipelago nation
May 19, 2024
Taiwan's next president Lai Ching-te will express "concrete" goodwill towards China in his inauguration speech on Monday, and call for both sides of
June 04, 2024
A volcano on the remote Indonesian island of Halmahera has spectacularly erupted, spewing a grey ash cloud into the sky, and people from seven nearby villages have been evacuated,
June 04, 2024
Two Chinese warships have docked at a commercial port in Cambodia, in preparation for joint naval exercises between the two countries
May 19, 2024A powerful armed ethnic group in Myanmar said on Sunday it had won control over a town in the western state of Rakhine after weeks of fighting, denying accusations it had targeted members
June 04, 2024
Lai Ching-te is inaugurated as Taiwan's new president on Monday. Following is a list of some of the foreign leaders and dignitaries attending the ceremony.
June 04, 2024
A tourist couple was injured in India's Kashmir after militants fired on them late on Saturday night, police said, ahead of voting scheduled in the
June 04, 2024
At least 47 people have died after continued heavy rain and flooding in northern Afghanistan, an official said on Sunday, a day after a similar number were killed in a central
June 04, 2024
French security forces are working to retake control of the highway to the international airport in violence-scorched New Caledonia, shuttered because of deadly unrest wracking the French Pacific archipelago where indigenous people have long sought independence from France
May 19, 2024
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other officials apparently has crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of his country
May 19, 2024
Islamic State on Sunday claimed responsibility for an attack by gunmen on tourists in Afghanistan's central Bamiyan province, the group said on its Telegram channel.
June 04, 2024Taiwan President Lai Ching-te asked China on Monday to stop its military and political threats, saying in his inauguration speech that peace was the
July 02, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
June 04, 2024
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces voter fatigue and some resistance from a resurgent opposition in India's mammoth general election, foot
June 04, 2024
The suspect in an attack on a Malaysian police station that killed two officers last week acted alone and was not part of any militant group, state news agency Bernama
June 04, 2024Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plan to create their first joint strategy on automobile production and sales within the Southeast Asian bloc to counter China's
June 04, 2024
China’s Ministry of Commerce has announced sanctions against Boeing and two other defense companies for their arms sales to Taiwan
May 20, 2024
South Korea is set to host a mini-summit this week on risks and regulation of artificial intelligence
May 20, 2024
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the country’s northwest
May 20, 2024
Asian shares are mostly lower even as most U.S. stock indexes finished higher, especially technology issues like Nvidia
May 20, 2024
Shares of Chinese developers wobbled on Monday as investors fretted that China's "historic" steps to stabilise its crisis-hit property sector fell short of
June 04, 2024
Thailand trimmed its economic growth forecast for 2024 on Monday despite a better-than-expected expansion in the January-March quarter,
June 04, 2024
Vietnam's economy is facing mounting pressure and the government will maintain policies that support growth, Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai said on Monday.
June 04, 2024
The Philippines challenged China on Monday to open Scarborough Shoal to international scrutiny after it accused Beijing of destroying the shoal's marine environment.
June 04, 2024
China's Commerce Ministry said on Monday that it will prohibit some U.S. firms from importing and exporting activities related to China, including one selling arms to Taiwan, and
June 04, 2024
Indonesia's central bank will keep its key interest rate on hold through next quarter to support a weak rupiah and only a slim majority expect a Q4 cut which
June 04, 2024
China left benchmark lending rates unchanged at a monthly fixing on Monday, in line with market expectations.
June 04, 2024
Millions of Indians across 49 constituencies are casting ballots as the country’s six-week-long election enters its final stages
May 20, 2024
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te took office on Monday, having won election in January.
June 04, 2024
Japan's large manufacturers saw exchange rate stability as the biggest factor they wanted out of the central bank's monetary policy, a Bank of Japan survey showed on
June 04, 2024Indonesia's coordinating minister of investment said that Elon Musk will consider an offer to build an electric vehicle battery plant in the country
June 04, 2024
China's exports to North Korea in April rose at a marginal pace from a year earlier, reversing an annual decline in March, customs data showed on Monday, as Pyongyang affirmed its
June 04, 2024
Iran’s first Vice President Mohammad Mokhber has been appointed acting president of the Islamic Republic after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash
May 20, 2024
Indonesia’s top investment official says the government has proposed building an electric vehicle battery plant to Tesla CEO Elon Musk
May 20, 2024
China's home prices will fall at a faster pace this year with worsening slumps in property investment and sales, a Reuters poll showed, a sombre
June 04, 2024
China's fiscal revenue slipped 2.7% in the first four months of 2024 from a year earlier, after a 2.3% slide in the January-March period, in a further sign of an uneven economic
June 04, 2024
Volkswagen's premium brand Audi said on Monday it would jointly develop a new China-specific platform for intelligent and electric vehicles with its Chinese joint venture partner
June 04, 2024
Nepal's prime minister won a parliamentary vote of confidence on Monday amid protests by the opposition demanding a parliamentary probe into allegations that his
June 04, 2024
South Korea's media regulator said on Monday it was banning access to a North Korean propaganda music video that it said idolised and glorified leader Kim Jong Un as
June 04, 2024
Taiwan's export orders rose more than expected and at the quickest pace in two years in April, with the government optimistic about the potential future
June 04, 2024
Sri Lanka's new economic transformation law will be presented to parliament this week and will include measures to attract investors and increase productivity,
June 04, 2024
Vietnam's National Assembly on Monday elected Tran Thanh Man as its new chairman, one of several key changes in an ongoing reshuffle of the country's top leadership.
June 04, 2024
India's anti-terror police have arrested four Sri Lankan nationals in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad for suspected links to the Islamic State, police
June 04, 2024Five people from one family in a remote Himalayan village voted in India's election in their own polling station on Monday after officials travelled for seven
June 04, 2024
Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday he was concerned about the negative implications of the current weakness in the yen and its effect on incentives to increase
June 05, 2024
China's Li Auto said it has postponed plans to launch pure electric SUV models to next year, citing hurdles such as a lack of enough fast chargers, sending its shares down more
June 05, 2024
China's embassy in Japan on Tuesday said it firmly opposes Japanese lawmakers visiting Taiwan and expressed firm protests.
June 05, 2024
China on Tuesday scolded South Korean and Japanese lawmakers for visiting Taiwan despite its strong opposition, chiding both neighbours for attending Taiwan's "so-called
June 05, 2024
Those who want to climb one of the most popular trails on Japan's iconic Mount Fuji will have to book a slot and pay a fee soon
May 20, 2024
Hong Kong’s leader says his government will keep monitoring for any non-compliance with a court order that bans a popular protest song
May 21, 2024
The Associated Press rode one of the longest trains in India — 1,800 miles from New Delhi to Kanyakumari — to interview voters about an election that will be decided in June
May 21, 2024
Vietnamese officials have called on Apple supplier Foxconn to voluntarily reduce power use by 30% at its assembly plants in the north
July 02, 2024
Thailand's new finance minister has refrained from pressuring the central bank and has a chance to
June 05, 2024
Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Tuesday Solomon Islands' newly elected Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele had told him the Pacific Island nation is
June 05, 2024
Authorities in Pakistan urged people to stay indoors as the country is hit by an extreme heat wave that threatens to bring dangerously high temperatures and yet another round of glacial-driven floods
May 21, 2024
Asian markets are mixed in quiet trading, with most of the regions’ benchmarks inching higher after U.S. stocks hit new record highs
May 21, 2024
A Thai minister at the centre of a pending legal complaint seeking the dismissal of Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin resigned on Tuesday, in an effort to insulate the premier from
June 05, 2024Vietnam's electric vehicle maker VinFast is being sued in a California court for not having paid rent for a store, according to a complaint filed by real estate services firm SPG
June 05, 2024
Thousands of people thronged the streets around Taiwan's parliament on Tuesday, protesting against measures to give lawmakers more
June 05, 2024
Vietnam's National Assembly said on Tuesday it will vote to dismiss To Lam from the post of Minister of Public Security, paving the way for him to be elected state president this
June 05, 2024French President Emmanuel Macron is making a surprise trip to New Caledonia, the French Pacific territory that has been gripped by days of deadly unrest and where indigenous people have long sought independence
May 21, 2024
One passenger died of a suspected heart attack and 30 were injured after a Singapore Airlines flight hit severe turbulence on Tuesday,
July 02, 2024
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called Taiwan's newly-inaugurated President Lai Ching-te "disgraceful" on Tuesday, stepping up Beijing's rhetoric just a day after he
June 05, 2024
India's capital, Delhi, has recorded its first heat-related death this year, media reported on Thursday, as India's northwest swelters in record high temperatures.
July 02, 2024
Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Baidu slashed prices on Tuesday of large-language models (LLMs) used to power generative artificial intelligence
June 05, 2024
Sri Lanka's consumer price inflation rose to 2.7% in April from 2.5% in March, official data showed on Tuesday.
June 05, 2024
Chinese online retailer JD.com is raising $1.5 billion via a convertible bond sale, according to the company's regulatory filings on Tuesday.
June 05, 2024
China has sanctioned Mike Gallagher, a former Republican member of Congress from Wisconsin who has shown support for Taiwan
May 21, 2024
There was little warning of the chaos that was to come as passengers on Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 relaxed with just three hours to Singapore after a long haul flight from London.
July 02, 2024
China will control the intertwined risks in the property sector, local government debt and small local financial institutions, Vice Premier He Lifeng said on Tuesday.
June 05, 2024
One passenger died of a suspected heart attack and 30 others were injured after a Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore hit severe turbulence on Tuesday, forcing the Boeing 777
July 02, 2024
The death of a British man and injuries impacting dozens of other people aboard a Singapore Airlines flight have highlighted the potential dangers of flying through extreme turbulence
May 21, 2024
Rangers have recovered the body of a Japanese man who died after an apparent fall while climbing North America’s tallest peak
May 21, 2024Vietnam’s National Assembly has confirmed the country’s top security official, To Lam, as its new president
May 22, 2024
Singapore and Australia agreed on Tuesday to seek opportunities for increased access to their respective defence facilities, including more frequent Australian
December 03, 2024
Zhang Zhan, a citizen journalist, has been released from a Chinese prison after serving four years for charges related to reporting on the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China
May 22, 2024
Israeli military strikes killed at least 23 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, most of them in the town of Beit Lahiya on the northern edge, medics
December 03, 2024
Sherpa mountain guide Kami Rita has scaled Mount Everest for a record 30th time
May 22, 2024
More than 140 passengers and crew from a Singapore Airlines flight on which one person died during heavy turbulence finally
June 07, 2024
Shares in Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng jumped more than 10% on Wednesday driven by revenue growth from research and development services offered to
June 05, 2024
A Nepali sherpa guide scaled the summit of Mount Everest for a record 30th time on Wednesday, an official said, while two climbers went missing while descending
June 11, 2024
The chairman of one of Nepal's largest media groups was arrested after a complaint of a discrepancy in his citizenship card, police said on Wednesday, drawing
June 05, 2024New Zealand’s proposed defence budget will be 6.6% smaller than the current year's, according to the defence minister's office, even as the
June 05, 2024
China is willing to work with the Vatican to improve ties, a Chinese foreign ministry official said on Wednesday following remarks from the
June 06, 2024
Vietnam's parliament elected police minister To Lam as the state president on Wednesday, in a move analysts see as a "stepping stone" for Lam to
June 06, 2024
Global hedge funds added to their holdings of Chinese equities for a fourth straight week, joining hordes of investors trying to get ahead of a rebound in the
June 05, 2024
Japan has lodged a protest against the Chinese ambassador's "extremely inappropriate" comments about Taiwan, chief cabinet secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Wednesday.
June 05, 2024
A senior Chinese Communist Party official plans to visit Tokyo this month to meet with leaders from Japan's ruling parties and discuss resuming regular talks between the parties for
June 05, 2024
Japan's exports rose for a fifth straight month in April, helped by a boost in value from the weak yen, government data showed on Wednesday, but shipment volumes
June 05, 2024
British police are investigating the unexplained death of a man charged earlier this month with assisting Hong Kong's foreign intelligence service.
June 05, 2024
Emboldened by China's latest measures and pledges to fix the weakest parts of its struggling economy, domestic investors are scooping up
June 05, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
June 05, 2024
Passengers on the Singapore Airlines flight that descended sharply after hitting severe turbulence have described the “sheer terror” of the aircraft shuddering, loose items flying and people wrenched so badly that 20 remain in intensive care
May 22, 2024
The portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been publicly displayed along with those of his father and grandfather for the first time
May 22, 2024
China on Tuesday banned exports to the United States of the critical minerals gallium, germanium and antimony that have widespread military applications,
December 03, 2024
A member of Bangladesh's ruling party was found murdered in the Indian city of Kolkata on Wednesday morning, more than a week after he went missing, Bangladeshi Home Minister
June 06, 2024India's election panel on Wednesday ordered the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and opposition Congress to exercise restraint in their campaigns, after both had reported the other
July 02, 2024
Shell expects its Australian supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to help meet demand from emerging markets in south and southeast Asia, which are tipped
June 06, 2024
Several cities across China have lowered down payment and mortgage loan interest rates, in response to the latest wave of stimulus measures to boost lackluster property demand,
June 06, 2024
Indonesia's parliament is proposing changes to its broadcast law that would ban investigative journalism and LGBT content, sparking criticism from civil society groups and
June 07, 2024
Muslim electric-rickshaw driver Rashid Ahmed is fondly called "Our Modi" in his Delhi neighbourhood for his striking resemblance to Indian Prime Minister
June 06, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a public push to woo foreign investment on Wednesday, pledging further capital market reforms and promoting asset management
June 06, 2024
The head of Nomura Holdings on Tuesday apologised after a former employee was last month charged with multiple crimes including attempted murder and robbery, in what
December 03, 2024
Japan's Rakuten Group is partnering with eBay to test U.S. demand for used Japanese fashion goods, made all the cheaper with the yen trading near a 34-year low.
June 06, 2024
North Korean media have published photographs showing leader Kim Jong Un's portrait hanging prominently next to those of his father and grandfather, in an apparent push to solidify
June 06, 2024
A senior Philippine navy official on Wednesday accused the Chinese embassy in Manila of recording a phone call without his consent and denied forging a deal with Beijing to
June 05, 2024
China should raise its import tariffs on large gasoline-powered cars to 25%, a government-affiliated auto research body expert told China's Global Times newspaper as the country
June 06, 2024
An Emirates flight landed safely in Mumbai late on Monday night after colliding with a flock of flamingos shortly before touchdown, damaging the plane and leaving several birds dead
June 05, 2024China has sanctioned 12 defense-related U.S. companies and 10 executives over arms sales to Taiwan and to retaliate for earlier American sanctions on Chinese companies tied to Russia
May 22, 2024Walt Disney has struck a deal to sell its stake in Tata Play, valuing Indian conglomerate Tata Group's satellite TV provider at about $1 billion, Bloomberg News reported on
June 07, 2024
China Evergrande New Energy Vehicle said on Wednesday its unit had received a letter from the country's local administrative bodies demanding repayment of 1.9 billion yuan ($262.42 million)
June 06, 2024
A wave of civil unrest in New Caledonia, a French overseas territory in the southern Pacific that is a leading nickel producer, has halted mining operations and
June 06, 2024
Saudi Arabia is sending a delegation that includes the kingdom's investment minister to China this week, four people familiar with the
June 06, 2024Nearly half of Japanese firms find the yen's slide beyond 155 to the dollar harmful to their business, roughly double the percentage of those who see the
June 07, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
June 07, 2024
Taiwan says it has scrambled jets and put missile, naval and land units on alert over drills China has announced around the self-governing island democracy
May 23, 2024
Leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will meet next week in Seoul for their first trilateral talks since 2019
May 23, 2024
Asian shares are mostly lower after a retreat on Wall Street following strong economic reports that raised the possibility of interest rates staying painfully high
May 23, 2024
Chinese state media have reported that electric vehicle maker Tesla has begun construction of a factory in Shanghai to make its Megapack energy storage batteries
May 23, 2024
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has said his country does not have a “China-phobia” policy and wants to engage both Beijing and Washington, expressing hopes for both powers to resolve their differences
May 23, 2024
A former Indian prime minister, an ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urged his lawmaker grandson on Thursday to return to India and face the law in connection with rape and
June 10, 2024Reliance Industries and Walt Disney have sought antitrust clearance for their $8.5 billion India media merger by arguing their combined power, especially on
June 08, 2024
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Thursday the economy was on track for a moderate recovery, suggesting a slump in first-quarter gross domestic
June 07, 2024
China will deepen reforms to tackle institutional obstacles to economic modernisation, President Xi Jinping was quoted by state media as saying on Thursday, ahead of a closely
June 07, 2024
China's
June 10, 2024
Around 50 Rohingya Muslims have arrived in Indonesia's North Sumatra province, an official at the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Thursday, the latest wave of arrivals who have
June 07, 2024China launched "punishment" drills around Taiwan on Thursday in what it said was a response to "separatist acts", sending up heavily armed
June 09, 2024
Government policies to encourage companies to pay more dividends should make China's stock market more attractive for overseas investors, a senior Chinese regulator said
June 07, 2024
Thailand's Constitutional Court accepted a complaint on Thursday seeking to remove Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin over his cabinet
June 07, 2024
In launching two days of "punishment" drills to protest against what it sees as the separatist instincts of Taiwan's newly inaugurated
June 07, 2024
China, the world's biggest agriculture importer, has set targets to drastically reduce its reliance on overseas buying over the coming decade in line with its push
June 07, 2024
China plans to buy up to 15,000 metric tons of cobalt metal from local Chinese
June 10, 2024
The leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will hold their first trilateral summit in more than four years in Seoul on May 26-27, Seoul's presidential office said on
June 07, 2024
Chinese planemaker COMAC is eyeing Saudi Arabia as a launch pad for its international ambitions, as the state-owned company steps up efforts to sell overseas and
June 07, 2024
Thailand's exports returned to growth in April, and at a much faster pace than analysts' expectations, and the commerce ministry said
June 07, 2024
Taiwan's military mobilised its forces after China started two days of "punishment" drills around Taiwan on Thursday in what it said was a response to "separatist acts", and after new
June 07, 2024
A suspected gas explosion at a residential building in China's northeastern city of Harbin killed one person and injured three as it tore off a balcony, state media said on Thursday
June 07, 2024
Business activity in India expanded robustly in May, helped by the dominant services industry, according to a survey that also showed exports rising at a record
June 07, 2024
South Korea's central bank held interest rates at a 15-year high on Thursday and struck a balanced policy tone while reiterating risks around
June 07, 2024
Chinese military drills in the straits of Taiwan in 2023 practiced manoeuvres key to an invasion of the island, although an actual attack
June 07, 2024
Singapore Airlines shares fell more than 1% in early trade on Thursday, following a deadly turbulence-hit flight.
June 07, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
June 09, 2024
Brazil and China signed on Thursday a joint statement calling for peace talks in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine with the participation of both countries, a document seen by
June 09, 2024
Twenty people who were aboard a Singapore Airlines flight that hit severe turbulence and diverted to Bangkok for an emergency landing on Tuesday remain in
June 08, 2024
At least seven people have died in India's southern state of Kerala after heavier than normal pre-monsoon rains, authorities said, even as much of South Asia
June 08, 2024
China staged mock missile strikes and dispatched fighter jets carrying live missiles along with bombers on Friday, state broadcaster CCTV said,
July 02, 2024
A shortening of U.S. stock settlement window next week is expected to upend trading for Asian money managers, pushing some to secure funds in the early hours of
June 10, 2024
Japan's core inflation slowed for a second straight month in April, likely signalling that the Bank of Japan will be patient in raising
June 10, 2024
China announced "historic" steps last week to stabilise its crisis-hit property sector, aiming to clear inventory and boost homebuyer demand.
June 09, 2024
The United States and several of its allies, including Britain, Canada, Australia, Germany and Japan, issued a joint statement on Friday calling on Taiwan to be
June 10, 2024
At least 14 people were killed and three injured in a fire that broke out at a densely populated residential area in Hanoi early on Friday, police said.
June 10, 2024China has sent dozens of warplanes and navy vessels off Taiwan's coast on the second day of a large exercise launched to show its anger over the island's inauguration of new leaders who refuse to accept Beijing's insistence that Taiwan is part of China
May 24, 2024
South Korea and Japan announced on Friday a series of sanctions applied to individuals, organisations and ships related to Russia's alleged procurement of weapons from North
June 10, 2024
More than 100 people are believed to have been killed in a landslide that buried a village in a remote, mountainous part of Papua New Guinea
May 24, 2024
Rescuers are combing through piles of debris and wreckage to search for bodies after an explosion and fire at a chemical factory in western India killed at least nine people and injured 64 others
May 24, 2024
An overnight fire in an apartment building on a narrow alley in Vietnam’s capital has killed 14 people and injured six others
May 24, 2024
The Philippine defense secretary says it will continue to build security alliances and stage joint combat drills in disputed waters to defend its territorial interests
May 24, 2024
A Sydney judge has ruled that former U.S. Marine Corps pilot Daniel Duggan can be extradited to the United States on allegations he illegally trained Chinese aviators, leaving the attorney-general as Duggan’s last hope of remaining in Australia
May 24, 2024
South Korea's military says North Korea appears to be preparing to launch its second military spy satellite into space
May 24, 2024
A Thai town, run ragged by its ever-growing population of marauding wild monkeys, has launched an offensive against the simian raiders, using trickery and ripe tropical fruit
May 24, 2024
Singapore Airlines says it will halt meal services and get all cabin crew to buckle up when planes fly through turbulence as part of tighter cabin measures after one person died and dozens were injured on a flight from London this week
May 24, 2024
The distributor of a popular protest song in Hong Kong has decided to remove the music from all platforms because of a court ban in the city, the group that created the song says
May 24, 2024
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets around Taiwan's parliament on Friday to demonstrate against contested parliamentary
June 10, 2024
The United Nations human rights office on Friday warned there was a risk of a serious rise in violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state, where it received "frightening and disturbing
June 10, 2024
Hundreds are feared dead after a massive landslide levelled dozens of homes and buried families alive in a remote village in northern Papua New
June 10, 2024
A group of prominent Malaysian civil society bodies have started a protest against a bid by a consortium including a firm in the process of being acquired by
June 10, 2024
When South Korea hosts the first trilateral summit with China and Japan in four years beginning on Sunday, the three
June 10, 2024
Students from Pakistan and other Asian countries are leaving Kyrgyzstan by the hundreds after an angry mob attacked their living quarters this month, although some hope to return
June 10, 2024
Japanese electric motor manufacturer Nidec Corp revised down two years of operating profit by about $67 million on Friday after determining that some sales were "recorded in an
June 10, 2024
As China staged a second day of "punishment" drills on Friday in response to Taiwan's new President Lai Ching-te, some residents of the democratically governed island
June 10, 2024
South Korea's military said on Friday it had detected signs in North Korea of possible preparations for a satellite launch in what would be the nuclear-armed North's effort to place
June 10, 2024
Singapore investigators examining flight SQ321 that was hit by severe turbulence have obtained data from the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, Singapore Transport
June 10, 2024
The Philippines has built a coastguard station in its northern islands near Taiwan, boosting its capacity to monitor an area where China has built up its military presence, National
June 10, 2024
Against a backdrop of K-pop performances and dance music, more than 2,000 unionised workers from Samsung Electronics gathered in Seoul on Friday, holding a rare rally
June 10, 2024
Inflation data from the U.S., the euro zone and Japan in the days ahead will guide investors' expectations over the scale and pace of interest rate changes to come in major economies.
June 12, 2024
The brother of former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has been ordered by a court to pay S$400,000 ($296,000) to two government ministers in a defamation
June 10, 2024
The situation in the Taiwan Strait, where China has carried out military exercises, is an "internal matter," Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said on Friday, declining
June 10, 2024
India's incoming government will be greeted with a $25 billion cheque from the central bank, giving it the option to either boost spending or
June 10, 2024
Tesla has cut output of its best-selling Model Y electric car by a double-digit percentage number at its Shanghai plant since March, according to industry data and a source.
June 10, 2024
Japanese factory output likely grew for a second straight month in April while retail sales picked up, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, highlighting budding
June 10, 2024
The Bank of Japan will decide to start tapering the size of its bond-buying by end-July, according to nearly two-thirds of economists polled by Reuters, while
June 10, 2024
Nvidia's most advanced AI chip it developed for the China market has got off to a weak start, with abundant supply forcing it to be priced below a rival chip from
June 10, 2024
Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said on Friday that China's rules about how its Coast Guard can operate in the South China Sea were a matter of international concern,
June 10, 2024
The U.N. human rights office has warned of “frightening and disturbing reports” about the impact of new violence in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine and new attacks on Rohingya civilians by the army and an ethnic armed group fighting it
May 24, 2024
All seven members of BTS are currently serving South Korea’s compulsory enlistment for men of a certain age
May 24, 2024
China’s latest artificial intelligence chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s doctrine in a stark reminder of the ideological parameters that Chinese AI models should abide by
May 24, 2024
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is expected to meet with his Chinese counterpart Admiral Dong Jun at a major defense conference in Singapore next week
May 24, 2024
Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo said on Friday that China had rejected entry to some shipments from the Central American nation, speculating that this could be due to
June 11, 2024
A Hong Kong protest anthem was removed by a UK digital music distributor from streaming platforms on Friday following a court injunction in the Chinese territory,
June 11, 2024
Japan stands ready to take appropriate action in the market "any time" to counter excessive moves in the yen, its top currency diplomat Masato Kanda said on
June 10, 2024
At least 11 people have died of suspected heat-related causes in western India and Pakistan also sweltered on Friday in extreme heat, while parts of Bangladesh and
June 11, 2024
Millions of Indians are voting in the next-to-last round of a grueling national election in the searing summer heat
May 25, 2024
An emergency convoy has delivered food, water and other provisions to stunned survivors of a landslide that devastated a remote village in the mountains of Papua New Guinea
May 25, 2024
Indian voters braved temperatures of nearly 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) in parts of the country as they headed to
July 02, 2024
China ended two days of war games around Taiwan in which it simulated attacks with bombers and practiced boarding ships, exercises that Taiwan condemned as "blatant
June 11, 2024
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is scheduled to make an official visit to Cambodia, one of China’s closest allies in Southeast Asia, after holding talks with his Chinese counterpart at an annual security conference in Singapore
May 25, 2024
Police in India say that at least 27 people including children have been killed in a major fire at an amusement park
May 25, 2024
Forty three people who were on board a Singapore Airlines flight that hit severe turbulence remain hospitalised in Bangkok four days after the emergency, a hospital in the Thai
June 11, 2024
Suhel Mansuri, who carries scars from Hindu-Muslim riots that killed dozens in his district of India's capital in 2020, says his vote on Saturday in national
June 11, 2024
More than 670 people are assumed to have died in Papua New Guinea's massive landslide, the U.N. migration agency estimated on Sunday as rescue efforts continued.
June 11, 2024
At least 24 people, including many children, died in a fire that broke out on Saturday evening in a family entertainment venue in the western Indian state
June 11, 2024
North Korea's defence ministry accused the United States and South Korea of ramping up reconnaissance activities around the inter-Korean border, warning that it will act if its
June 11, 2024
The Japanese and South Korean leaders have raised sensitive topics like Taiwan, North Korea and the South China Sea as well as ways to boost cooperation, when they individually met China’s premier
May 26, 2024
Chinese Premier Li Qiang agreed with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Sunday to launch a diplomatic and
June 11, 2024
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te extended goodwill towards and offered cooperation with China on Sunday following two days of Chinese war games near the island, as a
June 11, 2024
Taiwan's Nymphia Wind, the first East Asian to take the crown in RuPaul's Drag Race and an increasingly political figure, wowed hundreds of fans at a
June 11, 2024
The International Organization for Migration has increased its estimate of the death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea to more than 670
May 26, 2024
In Taiwan's Kinmen, less than an hour's boat ride from the Chinese cities of Xiamen and Quanzhou, bar owner Powei Lee draws crowds by blending the tiny island's battle-
June 11, 2024
Bangladesh has evacuated nearly 800,000 people from vulnerable areas as the country and neighboring India await the arrival of a severe cyclone that has formed over the Bay of Bengal
May 26, 2024
A delegation of U.S. lawmakers led by Michael McCaul, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is visiting Taiwan this week, the de facto U.S. embassy said on Sunday.
June 11, 2024
Chinese Premier Li Qiang told Samsung Chairman Jay Y.
June 11, 2024
Pakistani authorities have arrested 11 Islamist militants who were involved in the suicide bombing that killed five Chinese engineers in March in the north of the
June 11, 2024
Bangladesh and India braced on Sunday for cyclone Remal, the first of the year, as the storm with wind speeds of up to 120 kmh (75 mph)
June 11, 2024
North Korea has notified Japan it plans to launch a rocket carrying a satellite between May 27 and June 4, the Japan Coast Guard said on Monday, drawing a swift warning from
June 12, 2024North Korea has announced plans to launch a rocket apparently carrying its second military spy satellite in the coming days
May 26, 2024
Chinese Premier Li Qiang praised what he called a restart in relations with Japan and South Korea as he met their leaders for the first three-way talks in
June 12, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
June 11, 2024
Strong gales and heavy rain triggered by the first major cyclone of the year lashed the coastlines of
July 02, 2024
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will proceed cautiously with inflation-targeting frameworks, Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Monday, noting that some challenges are "uniquely difficult" for Japan
June 11, 2024
Papua New Guinea's massive landslide three days ago buried more than 2,000 people, the government said on Monday, as treacherous terrain impeded aid
July 02, 2024
A scarcity of low-risk assets in China's financial sector is obstructing the central bank's plans to make its monetary policy toolkit more
June 11, 2024
The weakening tropical storm Remal has flooded dozens of coastal villages and left nearly 30 million people without power in southern Bangladesh and eastern India
May 27, 2024
A Papua New Guinea government official has told the United Nations that more than 2,000 people are believed to have been buried alive by a landslide Friday
May 27, 2024
Shares have advanced in Europe and Asia ahead of Monday's Memorial Day holiday in the United States
May 27, 2024
A top Chinese Communist Party official, Liu Jianchao, met Vanuatu's Prime Minister Charlot Salwai on Monday on a visit to the Pacific Island nation that is being courted by Beijing
June 11, 2024Shares of China Evergrande New Energy Vehicle Group more than doubled on Monday as trade resumed after the company said liquidators had agreed on behalf of key shareholders to
June 11, 2024
A Hong Kong court on Monday adjourned a hearing on a petition seeking the liquidation of Kaisa Group until June 24, giving the embattled Chinese developer some respite
June 11, 2024
Courts in Thailand handed jail terms on Monday to an activist musician who set fire to a portrait of the king and to an opposition
June 12, 2024
An earthquake of 5.0 magnitude struck Muli county in China's Sichuan province, according to China Earthquake Networks Center on Monday. The quake hit at 11:07 a.m.
June 11, 2024Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, the country's top government spokesperson, said on Monday Tokyo had demanded via diplomatic channels in Beijing that North Korea
June 11, 2024Profits at China's industrial firms rose 4.3% in the first four months from the same period last year, official data showed on Monday.
June 11, 2024
A new South Korean stock market monitoring system to detect illegal short-selling is expected to be implemented from the first quarter of 2025, Lee Bok-hyun, governor of the
June 11, 2024A Thai court has sentenced a lawmaker from a progressive opposition party to two years in prison after finding her guilty of defaming the monarchy in a speech she made during a protest rally three years ago
May 27, 2024
China’s premier has agreed to revive three-way cooperation with South Korea and Japan in the face of shared challenges but issued a veiled rebuke against the two countries’ expanding security cooperation with the United States
May 26, 2024
The Papua New Guinea government said more than 2,000 people are believed to have been buried alive in a landslide in the South Pacific island nation
May 27, 2024
Indonesia's anti-trust agency said on Monday it is investigating the local units of e-commerce platforms Shopee and Lazada for suspected violations of anti-competition rules.
June 12, 2024
North Korea condemned China, Japan and South Korea on Monday for committing to denuclearise the Korean peninsula, describing their joint declaration
June 12, 2024
Embattled Chinese property developer China Vanke said on Monday it had completed the sale of a plot of land in Shenzhen for 2.24 billion yuan ($309.23
June 12, 2024
Russia has invited Afghanistan's Taliban to its biggest annual economic forum as Moscow moves to remove a ban on the Islamist movement, a senior Russian diplomat was quoted as
June 12, 2024
Japan's government upgraded its assessment of factory output for the first time in a year, saying in its monthly economic report that it showed signs of picking
June 12, 2024
A South Korean high court began on Monday hearing a prosecution appeal over a decision by a lower court to clear Samsung Electronics chairman Jay Y.
June 12, 2024
The leaders of South Korea, China and Japan on Monday issued a joint declaration covering cooperation in a range of areas from trade to climate change and ageing societies.
June 12, 2024
A senior U.S. lawmaker visiting Taipei said on Monday that weapons Taiwan had ordered are finally on their way, and that China's "intimidating" war games last week
June 12, 2024
The Philippines has protested China's imposition of a unilateral four-month long fishing ban in the South China Sea, its foreign ministry said on Monday.
June 12, 2024
AliExpress, an e-commerce site owned by Chinese giant Alibaba, has signed former England soccer captain David Beckham as a brand ambassador as it plays catch-up with
June 12, 2024
A Thai court on Monday sentenced activist musician Chaiamorn Kaewwiboonpan to four years in jail for insulting the monarchy and violations of the computer crimes act, local media
June 11, 2024
India's economy likely grew at its slowest pace in a year in the January-March quarter due to weak demand, according to a Reuters poll of economists who said the
June 11, 2024
North Korea says its attempt to put another spy satellite into orbit has failed
May 27, 2024
The nuclear envoys of South Korea, the United States and Japan during a phone call on Tuesday strongly condemned the latest attempt by North Korea to launch a satellite, Seoul's
June 12, 2024
Philippine authorities said at least seven people had been killed by tropical storm Ewiniar, which hit the country on the weekend, and President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Tuesday
June 12, 2024Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape is likely to face a no-confidence motion in parliament after the opposition party nominated Rainbo Paita, who defected
June 12, 2024
Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday he was concerned more about the negative aspects of the current weakness in the yen right now, reiterating Japan's warnings
June 12, 2024
Japanese corporate services prices in April rose at their fastest pace since early 2015, Bank of Japan data showed on Tuesday, boosted by labour costs in the services sector in a
July 02, 2024
Temperatures rose above 52 degrees Celsius (125.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh, the highest reading
July 02, 2024
North Korea's latest satellite launch exploded in a fireball before dropping into the Yellow Sea just minutes after lifting off, but analysts say the
June 12, 2024Sri Lanka's tea producers on Monday condemned a government order to increase wages by 70%, saying it would make their tea globally uncompetitive and reduce
June 12, 2024
North Korea said its attempt to launch a new military reconnaissance satellite ended in failure on Monday when a newly developed
June 12, 2024Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi returning to power for a rare third consecutive term will boost shares of defence, infrastructure, railway and capital
June 12, 2024
Five Pakistani soldiers were killed in gunbattles with Islamist militants in the country's northwest bordering Afghanistan on Monday, the Pakistan Army said.
June 12, 2024The Japanese government issued an emergency warning on Monday for residents in the south to take cover from the possible threat of a North Korean missile.
June 12, 2024Thailand plans stimulus measures in the short term to jumpstart its economy, which is expected to grow just 2.5% this year when it
June 12, 2024An Indian lawmaker allied with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party said he will return to India by Friday to face allegations of rape and sexual harassment made
June 12, 2024
China's latest steps to revive its struggling property market could pose risks to banks operating in lower-tier cities, S&P Global said on Monday.
June 12, 2024
China's commercial hub Shanghai has lowered the minimum downpayment ratios for home buyers and relaxed some home purchase restrictions, after the country lowered the national level
June 12, 2024
Brazil has overtaken Belgium as the largest export market for Chinese new energy vehicles, industry data showed, as Chinese carmakers increase sales to non-European markets amid
June 12, 2024
Thailand's economy is expected to grow 2.5% this year, but should be expanding at least 3.5% annually, its finance minister Pichai Chunhavajira said on Monday.
June 12, 2024
Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of Papua New Guinea’s mass-casualty disaster
May 28, 2024
Asian shares are mostly lower after a mixed session on Wall Street
May 28, 2024
China called for attacks on civilian ships in the Red Sea to end and for safe navigation there, when China Foreign Minister Wang Yi met his Yemen counterpart in Beijing on Tuesday.
June 12, 2024
Airfares in Europe and Asia are starting to plateau or fall in a sign that a prolonged post-COVID travel
July 02, 2024
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te thanked fighter pilots who had scrambled against China last week during its war games around the island, as he
June 12, 2024
China and the United States held consultations on maritime affairs in which both countries agreed to maintain dialogue and manage risks, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on
June 12, 2024
Assertions that all arrivals in China will face mobile telephone checks from July 1 are false, authorities said on Tuesday, dismissing them as distortions of the truth made by "
June 12, 2024
Papua New Guinea ordered thousands of residents to evacuate from the path of a still-active landslide on Tuesday after parts of a mountain collapsed
July 02, 2024
Sri Lanka's central bank held interest rates steady on Tuesday to ensure inflation pressures remain in check as authorities look to foster economic stability
June 12, 2024
A stone quarry has collapsed in India’s northeast due to heavy rain triggered by a tropical storm, killing 17 quarry workers and leaving 12 missing
May 28, 2024
A report by the United Nations says that as economies in Asia and the Pacific slow and grow older, countries need to do more to ensure that workers get the education, training and social safety nets needed to raise incomes and ensure social equity
May 28, 2024
Hong Kong police on Tuesday arrested six people, including a former organizer of the city’s decades-long annual vigil that commemorated China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown, for allegedly publishing seditious social media posts
May 28, 2024
Taiwan’s opposition-controlled legislature has passed changes that are seen as favoring China and diminishing the power of the island’s president
May 28, 2024
The operator of Japan’s destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has demonstrated how a remote-controlled robot would retrieve tiny bits of melted fuel debris from one of three damaged reactors later this year
May 28, 2024
China's BYD launched on Tuesday the latest version of a plug-in hybrid technology that improves fuel and cost savings, intensifying competition with the likes of Toyota and
July 02, 2024
Proxy advisory firms Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services have recommended Toyota Motor shareholders vote against re-electing Chairman Akio Toyoda at the Japanese
June 13, 2024
Hong Kong national security police arrested six people across the city on Tuesday under a new security law for alleged seditious intent, including
June 12, 2024
Property firm China Evergrande Group said on Tuesday its liquidators have made only "modest realisations" of the company's assets and were now seeking investors for restructuring.
June 12, 2024
Higher U.S. tariffs on medical gloves, syringes and face masks from China are unlikely to make U.S. producers more competitive,
June 12, 2024
Apple's smartphone shipments in China rose 52% in April from a year ago, extending a rebound seen in March, according to data from a research firm affiliated the Chinese government
June 13, 2024
Thousands of people protested outside Taiwan's parliament on Tuesday after it passed a reform package to increase oversight of the
June 13, 2024
United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan arrived in South Korea on Tuesday, where his plane was met by an honorary escort of four fighter jets
June 13, 2024
Thailand's government said on Tuesday it had approved longer visa stay periods for tourists, postgraduate students and remote workers, and better visa conditions for retirees, in a
June 12, 2024
Toyota Motor showcased next-generation engines on Tuesday that can be used in cars as varied as hybrids and those running on biofuel, as it targets tougher emissions standards and
June 12, 2024
North Korea said its attempt to launch a new military reconnaissance satellite ended in failure on Monday when a newly developed rocket engine exploded in flight.
June 12, 2024A new United Nations report says East and Southeast Asia are awash in record amounts of methamphetamine and other synthetic drugs
May 28, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said space reconnaissance capabilities are crucial for national self defence against enemy threats and the country will never give up the
June 13, 2024
For decades, Hong Kong's activists have been fighting for democracy
May 29, 2024
North Korea has flown hundreds of balloons carrying trash and manure toward South Korea
May 29, 2024
Verdicts have been handed down in Hong Kong’s largest national security case to date
May 29, 2024
Thai prosecutors say former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be indicted for defaming the monarchy, three months after he was freed on parole on other charges
May 29, 2024
Authorities in Papua New Guinea are searching for safer ground to relocate thousands of survivors at risk from a potential second landslide in the South Pacific country's highlands, while the arrival of heavy earth-moving equipment at the disaster site where hundreds are buried has been delayed
May 29, 2024
Officials say a speeding passenger bus fell off a highway into a ravine in southwest Pakistan, killing 28 people and injuring 20
May 29, 2024
Shares have retreated in Asia after U.S. stocks fell under the weight of higher yields in the bond market
May 29, 2024
The International Monetary Fund has upgraded its forecast for China's economy, while warning that reforms are needed to sustain growth
May 29, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
June 13, 2024
North Korea's rare swipe at China this week underscored how Beijing and Pyongyang do not entirely see eye-to-eye on the latter's illicit nuclear weapons arsenal,
June 12, 2024
Hong Kong's High Court is set hand down a verdict this week against 16 democrats in a landmark subversion trial that critics say could have major
June 12, 2024
A European private wealth manager in Hong Kong told me last week he recently got the catalyst he needed to land a Taiwanese billionaire's account: geopolitics.
June 12, 2024
North Korea sent hundreds of balloons carrying trash and excrement across the heavily fortified border to South Korea on Wednesday, calling them "gifts of
June 13, 2024
Families in Yambali village in Papua New Guinea were sleeping peacefully in their beds when a "mountain" of rubble buried them alive in a gigantic landslide, said a
June 12, 2024
Taiwan reported renewed Chinese military activity nearby on Wednesday, saying China's warships and warplanes were carrying out "joint combat readiness patrols", less
June 12, 2024
Thailand's attorney-general will indict former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra for allegedly insulting the monarchy, an official said
June 12, 2024
Vietnam's annual inflation rate edged up to 4.44% in May, official data showed on Wednesday, nearing the government's target ceiling of 4.5% for the year and a potential
June 13, 2024
Taiwan's cabinet will reject and send back for review legislation the opposition passed on Tuesday on parliamentary reforms that have brought tens of thousands onto the streets to
May 29, 2024
The European Commission's expected move to hike tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles is set to kick off a round of talks that Chinese
June 12, 2024
A Samsung Electronics union in South Korea will begin escalating strike action next week by staging the first ever walkout over demands
June 12, 2024
China stands ready to work with Estonia to cooperate on an investigation into a Chinese ship that Estonia suspects cut two of its subsea telecoms cables, the foreign ministry said
June 12, 2024The office of Indonesia's attorney general (AGO) has identified a former official in the mining ministry as a suspect in an investigation into illegal tin-mining, officials said on
June 12, 2024Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Wednesday new rules outlined by China's coast guard that could result in the detention of foreigners in the South China Sea were an
July 02, 2024
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape on Wednesday blamed "extraordinary rainfall" and changes to weather patterns for multiple disasters in
June 12, 2024
China's economy is set to grow 5% this year, after a "strong" first quarter, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday, upgrading its earlier forecast of 4.6%
June 12, 2024
South Korea and the United Arab Emirates signed a trade agreement at a summit on Wednesday to sharply cut import duties and forge closer business and
June 12, 2024
The U.S. has appointed a new representative to Taiwan as China boosts its threats against the self-ruled island following the election of a new president who wants the territory to maintain its de-facto independence
May 29, 2024About 6.5 million children in Afghanistan are forecast to experience crisis levels of hunger in 2024
May 29, 2024
China hits out at latest US effort to block Beijing’s access to chip technology
December 03, 2024
An Indian climber who was evacuated from Mount Everest after he fell ill last week has died, taking the number of deaths this season on the world’s highest peak
June 12, 2024
China and Japan have agreed to resume regular talks between their ruling parties for the first time in six years, officials from Japan's coalition government said
June 12, 2024
Thailand's new finance minister has caught investor attention with a more conciliatory approach to the central bank, opening a window for policy
June 14, 2024
A Pakistani court on Wednesday postponed a ruling on an appeal by former prime minister Imran Khan and his third wife against their conviction for unlawful marriage, their lawyer
June 12, 2024
China's Geely Holding Group on Wednesday said it would launch a series of hybrid models in the first half of next year equipped with its next-generation, more fuel-efficient
June 12, 2024
Two former Japanese defence ministers are among a group of lawmakers planning to form a nonpartisan parliamentary grouping to urge the government to look into unidentified flying
June 12, 2024Thailand's central bank could adjust interest rates if the outlook for the economy and inflation changes, but rates are not a key factor for boosting the economy, a deputy governor
June 12, 2024
North Korea fired a salvo of at least 10 short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast, South Korea's military said on Thursday, calling
June 14, 2024
The United States on Wednesday accused China's leadership of supporting Russia's war in Ukraine and warned that Beijing could face further sanctions in response from the United
June 14, 2024
Four Pakistanis were killed and two were injured late on Tuesday night, when Iranian forces opened fire in the restive southwestern province of Balochistan in Pakistan, officials
June 14, 2024North Korea has fired a barrage of ballistic missiles toward its eastern sea, according to South Korea’s military, days after its failed spy satellite launch drew condemnation
May 29, 2024
Fourteen Hong Kong pro-democracy activists were found guilty and two were acquitted on Thursday in a landmark subversion trial that critics say
July 02, 2024
China has lifted its import bans on five major Australian beef producers effective immediately, the Australian government said on Thursday, in the latest sign of improving relations
June 14, 2024
The United Nations Security Council will meet publicly on Friday over North Korea's failed attempt to launch a new military reconnaissance satellite,
June 14, 2024A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
June 13, 2024
Fourteen pro-democracy activists have been convicted in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case by a court that said their plan to effect change through an unofficial primary election would have undermined the government’s authority and created a constitutional crisis
May 30, 2024
China's manufacturing activity in May likely grew at a similar pace to the previous month when it barely managed to stay expansionary, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday,
June 13, 2024
Google will invest $2 billion in Malaysia to develop its first data centre and Google Cloud region in the country, the unit of Alphabet said on Thursday, the latest in a wave
June 14, 2024
Thailand's manufacturing production index unexpectedly rose 3.43% in April from a year earlier, increasing for the first time in 19 months, helped by higher exports and tourism,
June 14, 2024
India's Agnikul Cosmos launched its Agnibaan rocket for the first time on Thursday, powered by the only Indian rocket engine to use both gas and liquid fuel in the country's
June 14, 2024
Toyota Motor's April global sales and production fell from a year earlier, hurt by an intense price war in China and a decline in Japan after a production stoppage of some models and
July 02, 2024
Myanmar's ruling junta has lost control over vast tracts of territory, including access to much of its international borders, allowing ethnic armed groups to expand and consolidate regions
June 14, 2024
China's military achieved its "expected goals" during two days of drills around Taiwan last week but is prepared for further action if
June 13, 2024
Starting in the 1980s, European automakers steadily conquered China, racking up millions in sales with little local competition.
June 14, 2024
Malaysia's government will allow all vessels conducting repairs on undersea cables to carry out work in its waters from June 1, after it had said earlier this year it would
June 13, 2024Fourteen Hong Kong pro-democracy activists were convicted on Thursday of conspiracy to commit subversion under a China-imposed security law,
June 14, 2024
Owen Chow has spent most of the past four years in prison and in repeated court hearings, fighting charges carrying a possible life sentence - a
June 14, 2024
Monsoon rains hit the coast of India's southernmost state of Kerala on Thursday, two days sooner than expected, weather officials
June 17, 2024
Chinese listed companies are rushing to buy back shares and lift dividends as they respond to regulators' calls that echo reform efforts
June 14, 2024
Traumatized survivors of Papua New Guinea’s massive landslide are hesitating to move to safer ground as the South Pacific island nation’s authorities prepare to use heavy machinery to clear debris and risk triggering another landslide
May 30, 2024
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) said a Chinese national was arrested in an international operation on charges of creating and using malware that was used in cyber
June 16, 2024
Taiwan's trade-reliant economy is expected to grow at a faster pace in 2024 than previously forecast, owing to high demand for artificial intelligence (
June 14, 2024
The fraught relationship between China and the United States is expected to loom over Asia's top security meeting this week, as are the wars in Ukraine and Gaza,
June 14, 2024
China's Commerce Ministry has announced it will restrict exports of some aviation and aerospace-related equipment and technology beginning July 1
May 30, 2024
A South Korean court ruled SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won must pay more than $1 billion to his estranged wife as part of their planned divorce,
June 14, 2024
Russia may take extra steps in the area of nuclear deterrence if the United States deploys intermediate and short-range missiles in Europe and Asia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
June 14, 2024
South Korea said on Thursday its medical schools will accept almost 1,500 additional students next year, pressing ahead with an admissions hike that has caused trainee
June 14, 2024
Global fund launches in China have hit a record as a weakening yuan and fragile economy drive demand for foreign assets, in the latest sign of low
June 14, 2024
The winners of India's April 19-June 1 general election are expected to form a new government by the middle of June after votes are counted on June 4.
June 18, 2024
India's Narendra Modi is set to be sworn in as prime minister on Sunday for a third straight term, a rare feat that will also come with new challenges as the populist leader is forced to
July 02, 2024
China's Defense Ministry has denounced U.S. and U.K. affirmations of support for Taiwan's newly elected government shortly after the island that Beijing claims sovereignty over freely chose its new leaders
May 30, 2024Colombo and Moscow are starting talks to resolve the issue of Sri Lankans fighting alongside Russians in the war against Ukraine, after at least 16 people were reported missing in action
May 30, 2024
North Korea floated huge balloons to dump trashes like manures, cigarette butts, scrap cloth pieces and waste batteries across rival South Korea
May 30, 2024
China's defence ministry on Thursday strongly condemned the deployment of a U.S. intermediate range missile system in the northern
June 17, 2024
A bus carrying pilgrims fell into a deep gorge in the northern Indian federal territory of Jammu on Thursday, killing at least 21 people and injuring dozens, authorities
June 17, 2024Pakistan's jailed former prime minister Imran Khan said on Thursday February's national election was stolen from his party, describing it as the "biggest robbery of a public
June 14, 2024
Indonesia's Supreme Court has approved regulatory changes on the age of candidates in regional elections, the court said on Thursday, amid
June 14, 2024Tesla is preparing to register its 'Full Self-Driving' software with authorities in China in the run up to its planned rollout of the technologically advanced feature this year, three
June 14, 2024
The United States and China have significantly increased the volume of military exercises across Asia amid roiling regional tensions in
June 17, 2024
North Korea said on Friday it had fired 18 short-range ballistic missiles during a drill as a demonstration of its willingness to launch a pre-emptive strike against
June 17, 2024
Indian police arrested a lawmaker from a key ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday, in connection with rape and sexual harassment cases
June 16, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
June 16, 2024
Japan solidified its status as the world's largest creditor last year as the country's net international investment position grew to a new all-time high
June 15, 2024
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has met with his Chinese counterpart as the two countries seek to repair lines of communications between their militaries that could be critical as tensions continue to rise between them in the Indo-Pacific region
May 31, 2024
Narendra Modi swept to power a decade ago on promises to transform India’s economy, and as he seeks a third term as prime minister, it would be hard to argue he hasn’t made strides
May 31, 2024
At least 33 people, including election officials on duty, died of suspected heatstroke in India's states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha on Friday,
July 02, 2024
Japan is expected to post its first year-on-year rise in household spending in 14 months, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, although the tepid growth is likely to highlight persistent
June 17, 2024
The U.S. and Chinese defence chiefs locked horns on Taiwan in their first face-to-face meeting in two years on Friday, while Philippines President
July 02, 2024
China will reinstate tariffs next month on 134 items it imports from Taiwan, after the Ministry of Finance said it would suspend concessions on the items under a trade deal
June 17, 2024
China will not attend a Ukraine peace conference in Switzerland next month because it does not meet its expectations, which include both Russia and
June 18, 2024China has more powerful countermeasures, if the United States continues to violate and endanger the country's sovereignty and security interests on core issues, or squeeze the
June 17, 2024
A jailed Sikh separatist leader is contesting India's general election from prison and drawing good support, his campaign managers said, in what could
June 17, 2024
A Chinese nonprofit group with ties to the nation's government is coordinating efforts among China's biggest technology firms to develop open-source software with
June 17, 2024Core consumer inflation in Japan's capital accelerated in May on rising electricity bills but price growth excluding the effect of fuel eased,
June 17, 2024
India's economy is expected to have grown at a slower pace in the January-March quarter than the previous three months, dampened by a moderation in manufacturing
June 17, 2024
Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has visited the site of a major landslide that is estimated to have buried hundreds of villagers in the South Pacific island nation’s mountainous interior a week ago
May 31, 2024
After days of barreling along the huge waves of Tahiti’s island paradise, French Polynesian surfer Vahine Fierro has even more reason to look forward to this summer’s Olympics
May 31, 2024
Russia's small neighbours on Friday lobbied the West at the Shangri-La Dialogue for arms production, spending and military planning to protect against Russian
June 17, 2024China will control exports of some aviation and space components from July 1, its commerce ministry announced on Thursday, citing a need to protect the country's
June 17, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will announce a new economic and fiscal plan for the next six years on Tuesday aimed at boosting economic growth, two
June 17, 2024
Nissan Motor paid former Chief Operating Officer Ashwani Gupta $3.7 million in compensation following his sudden departure last year, the Japanese automaker disclosed in a
June 17, 2024
Hong Kong's April retail sales fell 14.7% from a year earlier, partly due to a drop in visitor spending and a surge in outbound trips during the Easter holidays, government data
June 17, 2024
Papua New Guinea (PNG) Prime Minister James Marape on Friday made his first visit to a remote village hit by a deadly landslide last week and thanked international aid donors for
June 17, 2024
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will visit China from June 4 to 8 on the invitation of President Xi Jinping, Pakistan's foreign ministry said on Friday.
June 17, 2024
Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun and United States Defense Minister Lloyd Austin held a constructive meeting in Singapore on Friday, including talks on Taiwan, the war between
June 17, 2024
Australia, Britain, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore have agreed to stage more complex military drills in the region this year involving drones, fifth-generation fighter planes
June 17, 2024
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June 17, 2024
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud where the two exchanged views on various subjects including the Ukraine crisis,
June 17, 2024
Soaring temperatures in India's capital have proven to be too much for some courts and are putting to the test a law in place since 1961 that requires lawyers
June 17, 2024
The Bank of Japan must steadily raise interest rates to guard against the risk of inflation accelerating well above its 2% target, said Takeo Hoshi,
June 17, 2024
The United States has expressed its deep concerns about the convictions of 14 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong under a Beijing-imposed national security law
May 31, 2024
Officials in India say a scorching heat wave has killed at least 14 people, including 10 election officials, with temperatures soaring up to 49.9 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) in parts of the country this week
May 31, 2024
Officials say Pakistani police working closely with Interpol have raided a home in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir and arrested a Pakistani woman convicted in Italy of murdering her daughter
May 31, 2024The United States is imposing new visa restrictions on Chinese and Hong Kong officials over guilty verdicts in the National Security Law trial of pro-democracy organizers in Hong
June 17, 2024
Officials say a climber from Malaysia who was stranded for three days near the top of North America’s tallest mountain has been rescued but his partner is dead
May 31, 2024
China's first food security law aimed at achieving "absolute self-sufficiency" in staple grains came into effect on Saturday, reinforcing efforts by the world's
June 18, 2024
The United States and other nations could take steps against Chinese firms and financial institutions over Beijing's backing for the Russian war
June 18, 2024
India’s 6-week-long national election came to an end Saturday with most exit polls projecting Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to extend his decade in power with a third consecutive term
June 01, 2024
South Korean defence minister Shin Won-sik said on Saturday that more evidence suggests weapons used by Russia in the war in Ukraine were illegally imported from North Korea.
June 18, 2024
The United States is unlikely to help South Korea build nuclear-powered submarines at the moment, as it is stretched by AUKUS commitments to Australia, U.S.
June 18, 2024
South Korea's exports rose for an eighth straight month in May, led by robust chip sales though overall growth in shipments lagged market expectations, trade data showed on Saturday.
June 18, 2024
A Taliban official said that at least 20 people were killed as a river ferry sank in eastern Afghanistan
June 01, 2024
Tin Oo, a towering figure in Myanmar's pro-democracy movement and close ally of detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, died on Saturday at age 97, political associates and close friends
June 18, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy will address the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Sunday, the organisers of the security conference said.
June 18, 2024
Canada warned China against meddling in its elections during a rare meeting of the countries' defence chiefs, its defence minister said on Saturday.
June 18, 2024
South Korea’s military says North Korea launched more trash-carrying balloons toward South Korea, following a similar campaign earlier in the week as it continues to retaliate against activists flying anti-North Korean propaganda leaflets across the border
June 01, 2024
Seoul warned the public on Saturday to avoid more balloons sent from North Korea and to report them to the military or police.
June 18, 2024
Rainbow flags filled the streets of Bangkok on Saturday at the start of Pride Month as Thailand inches closer to recognising same-sex marriages.
July 02, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have to rely on regional allies to form the next government after his party failed to win a majority on its own, according to trends from
June 20, 2024
A Chinese spacecraft has landed on the moon’s far side to collect soil and rock samples that could provide insights into differences between the less-explored region and the better-known near side
June 01, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told the Shangri-La Dialogue on Sunday that diplomacy - in the form of a peace summit later this month - was the best way
July 02, 2024
China's defence chief Dong Jun slammed "separatists" in Taiwan in an acerbic address on Sunday at the Shangri-La Dialogue, hours before Ukrainian President Volodmyr
June 18, 2024
China’s defense minister has acknowledged the importance of newly renewed military-to-military communications with the United States as tensions escalate in the Asia-Pacific, while at the same time accusing Washington of causing the friction with its support for Taiwan and the Philippines
June 02, 2024
The prospect of peaceful "reunification" with Taiwan is being increasingly "eroded" by Taiwanese separatists and external forces, Chinese Defence
June 18, 2024
Australia has asked for military talks with China and is comfortable growing closer to the Philippines, Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said on Sunday at
June 18, 2024
China and the United Arab Emirates have emphasised a readiness to exchange experiences on defence and security, with a view to upgrading capacities of military personnel and
June 18, 2024North Korea said on Sunday it would stop sending balloons carrying trash over the border to South Korea but vowed to resume the practice if anti-North Korean leaflets
July 02, 2024
North Korea says it will stop sending trash-carrying balloons into South Korea, claiming that its campaign left the South Koreans with “enough experience of how much unpleasant they feel.”
June 02, 2024
India will hike road toll charges across the country by 3-5% from Monday, officials said, after putting the annual increase on hold in April due to the country's
June 18, 2024
The United States, Japan and South Korea agreed to hold new trilateral joint exercises this summer, a joint statement issued by U.S Department of Defense said on Sunday, after
June 18, 2024
Iran's foreign ministry has summoned the Chinese ambassador in Tehran to protest about a China-UAE statement related to Iran's sovereignty over three Islands also claimed by the UAE,
June 18, 2024Chinese state media said on Sunday that personnel on a Philippine ship pointed guns at China's Coast Guard in disputed waters of the South China Sea last month.
June 18, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's unscheduled appearance at Asia's biggest security conference dominated proceedings on Sunday after
July 02, 2024
The chief minister of India's capital New Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, surrendered to prison authorities on Sunday as the interim bail granted by the country's top court in a
June 18, 2024
Earthquakes have again struck Japan’s north-central region of Ishikawa that is still recovering from the destruction left by a powerful quake on Jan. 1
June 02, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with the Philippine president on a rare Asian trip to urge regional leaders to attend a Swiss-organized peace summit on the war in Ukraine that he accuses Russia, with China’s help, of trying to undermine
June 03, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy thanked his Philippine counterpart on Monday for Manila's participation in a high-level peace summit
July 02, 2024
Japanese companies raised spending on plant and equipment in January-March, helped by demand for automobiles and labour-saving investment and suggesting the
June 18, 2024
China has quashed large-scale commemorations of Tuesday's 35th anniversary of Beijing's Tiananmen Square crackdown within its borders
June 03, 2024
China's factory activity grew the fastest in about two years in May due to production gains and new orders, particularly at smaller firms, a private sector survey showed on Monday,
June 18, 2024
India's general election, with nearly a billion eligible voters, ended on Saturday.
June 18, 2024
South Korea's factory activity expanded in May at the fastest pace in two years on stronger growth in output and orders thanks to broadening global demand, a private-
June 18, 2024
Japan's factory activity expanded for the first time in a year in May, a private-sector survey showed on Monday, but overall growth was modest and demand was still subdued while a
June 18, 2024
China has accused the British foreign intelligence service MI6 of recruiting two staff members from unnamed Chinese central state bodies as spies for the British government, its
June 19, 2024More than a year after China pledged to smoothen the process for offshore listings, firms are reeling from a regulatory logjam
June 18, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
June 18, 2024
Asian shares have retreated after a report showed that U.S. manufacturing contracted in May
June 03, 2024
South Korea says it’ll suspend a rapprochement deal with North Korea to punish it over its launches of trash-carrying balloons
June 03, 2024
Pakistani police say gunmen opened fire on polio workers in the country's northwest, killing a police officer assigned to protect them
June 03, 2024
A safety test scandal at Japanese automakers widened on Monday, with Toyota Motor and Mazda both halting shipments of some vehicles after Japan's transport
July 02, 2024
India's Election Commission said on Monday a record-breaking 642 million voters cast their ballots in the general election that concluded on June 1
June 19, 2024
Bank Indonesia (BI) is not looking at an across-the-board cut in the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for banks even as it expands a scheme offering relief for lending to certain
June 19, 2024
China held its stance on three disputed islands in the Gulf on Monday despite Tehran's anger at Beijing for describing the Iran-controlled islands as a matter to be resolved with
June 19, 2024
The U.S.-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework is holding a ministerial meeting this week in Singapore, including major firms joining a "Clean Economy"
June 19, 2024
Maersk faces significant terminal congestion in Mediterranean and Asian ports, causing substantial delays in its vessel schedule, the Danish shipping group said in a statement on
June 20, 2024
Japan's government will finalise this year's long-term fiscal and economic roadmap as early as June 21, three government and ruling party sources told Reuters on Monday.
June 18, 2024
Thai entertainment platform GMM Music on Monday said Tencent and Tencent Music Entertainment will acquire a 10% stake in the company for $70 million, solidifying its spin-off plan.
June 18, 2024
Pakistan's consumer price index (CPI) in May rose 11.8% from a year earlier, data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics showed on Monday, the lowest reading in 30 months and
June 18, 2024
South Korea plans to suspend a military agreement signed with North Korea in 2018 aimed at easing tensions, the presidential office said on Monday, after Seoul warned of a strong
June 18, 2024
India's manufacturing growth slowed to a three-month low in May as a heatwave prompted some companies to reduce working hours, but factory activity remained
June 18, 2024
Commuters at Tokyo’s Shimbashi Station were greeted with a special edition of the Yomiuri newspaper
June 03, 2024
A high court in Pakistan overturned jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan's conviction on charges of leaking state secrets, his lawyer and his
June 19, 2024
The alert level has been raised at a volcano in the central Philippines after it erupted, sending a 5-kilometre (3.1-miles) high ash cloud into the sky, the country's seismology
June 19, 2024South Korea plans to convene in mid-June a public United Nations Security Council meeting on human rights abuses in North Korea, Seoul's U.N. envoy said
June 20, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi looked set on Tuesday to retain power at the head of a ruling coalition but his Hindu nationalist
July 02, 2024
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is making final arrangements not to call a snap election during the current parliament session ending June 23, the Asahi daily reported on Tuesday
June 20, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets. Asian markets could be in for a choppy ride on Tuesday, with investors unsure whether to interpret Monday's steep fall in U.S.
July 02, 2024
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s National Democratic Alliance coalition has won a majority in parliament, according to official results from India’s Election Commission
June 03, 2024
A female-led group of forest rangers in Indonesia are defying social norms to lead patrols in the jungle to combat deforestation
June 04, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s coalition has won a majority in parliament in the country's staggered, six-week election
June 04, 2024
Japanese transport ministry officials launched an on-site investigation at Toyota Motor's headquarters on Tuesday after irregularities were found in its
July 02, 2024
Hong Kong police detained several people and Chinese authorities restricted access to Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Tuesday on the 35th
June 20, 2024
Philippine troops stationed on a warship grounded on a disputed South China Sea shoal held on to their weapons after Chinese coast guard boats came very close to the
June 20, 2024
Tuesday marks the 35th anniversary of China's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in and around central Beijing's Tiananmen Square, when Chinese troops opened fire on their own
June 20, 2024Taiwan President Lai Ching-te on Tuesday said he will work hard to make historical memory last forever and reach out to everyone who cares about Chinese democracy, on the 35th
June 20, 2024
Japan's government will warn of the pain a weak yen may inflict on households in this year's long-term economic policy roadmap, a draft seen by Reuters showed, as
June 20, 2024
Hong Kong artist Kacey Wong is striving to keep alive the memory of China's June 4 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators from his adopted home of
June 20, 2024
Philippine authorities ordered the evacuation of residents living near a volcano in central Philippines on Tuesday following an eruption that sent a five km (
June 20, 2024Trump again vows to block Japanese firm’s controversial takeover of US Steel
December 03, 2024
South Korea have taken steps to suspend a contentious military agreement with North Korea and resume front-line military activities
June 04, 2024
South Korea's president says his country will expand development aid to Africa and pursue deeper cooperation with the region of 1.3 billion people on critical minerals and technology
June 04, 2024
Security in Beijing is tight around Tiananmen Square as China marks 35 years since a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests
June 04, 2024
Indian stocks suffered their worst intraday fall since March 2020 on Tuesday and foreign investors sold the most on record, as vote
June 20, 2024
South Korea's military on Tuesday said it would resume all military activities along the demarcation line separating the two Koreas and the North West Islands after suspending an
June 20, 2024
Vietnam's central bank lent another $1.2 billion to ailing Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank over the last two months, according to a bank document seen by
June 20, 2024
Chinese policymakers last month unveiled a slew of support measures for the property sector, including a nod to local governments to buy
June 20, 2024
A plunge in China's new housing construction is fuelling hopes the battered property sector is finally coming to terms with chronic oversupply, but a
June 20, 2024
Thailand's cabinet on Tuesday approved tax measures to boost domestic tourism during the low season, Deputy Finance Minister Paopoom Rojanasakul said.
June 20, 2024
Myanmar's junta is cracking down on gold and foreign exchange traders and agents selling foreign real estate, with 35 arrests announced in the last two days as part of efforts to stabilise
June 20, 2024
Indonesia's Mount Ibu volcano erupted on Tuesday, spewing thick columns of grey ash five km (three miles) into the sky, the volcanology agency said, but there were no immediate
July 02, 2024
Asian shares are mixed as investors weighed data highlighting a slowing U.S. economy that offers both upsides and downsides for Wall Street
June 04, 2024
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has met with Cambodian officials to discuss a possible resumption of joint military exercises, suggesting the beginning of a thaw in relations between the countries that have been strained over Cambodia’s growing closeness with China
June 04, 2024
Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Ryozo Himino said the central bank must be "very vigilant" to the impact the yen's moves could have on the economy, suggesting the
June 20, 2024
A group of creditors of China South City has filed a lawsuit in Hong Kong against the developer's biggest state-owned shareholder to recover $1.4 billion, according to
June 20, 2024
China has granted approval to a first group of nine automakers to carry out tests on vehicles with advanced autonomous driving technologies on public roads, as part of a plan to
June 20, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is likely to win a majority in parliament, early vote counting showed on Tuesday, but well short of a landslide
July 02, 2024
Emerging market stocks looked on course for their steepest fall in seven weeks on Tuesday, with Indian shares slumping on nervousness around election results, while
June 20, 2024
Airline Cathay Pacific is looking to add more destinations on China's Belt and Road project, CEO Ronald Lam said on Sunday, after a new route to Riyadh starts up
June 20, 2024
Sales of Tesla's China-made electric vehicles dropped 6.6% from a year earlier to 72,573 units in May, extending a year-on-year decline for a second month, data from the China
June 20, 2024
Airbus SE is negotiating a major sale of A330neo aircraft to China, with some of the largest Chinese airlines considering buying more than 100 of the upgraded A330 models, Bloomberg News
June 20, 2024
Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, mocked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his supporters for a decade as an entitled dynast, marked a stunning comeback
June 21, 2024
As India counts over 640 million votes in the world's largest election that began on April 19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's alliance looks set to clinch a majority but his
June 20, 2024
India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party conceded defeat on Tuesday in a constituency where the inauguration of a grand Hindu temple just months
June 20, 2024
Popular but polarizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has advanced Hindu nationalism in India is returning for a third consecutive term in office after claiming victory in a general election that was seen as a referendum on his decade in power
June 04, 2024
A clobbering for South Africa's, Mexico's and even India's heavyweight markets in recent days has proved without doubt that politics can still deliver an unexpected
June 21, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida instructed his government to compile a long-term economic and fiscal plan on Tuesday, drawing a line under nearly two decades of falling prices
June 20, 2024
Members of the U.S. Congress say the ruling Chinese Communist Party that sent in tanks against peaceful student protesters 35 years ago in the heart of Beijing is as ruthless and suppressive today as it was in 1989
June 04, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
June 20, 2024
Some Chinese AI chip companies are now designing less powerful processors to retain access to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) production in the face
June 20, 2024
Asian stocks are higher after Wall Street barreled to new records as the frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology kept sending stocks higher
June 05, 2024
South Korea says the U.S. has flown a long-range B-1B bomber over the Korean Peninsula for its first precision-guided bombing drill with the South in seven years
June 05, 2024
Indonesia's central bank will continue to intervene in the foreign exchange market to stabilise the rupiah, its governor said on Wednesday, adding that the
June 21, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's National Democratic Alliance (NDA) formally named him on Wednesday to lead
June 21, 2024
The narrower margin of victory for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's alliance in elections will forestall reforms that could have potentially facilitated
June 21, 2024
China's services activity in May accelerated at the quickest pace in 10 months while staffing levels expanded for the first time since January, a private sector survey showed on
June 21, 2024
Electric vehicle maker Nio has won approval to build a third factory in China that would boost its total approved production capacity to 1 million cars, almost at par with Tesla's
June 21, 2024
Philippine annual inflation quickened for a fourth straight month in May due largely to the faster pace of increases in housing, utility and
June 21, 2024
Australia's economy slowed to a crawl in the March quarter as high borrowing costs and still-elevated inflation put the brakes on consumer spending, even as the
June 21, 2024
When Ou Yangyun travelled to the Chinese city of Zhengzhou in February to demand recompense after his bank account containing tens of thousands of dollars was frozen, his family
June 21, 2024
Japan's inflation-adjusted real wages fell in April from a year earlier but slowed the pace of decline as the Bank of Japan looks for early signs of achieving a
June 21, 2024
A gunshot rang out on a recent morning in a meadow in northern Japan.
December 03, 2024
For the first time since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party swept to power in 2014, the party did not secure a majority on its own in 2024 national election
June 05, 2024
Election results in Mexico, South Africa and India jolted currencies and stocks alike, a stark reminder that politics still matter for markets in a
June 21, 2024
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, aged 75, turned back the clock to win a bronze medal in the shot put at the Oceania athletics championships on Wednesday.
June 21, 2024
China's CITIC Securities is cutting the base salary of more than 100 bankers at its offshore platform CLSA amid a drop in deal making and pressure to narrow the pay
June 21, 2024
Money managers should look beyond the United States and are worried that rivalry with China could lead to governments questioning their investment decisions, top investor Ray
June 21, 2024Scenic park operators in China's Henan province were forced to acknowledge that the country's highest waterfall got a helping hand from a pipe due to a lack of rainfall.
June 21, 2024Aita Prasad Gurung dangled off a cliff in Nepal, carefully manipulating a long pole with a blade at its end to cut away chunks of
June 22, 2024
China's exports likely grew more quickly and for a second month in May thanks to improving overseas demand, giving officials some comfort as they navigate numerous
June 21, 2024
When North Korea sent hundreds of balloons carrying trash over the border to South Korea last week, the move sparked emergency alerts and
June 21, 2024
The Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges are considering suspending certain value-added market data feeds to institutions such as computer-driven quant funds, two sources said in
June 21, 2024
India's main opposition Congress party bagged both parliamentary seats in strife-torn Manipur in the general election as the north-eastern state voted out
June 21, 2024
India's government bonds will continue to attract foreign flows even as a narrower-than-expected victory margin for Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led alliance
June 21, 2024
Since coming to power a decade ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been known for big, bold and often snap decisions
June 05, 2024
The Japanese government data shows the country's birth rate fell to a new low for the eighth straight year in 2023
June 05, 2024
President Joe Biden on Wednesday congratulated Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a call for his election victory, and
June 23, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin had a phone call on Wednesday with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the TASS state news agency reported.
June 21, 2024
The Pacific island nation of Palau expects China to attempt to meddle in a national election later this year over its recognition of Taiwan, President Surangel
June 21, 2024
Indonesia's President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said on Wednesday he plans to start working from the new capital city next month amid concerns over the future of the project following
June 21, 2024
Exit polls could not accurately capture discontent among the social and economic castes that are ranked lower in India in key states, resulting in an
June 21, 2024
A former member of the opposition Congress and an on-and-off ally of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi could decide the shape and stability of the next
June 21, 2024
Peru's President Dina Boluarte will travel to China this month to meet with her Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and leaders from mining, technology and transportation firms after the
June 22, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets. So much for 'bad news is bad news'.
June 22, 2024
A South Korean activists’ group has flown large balloons carrying propaganda leaflets toward North Korea, which has threatened to send more balloons with manure and trash across the border in response
June 06, 2024
At least six crewmembers of a fishing boat died while six others were rescued when an explosion and a fire hit the vessel at sea off a central Philippine province
June 06, 2024
India’s bruised and battered opposition was largely written off in the lead-up to its national election as too weak to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist governing party
June 06, 2024
Nepal's abundant hydroelectric power is helping the Himalayan nation cut its oil imports and clean up its air, thanks to a boom in sales of electric vehicles
June 06, 2024
Called “Tokyo Futari Story,” the city hall’s new site is just that: An effort to create couples, “futari,” in a country where it is increasingly common to be “hitori,” or alone
June 06, 2024
Asian stocks are mixed after a steady Thursday on Wall Street as markets anticipate the key U.S. jobs data that will be revealed later in the day
June 06, 2024
A court in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok has begun the trial of an American soldier arrested earlier this year on charges of stealing
June 06, 2024
Chinese electric vehicle maker Nio said on Thursday it expected deliveries in the second quarter to more than double from a year earlier to between 54,000 and 56,000.
June 23, 2024
Employees of drugmaker WuXi AppTec, under U.S. scrutiny for its links to the Chinese military, co-invented altitude sickness treatments
June 24, 2024
Regional parties in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's alliance demanded on Thursday more funds for their
July 02, 2024
At least nine Indian trekkers died in the Himalayas after getting trapped during a blizzard, authorities said on Thursday, as rescue teams airlifted their bodies and five
June 23, 2024More than 500 people from sea-faring communities around the coast of Malaysia's Sabah state have been evicted from their homes this week as part of a
June 23, 2024Indonesia's parliament on Thursday approved a proposal to accept a South Korean donation of a corvette for its navy, despite concern from its defence committee that the ageing
June 23, 2024
China never makes use of subsidies for electric vehicles that have been prohibited by the World Trade Organization, a spokesperson for its foreign ministry said on Thursday.
June 23, 2024
Rescue efforts at the site of a landslide in Papua New Guinea are due to end on Thursday, two weeks after part of a mountain collapsed onto a remote village, a United Nations
June 23, 2024
Emerging Asian equity markets faced a second month of foreign outflows in May as robust U.S. economic data fuelled skepticism over Federal Reserve rate cuts.
June 23, 2024
The high level of bipartisan political support for Taiwan in the United States gives hope eventually a free trade deal could be signed, especially given progress on current talks,
June 23, 2024
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said the central bank should reduce its huge bond purchases as it moves toward an exit from massive monetary stimulus, reinforcing his
June 23, 2024
KKR, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and the Indo-Pacific Partnership for Prosperity have formed a coalition to invest $25 billion in infrastructure in the Indo-Pacific
June 23, 2024
Vietnam real estate tycoon Truong My Lan, sentenced to death in the country's largest-ever financial fraud case, had illegally transferred money abroad, according to police, with
June 23, 2024
Embattled Country Garden said in a filing on Thursday the Hong Kong High Court had further adjourned a hearing of a petition seeking liquidation of the Chinese property developer
June 24, 2024
An activist group in South Korea said on Thursday it had flown balloons into North Korea carrying leaflets criticising leader Kim Jong Un, just days after Pyongyang
June 23, 2024Indonesia's Mount Ibu volcano erupted again on Thursday, firing red bright lava and rocks into the night sky and triggering a spectacular display of volcanic lightning, the
June 23, 2024When Costco Wholesale opened its warehouse in a rural Japanese town not far from Tokyo last year offering hundreds of jobs at eye-popping pay, a nearby
June 24, 2024
Saudia Group is in talks with Airbus and Boeing over ordering wide-body jets to increase its capacity as planemakers face constraints in
June 24, 2024
Two British judges have resigned from Hong Kong's top court, about a week after a landmark verdict that convicted 14 prominent
June 24, 2024
Scientists have traced the ancestry of the modern horse to a lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago and quickly became dominant across Eurasia
June 06, 2024
Pakistan's government submitted to the Supreme Court on Thursday details of the living conditions of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, seeking to rebuff his
June 24, 2024
China's securities watchdog does not expect a near-term spike in delistings, it said on Thursday, after investors dumped shares in small-cap companies on fears they could be
June 24, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
June 24, 2024
Two British judges have resigned from Hong Kong’s top court, deepening worries over the city’s rule of law under a Beijing-imposed national security law
June 06, 2024
Japan's Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Friday that foreign exchange intervention should be done in a restrained manner, after data suggested Tokyo tapped a vast pool of
June 24, 2024
Japanese household spending rose for the first time in 14 months in April from the year earlier, data showed on Friday, although the tepid growth showed consumers
June 24, 2024
China's Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong held a video call with U.S.
June 24, 2024
A workers' union at Samsung Electronics staged its first walkout on Friday, signalling more assertiveness among employees just as South Korea's most
July 02, 2024
Prime Minister Narendra Modi — fresh from declaring victory in India’s election — offered few details on the agenda for his third term
June 07, 2024
Official statistics say that China’s exports for May grew at their fastest pace in more than a year despite trade tensions, though imports fell short of analyst expectations
June 07, 2024
A Samoan author is charged with killing another prominent Samoan writer and academic, who also was the aunt of former U.S. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard
June 07, 2024
Sweden’s defense chief has expressed alarm over Beijing’s repeated dangerous maneuvers against Philippine vessels in the disputed South China Sea, saying such actions threaten local and global security, undermine regional stability and underscore the need to invest “for our security and freedom.”
June 07, 2024
South Koreans are alert for possible new launches by North Korea of balloons carrying rubbish into the South, a day after Seoul activists flew their own balloons to scatter political leaflets in the North
June 07, 2024
Authorities in Vietnam have announced that they have charged prominent journalist and historian Truong Huy San with violating a national security law because of writing he had posted on Facebook
June 07, 2024Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that President Droupadi Murmu had invited him to form a government, as he
June 25, 2024
China's President Xi Jinping met Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Beijing on Friday, Chinese state media reported, days before Pakistan presents its annual
June 25, 2024
The opening of a grand Hindu temple just three months ahead of India's general election was supposed to be a crowning moment for
June 25, 2024
U.S farmers have asked policymakers not to involve food in a trade war with China, the American Soybean Association told Reuters on Friday, amid growing
June 25, 2024
China is strongly opposed to U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and urges Washington to withdraw them immediately, the defence ministry said on Friday.
June 25, 2024
China should deepen reforms to let market forces play a decisive role in the economy while limiting the state's role, Yi Gang, former governor of the People's Bank of China (PBOC),
June 25, 2024
Japan lodged a protest against Beijing on Friday after four armed Chinese coastguard vessels entered waters that Tokyo considers its territory.
June 25, 2024
Two senior British judges recently resigned from Hong Kong's top appeals court as international concerns mounted over the rule of law in the city
June 26, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's advisory panel tasked with growth strategies called on Friday for the government and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to be vigilant
June 24, 2024
Four Indian students have drowned in the Volkhov river in northwestern Russia, India said on Friday.
June 24, 2024China's exports grew more quickly and for a second month in May, suggesting factory owners are managing to find buyers overseas and providing some relief to the economy
June 24, 2024
China's new yuan loans likely rebounded in May from April, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, as the central bank told lenders to quicken bank lending to support the economy.
June 24, 2024
The Philippine coast guard on Friday accused its Chinese counterpart of blocking efforts to evacuate a sick member of its armed forces in the South China Sea, calling its actions "
June 24, 2024
The Japanese economy likely contracted at a slightly slower pace than initially reported in January-March due to upgrades to capital spending figures, a Reuters
June 24, 2024
Indonesia's president is rushing to reassure investors and bureaucrats about his $32 billion new capital city in a malaria-prone pocket of Borneo
June 24, 2024
Japan's two biggest banks will start divesting their strategic shareholdings in Toyota Motor - worth a combined $8.5 billion - and will seek to sell into the automaker's planned
June 24, 2024
Further landslides will likely plague the area where part of a mountain collapsed onto a remote village in Papua New Guinea two weeks ago, New Zealand geological
June 24, 2024
China's exports rose 7.6% year-on-year by value in May, while imports increased 1.8%, customs data showed on Friday.
June 24, 2024
Australia's ambassador to the United States, Kevin Rudd, cautioned in a speech that the global consequences of a war over Taiwan would be as great as the impact of the
June 24, 2024
Vietnam has been increasing its dredging and landfill work in the South China Sea, creating almost as much new land as in the previous two years combined, setting the stage for
June 25, 2024Police in Vietnam have arrested two well-known Vietnamese Facebook users on charges of abusing democratic freedoms, the government said on Saturday, as a major leadership reshuffle
June 25, 2024
Malaysian authorities defended their decision to evict hundreds of sea nomads from their homes off the coast of Sabah state this week, saying it was aimed at boosting security
June 25, 2024
North Korea has flown hundreds of trash-carrying balloons to South Korea again in its third such campaign since late May, the South’s military said, just days after South Korean activists floated their own balloons to scatter propaganda leaflets in the North
June 08, 2024
The Philippines will continue to maintain and supply its outposts in the South China Sea without seeking permission from any other country, the country's
June 25, 2024
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Saturday he was ready to face charges of insulting the monarchy that mark a setback to a political heavyweight whose allies
June 25, 2024
Chinese air force jets circled a Dutch frigate and approached a Dutch helicopter in the East China Sea in a way that "caused a potentially unsafe situation," the Netherlands'
June 25, 2024Nippon Steel Vice Chairman Takahiro Mori met with U.S.
June 25, 2024
South Korea has resumed anti-North Korean propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts in border areas in retaliation for the North sending over 1,000 balloons filled with trash and manure over the last couple of weeks
June 09, 2024
A majority of Thais are dissatisfied with the government of Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, who took office nine months ago, as it has not been able to resolve the country's
June 25, 2024
South Korea said on Sunday it would resume loudspeaker broadcasts at the border directed at North Korea for the first time in six years as a response to balloon launches
June 25, 2024
South Korea resumed loudspeaker broadcasts directed at North Korea on Sunday, its military said, following through on a warning demanding Pyongyang stop sending balloons
June 25, 2024
South Korea's main doctors' lobby group said on Sunday it would go on strike on June 18 to protest the government's healthcare reform plan, defying a warning by the prime
June 25, 2024
Narendra Modi has been sworn in for a rare third consecutive term as India’s prime minister, relying on his coalition partners after his failed to win a parliamentary majority in a surprise outcome
June 09, 2024
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken office for a third consecutive term
June 09, 2024
A bomb blast targeting a military truck killed seven soldiers on Sunday in northwestern Pakistan along the border with Afghanistan, the army said.
June 25, 2024Narendra Modi was sworn in as India's prime minister on Sunday for a third term, after a shock election setback that will test his ability to ensure
July 02, 2024
The U.S. poses the largest security challenge in the South China Sea as its military deployment there is turning it into "the whirlpool of an arms race", Chinese Vice Foreign
June 25, 2024
Pace bowler Jasprit Bumrah has helped India to a six-run win over archrival Pakistan in a low-scoring Twenty20 World Cup thriller on Long Island
June 09, 2024
The Japanese economy shrank at an annual rate of 1.8% in the first quarter of this year
June 10, 2024
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said on Monday that China's Premier
June 26, 2024
Senior South Korean and U.S. defence officials met in Seoul on Monday to work on new guidelines to coordinate their response to any nuclear threat from North Korea,
June 26, 2024
Japan's economy contracted less than initially reported in January-March on upward revisions to capital spending and inventory data, lending
June 25, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol embarked on a trip to Central Asia on Monday to hold talks on strengthening diplomatic ties and cooperating in areas such as energy and minerals,
June 25, 2024
The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned of a new response against South Korea if the South continued with loudspeaker
July 02, 2024
Japan's government will highlight the need to work closely with the central bank and guide policy "flexibly" in the wake of soft consumption and uncertainty over
June 25, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
June 25, 2024
At least nine people were killed and 33 injured when a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims plunged into a deep gorge after a suspected militant attack in the Indian federal territory of
June 26, 2024Diesel price in Malaysia have jumped by more than 50%, as part of a revamp of decades-old fuel subsidies to tighten government spending and save billions of ringgit annually
June 10, 2024
Asian stocks are mixed ahead of a busy week with several top-tier reports on U.S. inflation due along with a policy meeting of the Federal Reserve
June 10, 2024
Across the Chinese diaspora, racing in dragon boats has been a tradition reaching back thousands of years
June 10, 2024
South Korea’s military says it’s detecting signs that North Korea is installing its own loudspeakers along their border, a day after the South blared anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts over its speakers for the first time in years
June 10, 2024
Voter support for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida slid by three points to 21%, the lowest since he took office in 2021, a poll by public broadcaster NHK showed on Monday,
June 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit North Korea and Vietnam in the coming weeks, Russia's Vedomosti newspaper reported on Monday, with an official telling Reuters the
June 26, 2024
The United States needs Japan's help to cope with strategic challenges in Europe and Asia that are straining its defence industries, the U.S.
June 26, 2024
Pakistan's coalition government is expected to lay out ambitious fiscal targets in the
June 26, 2024
Japan's service sector sentiment worsened in May to levels unseen in nearly two years, government data showed on Monday, as rising fuel and food costs from a weak yen dragged on
June 25, 2024
U.S. and Philippine generals say that hundreds of American and Filipino troops have concluded a newly introduced war exercise in the northern Philippines
June 10, 2024
A Palestinian chef using ancient cooking techniques, a Senegalese restaurant in New Orleans and an upscale Thai restaurant in Oregon have won coveted James Beard Awards
June 10, 2024
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, newly sworn in for a third straight term, has named a Cabinet that retains his top ministers in crucial portfolios despite his Hindu nationalist party losing majority in a shock election result
June 10, 2024
U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil Corp is weighing a sale of its petrol stations in Singapore, a deal that could raise about $1 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing sources.
December 03, 2024
A Canadian judge who sits on Hong Kong's top appeals court announced on Monday she would step down next month when her term expires and said she still had confidence in court
June 26, 2024
The rule of law in Hong Kong is profoundly compromised in areas where the government has strong opinions, a British judge who resigned
June 26, 2024
Flash floods have killed at least three people and left one missing in northern Vietnam since Saturday night, the government said on Monday, and more heavy rains are expected over
June 26, 2024Armed men ambushed a convoy carrying the security team of the chief minister of India's troubled northeastern state of Manipur on Monday, wounding two
June 26, 2024South Korea's military says South Korean soldiers fired warning shots after North Korean troops violated the two countries' land border earlier this week
June 11, 2024
Four Iowa college instructors teaching in China have been attacked while visiting a public park
June 10, 2024Singapore Airlines has offered compensation to passengers of a flight that hit extreme turbulence last month
June 11, 2024
U.S. officials are working to bring home four injured instructors from Iowa’s Cornell College who were stabbed in the northeast Chinese city of Jilin where they were teaching
June 11, 2024
Hundreds of caged animals died after a fire struck Chatuchak Weekend Market, one of the most famous markets in Thailand’s capital
June 11, 2024
In the Philippines, where colonial rule under Spain and later the United States endured for nearly four centuries, June 12 is the real Independence Day
June 11, 2024
Shares are mostly lower in Asia ahead of a decision by the Federal Reserve on interest rates
June 11, 2024
Singapore Airlines has sent compensation offers to passengers on a flight last month from London to Singapore that ran into severe turbulence, causing dozens of injuries and a death, the
June 27, 2024
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said the Philippines should be prepared for any eventuality due to heightened tension in the Indo-Pacific region regarding sovereignty claims in the
June 27, 2024
Four American instructors from a small Iowa university were wounded in a stabbing attack in a public park in northeast China's Jilin province on Monday
June 27, 2024An aggressive market grab by low-cost Chinese retailers has delivered bumper earnings for some firms but has also intensified a bruising price war, exacerbating
June 27, 2024
Lights are off and air conditioning is down at the headquarters of Vietnam's state-run electricity provider EVN as the country's
June 27, 2024
In the balloon warfare between North Korea and South Korean activists, one Seoul-based group has honed its tech expertise to develop balloons capable of dispersing
June 26, 2024
China's Li Qiang will arrive in Australia on Saturday, the first visit by a Chinese premier since 2017, in a sign of improving ties, Australian Prime Minister
June 26, 2024
South Korea's military fired warning shots after around 20 North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the border at the weekend, Seoul officials said, amid a recent rise
June 26, 2024China's defence ministry on Tuesday warned the Netherlands to restrain actions of its naval and air forces after the Netherlands' defence ministry said Chinese fighter jets
June 26, 2024A Russian SU-34 bomber crashed in the Caucasus mountains during a routine training flight likely due to a technical malfunction, killing the crew aboard, Russian news agencies reported on
June 26, 2024Taiwan's central bank is expected to keep its policy interest rate unchanged this week and to stay the course until late next year as it deals with persistent concerns over
June 26, 2024
China's major state-owned banks were seen selling dollars for yuan in the onshore spot foreign exchange market on Tuesday to prevent the local currency from falling too
June 26, 2024
New Zealand said on Tuesday it would send 41 more military personnel to the United Nations mission along the heavily fortified Demilitarised Zone between North and South Korea, as
June 26, 2024Hong Kong's leader John Lee said on Tuesday that Britain was weaponising its judicial influence against China and Hong Kong after two British judges resigned from the city's
June 26, 2024
A Chinese man arrested after his speedboat illegally entered a Taipei harbour is a former navy captain who could have been probing the island's defences, senior
June 26, 2024
Premium sportswear brands are enjoying robust growth in China as they take to directly courting their main customers, posing yet another setback to megabrands Nike
June 26, 2024
Japan's transport ministry has concluded that six cases of irregularities in vehicle certifications by Toyota Motor may also violate United Nations standards, the Yomiuri newspaper
June 26, 2024
China, the biggest official sector buyer of gold, is expected to resume its bullion shopping spree once prices ease from the record highs
June 27, 2024
(This June 10 story has been officially corrected to fix the source's quote to remove reference to the timeline from the government on
June 28, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
June 26, 2024
South Korea has started blaring propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts at border areas in retaliation for the North sending over trash-carrying balloons
June 11, 2024
Two Indian nationals recruited by the Russian army were recently killed in the war between Russia and Ukraine, the Indian foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
June 27, 2024Chinese automakers' plans to invest in Europe won't be deflected by the EU's anti-subsidy probe into Chinese-made electric vehicles, a leading Chinese auto industry association said
June 27, 2024
An Indonesian court has sentenced a comedian to seven months in prison for a joke he made about the name 'Muhammad', court documents showed, intensifying concerns over blasphemy
June 27, 2024Three court cases in Thailand, including one that has ensnared the prime minister, have heightened political uncertainty in Southeast Asia's
June 27, 2024
Japan plans to stick to its goal of achieving a primary budget surplus in the next fiscal year, according to a draft of annual policy guidelines for budget
June 27, 2024
Vietnamese President To Lam on Tuesday told Chinese ambassador to Hanoi Xiong Bo it was important that maritime disputes were managed well and each country's interests were respected
June 27, 2024A group of North Korean officials in charge of public security was set to visit Russia, state news agency KCNA said on Tuesday, amid signs of growing diplomatic and security
June 27, 2024
Residents in the Malaysian town of Tumpat were returning to submerged homes and shops as deadly floodwaters began to ease after being inundated by more than
December 03, 2024
Japan's wholesale inflation jumped in May at the fastest annual pace in nine months, data showed on Wednesday, a sign the weak yen was adding upward pressure on prices
June 27, 2024
Demand for gold in Asia is surging despite prices hovering near the record highs it hit in May, industry officials say, as buyers snap up
June 27, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
June 27, 2024
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has cracked walls and caused other minor damage in a fishing community in southwestern South Korea
June 11, 2024
An extreme weather phenomenon known as the dzud has killed more than 7.1 million animals in Mongolia, endangering herders' livelihoods and way of life
June 12, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hailed the country’s expanding relationship with Russia as reports suggest that Russian President Vladimir Putin will soon visit the country for his third meeting with Kim
June 12, 2024
China's consumer inflation held steady in May while producer price declines eased, but the underlying trend suggests Beijing would need to do more to
June 27, 2024
Thailand's Constitutional Court said on Wednesday that it will hear a case on June 18 that could lead to the dismissal of Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin related to a cabinet
June 27, 2024
South Korea's main opposition leader was indicted on Wednesday on bribery charges in an alleged scheme to use an underwear maker to transfer funds to North Korea and facilitate a
June 27, 2024
China's government said on Wednesday that a Chinese man arrested near Taipei after crossing the Taiwan Strait on a speedboat was acting on his own and that Taiwan should not be so
June 27, 2024
Hong Kong's Security Bureau said on Wednesday it would use powers in a new national security law against six self-exiled activists residing in
June 27, 2024
Poverty in Myanmar is more widespread than at any time in the last six years and growth in the conflict-torn nation is likely to remain at a measly 1% in the current fiscal year with
June 27, 2024
Australia's top trade official is predicting China will lift a ban on Australian lobster imports after Chinese Premier Li Qiang visits the country
June 12, 2024
Asian shares are mostly higher as investors turned their attention to what the Bank of Japan might decide on monetary policy later this week
June 12, 2024
At least 40 Indians died after a fire swept through a building that housed foreign workers in Kuwait
June 12, 2024
The European Union has moved to hike tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, escalating a trade dispute over Beijing’s subsidies for the exports that Brussels worries is hurting domestic automakers
June 12, 2024
DBS Group plans to boost assets under management for its wealth business to S$500 billion ($369.7 billion) by the end of 2026, said the unit's head, as the top
June 28, 2024
No upset this time for the United States as the home team was easily beaten by cricket heavyweight India at the Twenty20 World Cup
June 12, 2024
China's central bank on Wednesday held a meeting to promote its financial support for affordable housing in a bid to accelerate sales of unsold housing stock, as a property crisis
June 27, 2024
Police in India's territory of Jammu and Kashmir blamed arch rival Pakistan on Wednesday for a spate of militant attacks that has killed 12 people and injured
June 28, 2024Regional security concerns will overshadow lucrative trade ties when China's Premier Li Qiang visits New Zealand and Australia this
June 27, 2024
Thailand's central bank left its key interest rate unchanged for a fourth straight meeting on Wednesday, as widely expected, despite
June 27, 2024
Australian wine makers shipped wine worth A$86 million ($57 million) to China in the month after Beijing lifted tariffs and should be confident of bumper sales going forward, the
June 27, 2024
China will take all necessary measures to "firmly safeguard" its lawful rights and interests after a newspaper reported that the European Commission would impose tariffs of up to
June 27, 2024
Chinese Premier Li Qiang has met with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in Wellington, where the two leaders played up the ability of “good friends” to respectfully disagree — while publicly diverging on little
June 12, 2024
New Zealand and China on Thursday signed agreements on trade and climate change, with human rights also on the agenda, during a trip by Premier Li
July 02, 2024
A thousand days have passed since girls in Afghanistan were banned from attending secondary schools
June 13, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
June 28, 2024
The United States wishes India well in its efforts to improve strained ties with China, the number-two U.S. diplomat said on Wednesday,
June 28, 2024
The United States believes China's primary focus currently is its economy and that it is determined to work to stabilize bilateral
June 28, 2024
Life for North Koreans is a "daily struggle devoid of hope," the United Nations human rights chief told a Security Council meeting on Wednesday that
June 28, 2024
Europe's Airbus on Wednesday highlighted the impact of growing trade tensions after Europe followed the United States in increasing tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles
June 28, 2024
The United States imposed sanctions on Wednesday on several Hong Kong firms, including VPower Finance Security, for aiding trade in gold produced by an already
June 28, 2024
Asian shares are mixed after Wall Street’s continued frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology nudged indexes on Wall Street to more records
June 13, 2024
A military history buff in China appears to have made an alarming discovery after picking up four books for less than $1 at a neighborhood recycling station
June 13, 2024
Human rights groups are urging Thailand not to extradite a Vietnamese activist detained in Bangkok
June 13, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
June 28, 2024
The Bank of Japan said on Friday it would start trimming its huge bond purchases and announce a detailed plan next month on reducing its nearly $5 trillion balance
June 28, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that China would not sell weapons to Russia during a phone conversation between the two men, Zelenskiy said
June 28, 2024
Republican Representative Michael McCaul is expected to lead a bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation to India
June 28, 2024
The European Union's plan to hike tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) reflects a firming of its stance towards Beijing, but falls short of a tougher
June 28, 2024
Vietnam's newly elected president To Lam on Thursday called for a strengthening of ties with the United States, the government said.
June 28, 2024
Argentina's government rejected media reports on Thursday that President Javier Milei would travel to China in the coming weeks and meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping,
June 28, 2024
Myanmar's resistance fighters notched decisive breakthroughs last year by relying on a scattered fleet of drones in battles against one of Southeast Asia's most feared militaries.
June 28, 2024
From a father-of-two who planned to leave his job to a 29-year-old due to visit his family in August, two dozen Indians from the
June 28, 2024
Taiwan's central bank said on Thursday it saw inflation gradually coming down for the rest of the year but the overall tone of monetary policy
June 28, 2024
A Malaysian footballer who was critically injured after being splashed with acid last month said on Thursday he hopes his assailants can be brought to justice swiftly.
June 28, 2024
Pakistan plans to raise up to $1 billion through international bonds in the 2025/26 fiscal year, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb told Reuters, adding that up
June 28, 2024Headline inflation in Malaysia is expected to remain within the government's projected range of 2% to 3.5% for 2024, following the reform of diesel subsidies that began this
June 28, 2024Global food companies from dairy producers to pork exporters are on high alert for potential retaliatory tariffs from China
June 28, 2024
Chinese firms reserve the right to request anti-subsidy and anti-dumping investigations into European dairy and pork imports, the country's commerce ministry said on
June 28, 2024
Weeks of scarce rainfall in parts of China, coupled with sweltering heat, has brought drought to several provinces, prompting alerts and actions from authorities to
June 28, 2024
An upcoming review of Thailand's inflation target range by the central bank and finance ministry should increase the chance of a rate cut, Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said
June 28, 2024
Thai consumer confidence dropped for a third straight month in May, falling to its lowest level since October last year on concerns over a slow economic recovery and political
June 28, 2024
Analysts have solidified their bearish positions on most Asian currencies as higher-for-longer U.S. interest rates and a resilient dollar are likely to continue to hurt
June 28, 2024
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) left its base rate through the overnight discount window unchanged at 5.75% on Thursday, tracking a move by the U.S.
June 28, 2024
The Bank of Japan may offer guidance on how it plans to reduce its $5-trillion balance sheet at its policy meeting on Friday, in a slow but steady retreat from its
June 28, 2024
Honda Motor will start selling a micro-sized electric van targeted at Japan's delivery industry in October, the Japanese automaker said on Thursday, joining an increasingly crowded
June 28, 2024
Thailand expects to secure at least 800 billion baht ($21.78 billion) worth of investment applications this year, the government said on Friday, as it seeks to attract more
June 28, 2024
Japan, a major coal and liquefied natural gas (LNG) buyer, could be energy-independent by 2060 thanks to expansion of solar and wind power together with storage
June 28, 2024
Leading Chinese #MeToo activist Huang Xueqin was sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty on Friday of subverting state
June 28, 2024
Vietnam's Finance Ministry has proposed to hike a special consumption tax on alcoholic drinks to 100% by 2030, the ministry said, a move that may further hurt the country's beverage
June 28, 2024
There is a growing demand in China for high-quality dairy, beef and lamb products from New Zealand, Premier Li Qiang said on Friday, the second day of his trip to
June 28, 2024
The Bank of Japan kept interest rates unchanged on Friday but said it would trim bond buying in the future to allow long-term interest rates to move more.
June 28, 2024
Indonesia's central bank intervened in the foreign exchange market to defend the rupiah, its governor said on Friday, vowing to use monetary policy to stabilise the currency after
June 28, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin may visit Pyongyang for meetings with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as soon as next week, South Korean officials say.
June 28, 2024
The U.S. government has returned another $156 million to Malaysia in recovered assets linked to scandal-hit state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), taking the total
June 28, 2024
A seminal moment in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's unsuccessful campaign to retain his parliamentary majority occurred days
June 28, 2024
A possible impending visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to North Korea could deepen military ties between the two countries in violation of U.N.
June 28, 2024
Chinese soccer fans have poured their love — and money — into a Singaporean goalkeeper’s food stall after his performance in a game this week indirectly helped China advance to the third qualifying round for the World Cup in 2026
June 14, 2024
Supporters say a a Chinese journalist who promoted women's rights as part of the country's nascent #MeToo movement has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges of undermining state security
June 14, 2024
Japan’s defense chief says Japanese and American V-22 Ospreys are being safely operated in the country
June 14, 2024
Buddhist monks in Thailand have blessed twin baby elephants, one male and the other female, a week after their rare birth came close to being a tragedy
June 14, 2024
Palestinian swimmer Yazan Al Bawwab, who is training for the 2024 Olympic Games, has a mission.
June 28, 2024
The Philippine military chief urged Filipino fishermen to keep fishing in the country's exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea, despite China's new coastguard rules allowing
June 28, 2024
China's market regulator said on Friday that Tesla would fix software in 5,836 imported Model 3, Model S and Model X cars from July, citing safety issues.
June 28, 2024
Japan's securities watchdog recommended on Friday that the banking and securities units of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) be penalised for what it said was
June 28, 2024
Germany wants "serious movement" from China on the issue of tariffs on imported electric vehicles and hopes that talks in the coming weeks can stave
June 28, 2024
Indonesia's defeated presidential candidate Anies Baswedan announced he will run for Jakarta governor in a November vote, ending speculation about whether the opposition politician
June 28, 2024
Pakistan's plan to raise taxes in its 2024-25 budget and boost state revenues will help it win approval from the International Monetary Fund for a loan to stave
June 28, 2024
India's merchandise exports rose 9.1% to $38.13 billion in May from a year earlier, helped by an increase in shipments of engineering goods,
June 28, 2024
The bodies of 45 Indians who died in a fire in a labour housing facility in Kuwait were flown to India on Friday, as bereaved relatives and
June 28, 2024
Lawyers appointed by the liquidators of China Evergrande Group are investigating some of the property developer's service providers including its former auditor
June 28, 2024
India's wholesale prices rose 2.61% in May, the most in more than a year, mainly driven by food items, government data showed on Friday.
June 28, 2024
At least six people have been killed this week and around 2,000 tourists stranded in India's Himalayan state of Sikkim in landslides and floods after
June 28, 2024China's central bank is widely expected to leave a key policy rate unchanged when rolling over maturing medium-term loans next Monday, a Reuters survey showed.
June 28, 2024
China's "provocative" actions around Taiwan, Japan and in the South China Sea run the risk of an accident that could unintentionally spark a broader conflict,
June 28, 2024
China's central bank faces a looming test of its resolve to curb the financial stability risks it sees in a rallying bond market as it
June 28, 2024
Chinese Premier Li Qiang has arrived in Australia on a relations-mending mission
June 15, 2024
Chinese Premier Li Qiang visited New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra on Saturday, a stop Trade Minister Todd McClay called "very positive" after the Chinese leader had spoken of demand for
June 28, 2024
The Philippines filed a claim with the U.N. on Saturday to an extended continental shelf (ECS) in the South China Sea, a waterway where it has had increasingly confrontational
June 28, 2024
Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrived in Australia on Saturday, saying relations were "back on track" as he started the first visit by a Chinese premier to the major
June 28, 2024
Officials say a Japanese climber has died while trying to scale one of the highest mountains in northern Pakistan and a search is still underway to find his missing colleague
June 15, 2024
Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s visit to Australia has focused on positive aspects of the bilateral relationship including shared giant pandas and a rebounding wine trade after he urged both countries to shelve their differences
June 16, 2024
A cleanup was underway after an oil spill caused by a dredger boat hitting a stationary cargo tanker blackened part of Singapore’s southern coastline
June 16, 2024
China Premier Li Qiang made a low-key start on Sunday to a four-day trip to Australia with visits to a South Australian winery and Adelaide Zoo, where he announced Beijing would provide two
June 28, 2024
An oil spill off southern Singapore has spread to other areas of the island's coast and is threatening a marine reserve, government agencies said, adding that authorities were
July 02, 2024
China views the annexation and "elimination" of Taiwan as its great national cause, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Sunday, telling
June 28, 2024
Australia and China will take steps to improve military communication to avoid incidents, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said after meeting Premier Li Qiang on
July 02, 2024
Australian writer Yang Hengjun's suspended death sentence has been upheld by Beijing's High People's Court, with the decision relayed to Australian officials two
June 28, 2024
Stabilising prices are creating an environment to cut rates in South Korea, a senior presidential official said on Sunday.
June 28, 2024
Thailand weathered a critical day of court cases on Tuesday, including those involving the fate of the prime minister and the main opposition, dodging an immediate political crisis
June 30, 2024
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June 28, 2024
Japan's core machinery orders fell in April for the first time in three months, government data showed on Monday, due to a pullback from the prior month's big
June 28, 2024
China still has room to lower interest rates, but its ability to adjust monetary policy faces internal and external constraints, the official Financial News said on Monday, citing
June 28, 2024
The loudspeakers deployed by South Korea to wage psychological warfare against North Korea faced audits and legal battles claiming they are too quiet, raising
June 28, 2024
The New Zealand defence force plane flying New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to Japan broke down on Sunday, forcing the Prime Minister to take a
June 28, 2024
China and the Philippines traded accusations over a collision in the South China Sea on Monday, with Manila saying its armed forces
June 28, 2024
Singapore-based investment firm Temasek Holdings will invest up to A$300 million ($198.4 million) in Australian exchange-traded fund manager Betashares, the company said on Monday.
June 28, 2024
Hong Kong investment products such as insurance and high-yield time deposits are seeing resurgent demand from wealthy Chinese who are aiming to shield returns from a
June 28, 2024
A recovery in Chinese overseas travel from the COVID-19 pandemic is fading as rising costs and difficulties in securing visas
June 28, 2024
Singapore authorities say a dredger boat reported a sudden loss in engine and steering control before it hit a cargo tanker last week, causing the oil spill that has blackened part of the city-island’s southern shores
June 17, 2024
Muslims in Asia are celebrating Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice, one of the biggest holidays in the Islamic calendar
June 17, 2024
China’s coast guard says a Chinese vessel and a Philippine supply ship collided near the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea
June 17, 2024
Chinese Premier Li Qiang says he has agreed with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to properly manage their nations’ differences as they emerge from a hostile era in which minister-to-minister contacts were banned and trade barriers cost Australian exporters up to $13 billion a year
June 16, 2024
A cargo train has rammed into a passenger train in India’s eastern state of West Bengal, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens of others
June 17, 2024
New Zealand's fire service says a passenger plane landed safely after a fire shut down one engine shortly after takeoff from Queenstown on the South Island
June 17, 2024Shares are mostly higher in Asia after U.S. stocks rallied to more records, with gains for technology companies pushing the benchmarks higher
June 17, 2024
Tens of thousands of Muslim minority Rohingya are feared to be caught in fighting in western Myanmar, as a powerful armed ethnic group bears down on junta positions in a coastal town on the
June 28, 2024China's May industrial output lagged expectations and a slowdown in the property sector showed no signs of easing despite policy support,
June 28, 2024
Three out of Vietnam's five active international undersea internet cables are down, state media said over the weekend, the second major round of outages in the country in just over a
June 28, 2024South Korea and China will hold their first round of diplomatic and security dialogue on Tuesday, Seoul's foreign ministry said on Monday, in line with an agreement the two nations
June 28, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin is widely portrayed as a pariah in the West, but he looks set to receive a warm welcome when he visits Communist-ruled Vietnam this week.
July 01, 2024
Thai lesbian couple Vorawan "Beaut" Ramwan and Anticha "An" Sangchai are patiently waiting for the passage of their country's same-sex
June 28, 2024
Property investment in China fell 10.1% in the first five months of 2024 from a year earlier, after dropping 9.8% in January-April, even as policymakers doubled down on efforts to
June 28, 2024
Toyota Motor Chairman Akio Toyoda may be in no danger of not being re-elected at the automaker's annual general meeting on Tuesday, but any
June 28, 2024
South Korea's SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said on Monday the conglomerate would prevent the outcome of his recent divorce payment ruling from leaving SK companies
June 28, 2024
Taiwan is not seeking war with Beijing, and its policy is to build up a defensive, multi-level deterrence capability to make it harder for China to capture the island, Taiwan
June 28, 2024
China has been at odds with many other countries in the Asia-Pacific for years over its sweeping maritime claims, including almost all of the South China Sea, a strategic and resource-rich waterway
June 17, 2024
North Korean state media says Russian President Vladimir Putin will arrive in the country on Tuesday for a two-day visit
June 17, 2024
A freight train smashed into the rear of a stationary passenger train in India's West Bengal state on Monday, killing at least 15
June 28, 2024
Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has chosen to represent his family bastion of Raebareli in parliament as his Congress Party seeks to build on the stronger
June 28, 2024
Global supply chains for rare earths are realigning to diversify away from top producer China to make permanent magnets used in products from electric vehicles to wind turbines
July 02, 2024
India and the United States on Monday committed to action to address barriers to bilateral strategic trade, technology and industrial cooperation.
June 28, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit North Korea on Tuesday and Wednesday for the first time in 24 years, the two countries said,
June 28, 2024
China on Tuesday dismissed European Union calls for it to stop alleged human rights violations and said it opposed "double standards" and interference in its internal
June 30, 2024
A U.S. appeals court on Monday said it will hold oral arguments on Sept. 16 on legal challenges to a new law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest
June 28, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit North Korea on Tuesday and Wednesday and hold talks with its leader, Kim Jong Un, the two countries said.
June 28, 2024
The Philippines' defence minister said on Monday that the country's armed forces will resist China's "dangerous and reckless behaviour" in territory claimed by Manila in the South
June 28, 2024Adidas shares dropped 4% on Monday after the German sportswear brand said it was investigating allegations of corruption in China after receiving an anonymous letter.
June 28, 2024
A power outage lasting several minutes at India's busiest airport in Delhi caused minor disruptions to some services within the terminal on Monday, airport
June 28, 2024
China's copper scrap imports have soared due to shortages of concentrate that is processed into refined metal used in the power and construction
June 28, 2024
The United States, Canada, Japan, and the Philippines conducted a two-day joint maritime exercise in Manila's exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea, the U.S.
June 28, 2024India's monsoon has delivered a fifth less rain than normal so far this season, the weather department said on Monday, in a worrying sign for the vital
June 28, 2024
The Philippine crew of a vessel attacked by Yemen's Houthi militants was repatriated to the Philippines from Bahrain on Monday, with the ship's
June 28, 2024A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
June 29, 2024
Peru's government does not expect an upcoming trip by President Dina Boluarte to China or the increase in investments by Chinese firms in the Andean nation to cause "
June 28, 2024
Pork suppliers from South America and the U.S. could gain market share in China if Beijing restricts imports from the European Union in response to escalating
June 29, 2024
Thailand has tried for years to deal with its pollution problem
June 18, 2024
Chinese Premier Li Qiang visited a lithium processing plant in resource-rich Western Australia state on Tuesday, highlighting China's push to
July 02, 2024
Thailand's influential former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a powerful backer of the largest party in the governing coalition, avoided pre-trial detention
July 01, 2024
Chinese Premier Li Qiang has received a red-carpet welcome in Malaysia on the last leg of a regional tour
June 18, 2024
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been indicted and arraigned on a charge of defaming the country’s monarchy in one of several court cases that have rattled Thai politics
June 18, 2024
South Korea's military says its troops have fired warning shots to repel North Korean soldiers who briefly crossed the rivals’ heavily fortified land border for the second time this month
June 18, 2024
Toyota shareholders have voted in support of all of the company's proposals at their annual meeting, including keeping Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the Japanese automaker’s founder, as chairman of the board
June 18, 2024
Philippine security officials say Chinese forces have seized two Philippine rubber boats that were delivering food and other supplies to a military ship outpost in a disputed South China Sea shoal in a tense confrontation in which some Filipino navy personnel were injured
June 18, 2024
Asian stocks are mixed after U.S. benchmarks ticked to more records following the latest signs that the U.S. economy may be slowing without falling into recession
June 18, 2024
Thailand’s Senate has voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage, clearing the last legislative hurdle for the country to become the first in Southeast Asia to enact such a law
June 18, 2024
South Korean officials issued return-to-work orders for doctors participating in a one-day walkout as part of a protracted strike against a government plan to sharply boost medical school admissions
June 18, 2024
A Philippine navy sailor suffered "serious injury" after what the country's military called on Tuesday "intentional-high speed ramming" by the Chinese coast guard during a resupply
June 30, 2024
Japan's Hitachi is considering selling its 40% stake in an air-conditioning joint venture with Johnson Controls International Plc, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people
June 30, 2024
China's securities regulator said on Tuesday it will strengthen regulation of all financial activities and prevent and resolve risks, in a move to improve and reform financial
July 01, 2024
China's embassy in the Philippines accused the U.S. military of "hypocrisy, malign intention and double standards" in response to a report of secret U.S. campaign to undermine
June 30, 2024
Australia is sending seven ministers and its police chief to Papua New Guinea to hold security and trade talks with its northern neighbour, government officials
June 30, 2024Thailand's Senate passed the final reading of a marriage equality law on Tuesday, paving the way for it to become the first country
July 01, 2024
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had told China's Premier Li Qiang that an incident at parliament house, where Chinese officials tried to
June 30, 2024
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said the central bank could raise interest rates next month depending on economic data available at the time, underscoring its
June 30, 2024
During a visit to Australia this week, Chinese Premier Li Qiang made a classic goodwill gesture that boded well for relations between the two countries: he offered to send pandas.
July 01, 2024
The task of controlling floods in China is becoming increasingly arduous, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday, calling for all-out efforts to safeguard lives and property as
July 02, 2024
The price Japanese companies charge each other for services with high labour costs rose 2.8% in April from a year earlier, the fastest increase in nearly four years,
June 30, 2024
Shell has agreed to buy Singaporean liquefied natural gas (LNG) company Pavilion Energy from global investment company Temasek
July 01, 2024
South Korea's military fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers crossed the Military Demarcation Line in the border area between the two Koreas on Tuesday,
June 30, 2024Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda and nine other members of the automaker's board were re-elected at an annual general meeting on Tuesday,
July 01, 2024
India will launch an investigation on Tuesday into a train collision that killed nine people in the state of West Bengal and injured more than 50, a
June 30, 2024
The South Korean government issued a return-to-work order for private practitioners on Tuesday as more doctors including medical professors join the months-long strike
June 30, 2024
India is expected to grow by 7.2% in the current fiscal year, stronger than earlier expected, with its central bank opting for just a one-quarter-point rate cut in that period,
June 30, 2024
China's latest property support measures have boosted transactions in its biggest cities, but activity in smaller localities is
June 30, 2024
New Zealand will increase its contribution to North Korea sanctions monitoring, out of Japan, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said Tuesday.
June 30, 2024
Taiwan's defence minister said on Tuesday that they have a "grasp" of the situation after pictures appeared online of a Chinese nuclear submarine
June 30, 2024Hong Kong's stock market will stay open during typhoons and heavy rain effective Sept. 23, a change that will help maintain the global financial hub's competitiveness, city
June 30, 2024
South Korea's central bank governor said on Tuesday the pace of consumer inflation is likely to continue to slow, feeding expectations the Bank of Korea will start cutting interest
June 29, 2024
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Rae Wee The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) on Tuesday kept rates on hold, flagging stubborn domestic price pressures - a common theme that
June 29, 2024
Australia's central bank held interest rates steady on Tuesday as expected, while reiterating that it was not ruling out further increases if needed to control inflation.
June 29, 2024
Malaysia is preparing to join the BRICS group of emerging economies, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said in an interview with Chinese media outlet Guancha.
June 29, 2024
Chinese consumer demand for new energy vehicles (NEVs) is likely to maintain its fast growth, which will increase the need for electric vehicle charging infrastructure, the
June 29, 2024
Thailand's influential former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been formally indicted for allegedly insulting the monarchy, the attorney-general's office said on Tuesday.
June 29, 2024
Ecuador has announced the suspension of an agreement with China that had waived visas for Chinese citizens traveling to the South American country
June 18, 2024
The chair and top Democrat on the House select committee on China will announce Tuesday they are launching a bipartisan working group to reduce China's
July 01, 2024
Ecuador's foreign ministry on Tuesday said that it was effectively reinstating a visa requirement for travelers from China, citing an increase in irregular migratory flows from the
July 01, 2024
The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee said on Tuesday that U.S. intelligence agencies need to do a better job in tracking Chinese advanced
July 01, 2024
A group of U.S. lawmakers arrived in India on Tuesday to meet Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, with the head of the delegation saying
July 01, 2024
China's richest people are avoiding flaunting their wealth in favour of more discreet fashion, according to a report published on Tuesday by
June 30, 2024
Tens of thousands of Muslim-minority Rohingya, who were feared to be trapped amid fighting in western Myanmar, had nowhere to flee, the United Nations human rights chief said on
June 30, 2024
President Vladimir Putin is in North Korea for a summit with its leader, Kim Jong Un, as the two nations deepen their cooperation
June 18, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
July 01, 2024
Brazilian planemaker Embraer sees India, Saudi Arabia, the European Union and the United States as strategic markets for its defense unit as it
July 01, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in North Korea on Tuesday for his first visit in 24 years, Interfax news agency reported.
July 01, 2024
A report released by Human Rights Watch says authorities in China’s western Xinjiang region have been systematically replacing the names of villages inhabited by Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities to reflect the ruling Communist Party’s ideology
June 18, 2024
The Biden administration has approved a new $360 million weapons sale to Taiwan, sending the island hundreds of armed drones, missile equipment and related support material
June 19, 2024
Fresh Malaysian durians will soon make their way to China as the two countries signed a slew of trade and economic deals during a visit by Premier Li Qiang to mark 50 years of diplomatic relations
June 19, 2024
Chinese automakers have urged Beijing to hike tariffs on imported European gasoline-powered cars in retaliation for Brussels' curbs on exports of Chinese-made EVs,
July 02, 2024
Sales fell for the first time ever at China's blowout mid-year e-commerce sales festival as consumers remain cautious about spending as the economy
July 01, 2024
The chairman of defaulted Chinese developer Kaisa Group returned to mainland China from Hong Kong for the first time in almost a decade to get regulatory
July 01, 2024
South Korea's foreign exchange authorities view the 1,385 level as a line in the sand for the won versus the dollar, two sources involved in the policy
July 01, 2024
A group of U.S. lawmakers who met the Dalai Lama in India on Wednesday said they would not allow China to influence
July 02, 2024
The Philippines urged China on Wednesday to avoid actions that endanger sailors and vessels in the South China Sea, saying peace could not
July 02, 2024
China's central bank on Wednesday signalled that it might soon start trading in the secondary bond market as yields continue to fall, reinforcing policymakers' concerns
July 01, 2024
Only military strength can keep the peace with China and the Taiwanese people will not give in to Chinese coercion, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te
July 01, 2024
India recorded more than 40,000 suspected heatstroke cases this summer as a prolonged heatwave killed more than 100 people across the
July 02, 2024
Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin on Wednesday proposed a 3.753 trillion baht ($102 billion) budget for the 2025 fiscal year to jump-start the country's sluggish economy as
July 01, 2024
Japan's weak yen sharply boosted the value of exports in May but the volume of sales shrank for the fourth consecutive month, highlighting
July 01, 2024
The Demilitarized Zone between the two rival Koreas might be the most heavily armed place on earth
June 19, 2024
A U.S. official was heading to Japan after meeting with the Dutch government to urge the allies to further restrict China's ability to produce cutting-
July 02, 2024
Supporters of Myanmar’s imprisoned ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi have carried out peaceful flower-themed protests marking her 79th birthday
June 19, 2024
Both Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un say a new strategic partnership is a breakthrough, but what it means for their relationship is still uncertain
June 19, 2024
India's cabinet approved development on Wednesday of a new deep-water port that the government said will be a crucial part of a plan to connect the Asian country with Europe by
July 02, 2024
Vladimir Putin, on his first visit to North Korea in 24 years, signed a mutual defence pledge with Kim Jong Un on Wednesday, underscoring
July 02, 2024
Russia's President Vladimir Putin praised Vietnam for its "balanced" stance on the Ukraine war and listed progress on payments, energy and
July 02, 2024
Indian authorities said on Wednesday they were impounding a Som Group distillery and temporarily suspending the plant's manufacturing licences
July 01, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un took turns to drive each other around in a Russian-built Aurus limousine on Wednesday after the Kremlin
July 02, 2024
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte resigned on Wednesday from the cabinet of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and another key post, not a surprise
July 01, 2024
Foreign investors have bought more than $10 billion of Indian government bonds that will be included in a widely-followed JPMorgan debt index on June 28, taking
July 01, 2024
China's President Xi Jinping said there were "deep-seated problems" in the Chinese military's politics, ideology, work style and discipline, state-run CCTV reported
July 01, 2024
Romania will buy $920 million worth of South Korea's K-9 self-propelled howitzers, in its largest weapon acquisition in seven years, Seoul's defence ministry said on Wednesday.
July 01, 2024
Papua New Guinea Foreign Minister Justin Tkachenko said on Wednesday the Pacific Island nation was "crystal clear" in partnering with Australia for security, as
July 01, 2024The party chief of Vietnam's capital city Hanoi, Dinh Tien Dung, has resigned, the government said on Wednesday, marking the latest top official to exit as the ruling Communist Party
July 01, 2024
Chinese police are investigating a case of illegal foreign exchange activity and money laundering after tip-offs from the United States, state media said on
July 01, 2024
A delegation of U.S. lawmakers met the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday in India's northern town of Dharamsala.
July 01, 2024
China said it was willing to study a plan to connect Malaysia's $10-billion East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) to other China-backed railway
July 01, 2024
Shareholder backing for Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda slid for a second straight year, results from its annual general meeting showed on Wednesday, with his support
July 01, 2024
China reacted guardedly this week as Russia and North Korea deepened their ties and vowed to resist the U.S.-led West, with Beijing avoiding any
July 01, 2024
Japan and New Zealand have agreed in principle on an intelligence sharing pact as their leaders shared concern about the increasingly challenging security environment in the region, including closer ties between Russia and North Korea
June 19, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he wanted to build a "reliable security architecture" in the Asia-Pacific region during a state visit to Vietnam on
June 19, 2024
Mexican food chain Guzman Y Gomez served up Australia's best initial public offering debut in three years with its shares leaping more than one-third on their first
July 02, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets. No Wall Street, no problem.
July 02, 2024
Most Japanese companies see no need for their government to follow the U.S. in raising tariffs on Chinese imports, saying excessive production capacity in China's
July 02, 2024
The Philippine military chief has demanded China return several rifles and equipment seized by the Chinese coast guard in a disputed shoal and pay for damage in an assault he likened to an act of piracy in the South China Sea
June 19, 2024
South Korea says it will consider sending arms to Ukraine after Russia and North Korea rattled the region and beyond by signing a pact to come to each other’s defense in the event of war
June 20, 2024
China left benchmark lending rates unchanged at a monthly fixing on Thursday, in line with market expectations.
July 02, 2024
Japan had more than 3 million visitors for a third straight month in May, official data showed on Wednesday, as the weak yen helped continue a record pace for inbound
July 02, 2024
Tackling India's chronic joblessness will be the biggest challenge for the government over the next five years, even as the country remains
July 02, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a series of deals with his Vietnamese counterpart during a state visit that comes as Moscow is seeking to bolster ties in Asia to offset its growing international isolation over its military actions in Ukraine
June 20, 2024
Nippon Steel's proposed acquisition of U.S.
July 02, 2024
Days of torrential rain, flash floods and landslides across southern China forced authorities to step up emergency plans, as surging waters from swollen rivers threatened to disrupt
July 02, 2024
Germany's economy minister touches down in South Korea on Thursday in the first leg of a trip to Asia, seeking to deepen ties with the region's fourth-largest
July 02, 2024
Officials say at least 34 people have died and dozens are hospitalized after drinking illegally brewed liquor tainted with methanol in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu
June 20, 2024
Asian shares are mostly lower after a retreat on Wall Street, where a drop in Nvidia stock pulled stocks lower
June 20, 2024
Indonesia's Awyu tribe of the Papua region has filed a case to the Supreme Court seeking to cancel permits for palm oil concessions on thousands of hectares
July 02, 2024
The United States and China held high-level talks on anti-narcotics cooperation on Thursday, following a breakthrough in bilateral work this week that saw them
July 02, 2024
North Korea's state media on Thursday unveiled the full text of a mutual defence pact signed a day ago by its leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin,
July 02, 2024
Thailand hopes to become a member of the BRICS group of emerging economies at the organisation's next summit in Russia in October, a foreign ministry official said Thursday.
July 02, 2024
Australia said it would provide A$2 million ($1.33 million) to Papua New Guinea to restore road access to the Porgera gold mine, previously one of the world's largest, and other
July 02, 2024Long-touted changes to China's tax system will focus on allowing local governments to retain more fiscal revenues, say policy advisers, widely seen by
July 02, 2024
The Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday that exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism the Dalai Lama must "thoroughly correct" his political views as a condition for
July 02, 2024
China is pressing India to restart direct passenger flights after a four-year halt, but New Delhi is resisting as a border
July 02, 2024
The European Commission sought an unprecedented amount of detailed information on Chinese automakers' supply chains during its investigation into the country's
July 02, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a pair of Pungsan dogs, a local breed, state media KCNA reported on Thursday.
July 02, 2024
Malaysian and Chinese firms signed agreements on Thursday for potential investments worth 13.2 billion ringgit ($2.80 billion) to collaborate in sectors ranging from oil and
July 02, 2024
China's coast guard personnel acted like a "band of barbarians" during a Philippine resupply mission to a contested shoal in the South China Sea this week that led to
July 02, 2024Two of Toyota's top suppliers, Denso and Aisin, have sold off holdings in several Toyota-affiliated companies, regulatory filings showed on Thursday, in the latest reduction of cross
July 02, 2024
South Korea will review the possibility of supplying weapons to Ukraine, a presidential official said on Thursday, after the leaders of North Korea and Russia signed a pact pledging
June 20, 2024
Data from India's Health Ministry shows a monthslong heat wave across swathes of India has killed more than 100 people and led to over 40,000 suspected cases of heat stroke in the last three and a half months
June 20, 2024
Vietnam instructed its officials to withhold information from Washington to paint the country's efforts to tackle human trafficking in a better light, a campaign
July 02, 2024China's banking regulator has given small banks a 2026 deadline to stop selling wealth management products unless they have a separate wealth subsidiary in a bid to curb financial
July 02, 2024
Singapore's banking sector, including wealth management, poses the highest money laundering risk in the city-state, the government said in a
July 02, 2024
Indian opposition leader and New Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has been granted bail by a court in the capital after he was arrested in a bribery case in March
June 20, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that South Korea would be making "a big mistake" if it decides to supply arms to Ukraine and that Moscow would respond to such a move in a
July 02, 2024
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the NATO military alliance of creating a security threat for Russia and other nations in Asia.
July 02, 2024
At least 36 people died and more than 60 were being treated in hospitals after consuming tainted liquor in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, a government
July 02, 2024
India opposition leader and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was granted bail by a city court in a graft case on Thursday, his party and lawyers said,
June 20, 2024
The imagery from Pyongyang emerged quickly this week and was notable in its variety
June 20, 2024
South Korea has summoned the Russian ambassador to protest a defense pact with North Korea, two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an agreement vowing mutual defense with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on a state visit to Pyongyang
June 21, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing a policy conundrum after losing ground in the recent election: how to control food
June 21, 2024
SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son said on Friday that the group's mission was to help in humanity's progress by realising artificial super intelligence, which he said
June 21, 2024
Confidence among big Japanese manufacturers likely improved slightly in the three months to June, while non-manufacturers' mood slipped a bit, the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) closely-
June 21, 2024
In his trip to China, Germany's Economy Minister Robert Habeck doesn't expect to reach a solution on trade tensions after the EU threatened to impose
June 21, 2024
South Korea's foreign ministry said it had summoned the Russian ambassador in protest of a pact between Russia and North Korea signed in Pyongyang this week, as a
June 21, 2024
Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Friday that his country wants to restart annual dialogue with China's chief of defence to reduce
June 21, 2024
Asian hedge funds led global gains in May and the first five months, as bullish sentiment towards regional equities and winning positions in China boosted
June 21, 2024
The German economy minister's visit to China this week will be an opportunity for Europe's biggest economy to seek consensus rather than confrontation, Chinese state
June 21, 2024
Japan imposed trade restrictions on China-based companies as part of a fresh round of sanctions against individuals and groups supporting Russia's war on Ukraine, the foreign
June 21, 2024
The United States and China resumed semi-official nuclear arms talks in March for the first time in five years, with Beijing's
June 21, 2024
Japanese authorities are ready to take action against speculative and excessively volatile moves in the currency market that hurt the economy,
June 20, 2024
Japan's core inflation accelerated in May due to energy levies but an index that strips away the effect of fuel slowed for the ninth straight month, data showed on
June 20, 2024
A New Zealand lawmaker says the government will overhaul the gun laws tightened after the mass shooting by a white supremacist five years ago
June 21, 2024
South Korea's foreign exchange authorities on Friday said they agreed with the National Pension Service to expand a currency swap line to $50 billion from the current
June 21, 2024
Vietnam said on Friday it is willing to talk to the Philippines to seek measures that are in line with the interests of both countries, after Manila last week filed a claim with the
June 21, 2024Thailand's Finance Minister Pichai Chunhavajira will discuss the inflation target with the central bank governor, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said on Friday, adding additional
June 21, 2024
The finance ministers of South Korea and Japan will hold a bilateral meeting in Seoul on June 25, South Korea's finance ministry said on Friday.
June 20, 2024
Japan's factory activity expanded for a second straight month in June but the pace of growth eased as orders weakened and cost pressures intensified, a business survey showed on
June 20, 2024
Japan is not a party to the South China Sea issue and has no right to intervene in China-Philippines maritime matters, a spokesperson for China's embassy in Japan said on Friday.
June 20, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
June 20, 2024
An Indian-born billionaire and three family members have been sentenced to prison for exploiting domestic workers at their lakeside villa in Switzerland
June 21, 2024
At least 47 people have died as downpours in southern China’s Guangdong province caused historic flooding and slides, state media reported Friday, while authorities warned of more extreme weather in other parts of the country
June 21, 2024
China says it has banned a number of business units of American aviation maker Lockheed Martin Corporation and three of its executives over arms deals with Taiwan, the self-ruling island it claims as its own territory
June 21, 2024
Satellite data shows the amount of food the residents of the tiny Pacific island have grown over time, pointing to a small but stable population.
June 21, 2024
The Thai government's 3.753 trillion baht ($102 billion) budget for the 2025 fiscal year passed its first parliamentary vote on Friday,
June 21, 2024
The death toll from the latest case of tainted liquor in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has climbed to 47, with over 100 people still in hospital, a
June 21, 2024
Monsoon rains and upstream river water from India have caused widespread flooding in northeastern Bangladesh, stranding more than 2 million people, and the situation
June 21, 2024An Indian court on Friday suspended a lower court's order granting bail to opposition leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a graft
June 21, 2024
China and Australia will provide each other's citizens with multiple-entry visas of up to five years for tourism and business from Friday, the Chinese foreign ministry said, in
June 21, 2024
New Delhi is in touch with the family of an Indian man who is accused of plotting with an Indian government official to kill a Sikh separatist in the United
June 21, 2024
The death toll from days of torrential rain in one of the worst-hit areas in southern China jumped to 38 from nine on Friday, Chinese state television CCTV reported.
June 21, 2024
The Philippines did not consider invoking a mutual defence treaty with the United States after accusing China of disrupting a resupply mission in the disputed South China Sea,
June 21, 2024
India's foreign ministry said peace on its border with China was critical for relations to become normal, reacting on Friday to a Reuters report that New Delhi was not keen to
June 21, 2024
China on Friday threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for "diehard" Taiwan independence separatists, a ratcheting up of pressure even though Chinese courts have no
June 21, 2024
Taiwan government said on Friday it "deeply regrets" China's move to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for what it called "diehard" Taiwan independence separatists.
June 21, 2024
Pakistani authorities have begun an investigation to identify and arrest members of a mob that killed a local tourist accused of blasphemy, after they
June 21, 2024China has imposed sanctions against some Lockheed Martin Corp subsidiaries and senior executives over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, China's foreign ministry said in a statement.
June 21, 2024
China is pushing for Visa and Mastercard to lower their bank card transaction fees in the country to encourage spending by foreign visitors, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing a
June 21, 2024
Nissan Motor has halted production at its Changzhou plant in China as it seeks to optimise its operations, the Japanese automaker said on Friday
June 21, 2024
Arrowpoint Investment Partners, one of Asia's largest hedge fund launches this year, said on Friday it has secured investment from the Canada Pension Plan
June 21, 2024Japan on Friday affirmed its pledge to deliver a primary budget surplus by the next fiscal year, reflecting concerns that its exit from the
June 21, 2024
Philippine business groups said on Friday they deplored the harassment of the country's military, in comments that come after a recent clash between navy personnel and the Chinese
June 21, 2024
Economy Minister Robert Habeck will underline Germany's resolve to pursue commercial links with China during a visit starting Friday but trade experts say
June 21, 2024
A sliding yuan and extensive outflows of cash from the mainland into Hong Kong show China's domestic investors are shelving expectations
June 21, 2024
Electric vehicle sales are surging in Southeast Asia, led by China's BYD and Vietnam's VinFast, eating into the internal combustion engine car market dominated
June 21, 2024
Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Shinichi Uchida said on Friday the central bank will "adjust the degree of monetary support" if the economy and prices move in line with
June 21, 2024
Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) said its buyer BlackRock will not be involved in privatising Malaysia Airports after criticism in Muslim-majority Malaysia over the U.S.
June 21, 2024
Escalating violence in Myanmar's western Rakhine state in recent months may have spurred some Rohingya Muslims to cross into Bangladesh, a key
June 21, 2024
Most of India’s 120 million farmers depend on rain from monsoons for a good harvest
June 22, 2024
A 17-year-old vocational school student from rural China has become a celebrity on Chinese social media after getting into the final round of a math competition, beating many others from elite universities while raising questions about the education system
June 22, 2024
A nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier has arrived in South Korea for a three-way exercise involving Japan as they step up military training to cope with North Korean threats, which have escalated following a security pact with Russia
June 22, 2024
Engine trouble forced a Japan Airlines plane flying to the western region of Osaka from northern Aomori to turn back for an emergency landing on Saturday, a company spokesperson said
June 22, 2024The death toll has climbed to 54 from consumption of tainted liquor in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, with more than 100 people still in hospital, a
June 22, 2024
Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin defended his frequent globe-trotting during his first 10 months as leader of the Southeast Asian nation, in remarks aired in a television
June 22, 2024
A nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier, the Theodore Roosevelt, arrived in the South Korean port city of Busan on Saturday to take part in joint military exercises later this month
June 22, 2024
India and Bangladesh on Saturday moved to bolster their defense relationship and signed agreements for expanding cooperation in maritime security, ocean economy, space, and telecommunication sectors, as New Delhi tries to present itself as a regional power and a counterweight to China
June 22, 2024
Six people who were missing were found dead by rescuers in Fujian province, state media reported Saturday, adding to the extreme weather deaths after downpours caused landslides in the area, even as authorities extended a warning of more severe weather ahead
June 22, 2024
China and the European Union have agreed to start talks on the planned imposition of tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles (EVs) being imported into the
June 22, 2024
Pope Francis has appointed Giuseppe Yang Yongqiang as bishop of Hangzhou, the capital of China's eastern province of Zhejiang, Vatican said on Saturday as it strives to
June 22, 2024
Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh will pay a working visit to China from June 24 to 27, and will attend a meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) during his trip, the
June 22, 2024
The lawyer for one of Iran's popular hip-hop artists and a critic of the regime Toomaj Salehi says the country's Supreme Court has overturned his death sentence
June 22, 2024
Emperor Naruhito of Japan and his wife Empress Masako have arrived in the U.K. ahead of their long-awaited official state visit
June 22, 2024
A senior U.S. diplomat has held talks in Vietnam and said that the trust between the two countries is at an “all-time high,” just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s state visit to Hanoi
June 22, 2024
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Sunday his country is not in the business of instigating wars and will always aim to settle disputes peacefully, amid
June 23, 2024
Taiwan's annual war games this year will be as close as possible to actual combat, no longer just putting on a show to score points but aiming to simulate real
June 23, 2024
A ferry between New Zealand's two main islands that ran aground on Friday night was successfully refloated late on Saturday, the government of the Pacific nation said.
June 22, 2024Afghanistan kept its Twenty20 World Cup semifinal hopes alive by stunning previously unbeaten Australia by 21 runs in a thrilling encounter
June 22, 2024
The president of the Philippines says his country will not yield to “any foreign power” after Chinese forces injured Filipino navy personnel and damaged at least two military boats with machetes, axes and hammers in a clash in the disputed South China Sea, but added the Philippines will never instigate a war
June 23, 2024
With their Islamic headscarves and high-octane metal music, the women of the Indonesian band Voice of Baceprot have played stages from the
June 23, 2024
The European Union is seeking security and defence industry partnerships with Japan and South Korea aimed at joint development of military equipment, the Nikkei reported on Sunday,
June 23, 2024
German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Sunday that China was indispensable to achieving global climate goals and must find a safe alternative to
June 23, 2024
New Caledonia’s public prosecutor says a pro-independence leader in the French Pacific territory has been transferred to a jail in mainland France to await trial for his alleged role in a recent deadly unrest
June 23, 2024
Afghanistan's Taliban government is due to send officials to Qatar next weekend to meet top U.N. officials and envoys from up to 25 countries for a two-
June 23, 2024
A cybersecurity intelligence company says a suspected Chinese state-sponsored hacking group has intensified attacks on Taiwanese organizations, particularly those in sectors such as the government, education and technology
June 24, 2024
Asian stocks rise after another slide for Wall Street heavyweight Nvidia kept U.S. indexes mixed Monday, even as the majority of stocks rallied
June 24, 2024
Before Emperor Naruhito of Japan hopped into a horse-drawn carriage with King Charles III, laid a wreath at Westminster Abbey or toured one of Britain’s premier biomedical research institutes, he kicked off his trip to the U.K. by visiting a site that has special meaning for him: The Thames Barrier
June 24, 2024
Polish President Andrzej Duda has met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for talks on Ukraine, peace and bilateral trade on a visit to Beijing that brings the leader of a NATO member to a country that has backed Russia in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine
June 24, 2024
South Korea’s military says North Korea has launched more balloons likely carrying trash toward South Korea
June 24, 2024
A fire likely sparked by exploding lithium batteries has swept through a manufacturing factory near South Korea’s capital, killing 22 mostly Chinese migrant workers and injuring eight
June 24, 2024
A senior British judge on Monday heard a protest-related case in Hong Kong involving seven high profile democrats, adding to the debate over
July 03, 2024
The Philippines' defence chief said China used "aggressive and illegal force" to disrupt a resupply mission in the South China Sea and said last week's maritime incident, which
June 24, 2024
Top North Korean military officials criticised the United States on Monday for its expanding military assistance to Ukraine and dispatch of one of its
July 03, 2024
Among the trash that balloons carried over the border from North were articles printed with Hello Kitty characters, badly worn clothing, and soil containing traces of human faeces and
July 03, 2024
The Bank of Japan debated in June the chance of a near-term interest rate hike with one policymaker calling for an increase "without too much delay" to address risks
July 03, 2024
Beijing wants the EU to scrap plans to impose preliminary tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports by July 4, China's state-controlled Global Times
July 03, 2024
India's economy needs an interest rate cut to sustain high growth, two external members of the central bank's rate panel said, arguing that food price shocks so far
July 03, 2024
Japan's banking regulator on Monday ordered the banking and securities units of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) to improve compliance measures after the
July 03, 2024
China is gravely concerned and firmly opposed to U.S. proposed rules for curbing certain investments in China, and reserves the right to take corresponding measures, the Chinese
June 24, 2024
China's fiscal revenue fell 2.8% in the first five months of 2024 from a year earlier, accelerating from a 2.7% decline in the January-April period, official data showed on Monday,
June 24, 2024
Democracy is not a crime and autocracy is the real "evil", Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Monday after China threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme
July 03, 2024
Indonesia's budget deficit is forecast to increase this year and may widen further as President-elect Prabowo Subianto implements his policy agenda, but revenue-side reforms could
June 24, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
June 23, 2024
Regulators in China are scouring social media platforms and censoring those deemed to be engaged in morally corrupt behavior.
June 24, 2024
Indonesia’s national data center has been compromised by a hacking group asking for a $8 million ransom that the government says it won’t pay
June 24, 2024
A Japanese transport ministry panel has proposed a number of air traffic control measures to boost safety
June 24, 2024
Discussions between Russia and North Korea about what Pyongyang gets in return for weapons supplies to Moscow could relate to North Korea's nuclear long-range missile development
July 03, 2024A man holding what appeared to be a knife attacked a bus used by a Japanese school in Suzhou, China, on Monday, seriously wounding a Chinese woman and injuring a Japanese woman and
July 03, 2024Heavy rains swamped the southern Chinese city of Changsha on Monday, turning roads into rivers and submerging pedestrian underpasses and subway tunnels.
July 03, 2024
Hyundai Motor's unionised workers in South Korea voted for possible strike action after talks with the company over wage increases and an extension of the retirement
July 03, 2024
A lithium battery factory in South Korea was set on fire after multiple batteries exploded on Monday, killing 22 workers,
July 03, 2024
Reconciliation talks between Hamas and Fatah due to be held in China this month have been delayed and no new date has been set,
July 03, 2024Chinese and Japanese coast guard vessels engaged in a stand off in around a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea on Monday, according to statements from both
July 03, 2024A Delhi city minister has started an indefinite hunger strike to demand more drinking water for India's capital, where taps in some of its poorest neighbourhoods
July 03, 2024
Moody's doesn't expect Japan to meet its fiscal 2025 primary budget-balancing target but that won't trigger negative ratings action because the goal is still a "
July 03, 2024
Thailand will resume sending agricultural workers to Israel this week after an eight-month hiatus, the Thai labour ministry said on Monday, with a target of having more than 10,000
July 03, 2024Hit with Chinese tariffs, Australia's wine industry struggled to offset the impact of falling exports despite scrambling to build new
July 03, 2024
A Philippine court acquitted the fiercest critic of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody "war on drugs" in the last of three narcotics cases on Monday.
July 03, 2024
A pro-independence movement in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia is demanding the “release and immediate return” of the Indigenous Kanak leader who was flown more than 10,000 miles to mainland France for pretrial detention
June 24, 2024
Rescue workers are combing through the charred ruins of a factory building near South Korea's capital to find any more victims of a fire that killed 22 people, mostly Chinese migrant workers
June 25, 2024
India's worsening water shortage, triggered by high consumption amid rapid economic growth and frequent natural disasters, can negatively impact the South Asian nation's
July 03, 2024
China's Premier Li Qiang used his address at a World Economic Forum meeting in Dalian to hit back at accusations from the U.S. and EU that Chinese
July 03, 2024
Hawaii authorities say the death toll from last year’s wildfire in Lahaina on the island of Maui has risen to 102
June 25, 2024
The Philippines is committed to working with China to develop "confidence building measures" to manage tensions in the South China Sea after last week's clash
July 03, 2024
The CEO of a South Korean lithium battery manufacturer apologised on Tuesday following a massive factory fire that killed 23
June 25, 2024
China's BYD launched its third electric vehicle in Japan, it said on Tuesday, a sedan that will be its most expensive model so far in a market where consumers have long favoured
July 03, 2024
The Philippine central bank (BSP) will keep its key policy rate on hold for a sixth consecutive meeting on Thursday, according to all economists polled by
July 03, 2024
Vietnamese automaker VinFast has a big problem: It just can’t sell enough cars
June 25, 2024
The Biden administration is investigating China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom over concerns the firms could exploit access to American data through
June 24, 2024
The price Japanese companies charge each other for services rose 2.5% in May from a year earlier, data showed on Tuesday, a sign prospects of steady wage increases are prompting more
July 03, 2024
Retailers in China face a daunting near-term future after a disappointing mid-year online shopping festival that has also clouded the recovery prospects of the
July 03, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets. The wave of profit-taking in U.S.
July 03, 2024
China on Monday dismissed Canadian complaints about what Ottawa said were "credible reports" of human rights violations in the western region of Xinjiang, saying Ottawa should focus
July 03, 2024
The U.S. should welcome more students from China, but to study the humanities rather than sciences, the second-ranked U.S. diplomat said
July 03, 2024
South Korea says North Korea is again flying balloons toward the South that are likely to be carrying trash
June 25, 2024
Indonesia’s national data center has been compromised by a hacking group asking for a $8 million ransom that the government says it won’t pay
June 25, 2024
The International Monetary Fund said on Monday its Executive Board has concluded a second review of Bangladesh's bailout program, giving the country immediate access to about $
July 03, 2024
A Hong Kong court on Tuesday began to hear pleas for lenient sentences from some prominent pro-democracy activists who were found guilty in the city’s biggest national security case and now face up to life in prison
June 25, 2024
A court in southern Nepal has convict a controversial spiritual leader known as “Buddha Boy” on charges of sexually assaulting a minor
June 25, 2024
Asian shares are mixed after a rebound for Nvidia propped up a weakened Wall Street
June 25, 2024
Taiwan's defence ministry said on Tuesday it is watching the movements of a Chinese aircraft carrier and assessing China's military activities as
December 03, 2024
A Hong Kong court's call for renewed public consultation on a plan to build 12,000 public homes on part of a prestigious golf course would not have a large impact on the city's
December 03, 2024
China has lifted trade restrictions on two Australian meat processing facilities, allowing the full resumption of red meat exports to the country, the Australian government
December 03, 2024
Indonesia's national human rights commission is investigating the death of a 13-year-old boy who was allegedly beaten to death by police on the island of Sumatra,
June 25, 2024Novo Nordisk's hugely popular weight-loss drug Wegovy has been approved in China, it said on Tuesday, the world's second-largest economy and the country estimated
June 25, 2024
In tears, Chae Sung-bum rushed to a battery factory on the outskirts of South Korea's capital on Tuesday hoping to find the body of his
June 25, 2024
Several entities linked to the Adani Group have approached the India markets regulator seeking to settle a case that accuses them of violating public shareholding regulations at some listed
December 03, 2024
A court in Vietnam on Tuesday upheld a death sentence for real estate tycoon Truong My Lan after rejecting her appeal against a conviction for embezzlement and bribery in a high-
December 03, 2024Nissan Motor will produce electric vehicles for its Chinese joint-venture partner Dongfeng Motor at its Wuhan factory by year-end, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Tuesday, a sign of
June 25, 2024
Mitigation pleas for Hong Kong's biggest ever national security trial against the city's democratic opposition kicked off on Tuesday, in what is
July 03, 2024
The Philippines is still seeking clarification from the Pentagon about a secret U.S. propaganda operation that aimed to cast doubt among Filipinos about Chinese vaccines at the
June 25, 2024
Chinese police have detained a man suspected of wounding three people, including two Japanese nationals, in a knife attack on a bus used by a Japanese school in the eastern city of
July 03, 2024An Indian court on Tuesday extended a hold on a lower court's order granting bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a graft case, leaving the key opposition leader in
July 03, 2024
Better known for its sandy beaches and Second World War wrecks, the tropical Pacific island of Saipan will soon host the final act of Julian Assange's 14-year legal
June 25, 2024
Shareholder support for the reappointment of SoftBank Group Chief Executive Masayoshi Son has fallen to 79.22% from 95.93% a year ago after proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder
June 25, 2024
Sri Lanka will sign a debt restructuring agreement with a group of creditor nations on Wednesday, the government said in a major step to help stabilise the
July 03, 2024
Japanese households are bearing the brunt of the central bank's snail-pace normalisation of loose monetary policy which is giving investors a perfect excuse to push
July 03, 2024
Seventy-four years after the Korean War began, North Korean troops are building new fortifications, occasionally inviting warning shots from South Korean counterparts
June 25, 2024
Shimao Group has sweetened its offshore debt restructuring terms to garner support from creditors, said three sources, as the Chinese property developer
July 03, 2024
Russia and India are preparing a visit to Russia by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian state news agency RIA quoted a Kremlin aide as saying on Tuesday.
July 03, 2024
The Bank of Japan is dropping signals its quantitative tightening (QT) plan in July could be bigger than markets think, and may even be accompanied by an interest rate
June 25, 2024
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