BANGKOK/HANOI/SINGAPORE -- Southeast Asian countries are scrambling to tackle falling birth rates, with Vietnam abolishing ...

TOKYO -- Activist investors have targeted at least 50 Japanese companies with shareholder proposals so far in 2025, a record ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Nippon Steel and the Trump administration on Thursday asked a U.S. appeals court to extend a pause in ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- President Donald Trump on Friday signed executive orders to bolster U.S. defenses against threatening ...

NEW YORK -- Representatives from the U.S. and China will meet in London next week to discuss a bilateral trade deal, U.S. President Donald Trump announced on his Truth Social platform on Friday.

SEOUL -- South Korea's newly inaugurated President Lee Jae-myung and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed Washington's tariff policy as well as their golfing skills in their first phone conversation ...

TOKYO -- Prices of rare-earth metals remain close to record highs, elevated by sudden scarcity due to Chinese export curbs, with little relief expected soon on these critical materials for advanced ...

TOKYO -- Japanese financial services group SBI Holdings is investing around $50 million in Circle Internet Group, issuer of the dollar-backed USDC stablecoin, in hopes of helping the virtual currency ...

HANOI/TOKYO -- Vietnam Airlines plans to raise 22 trillion dong ($844 million) by issuing shares and purchase 50 new aircraft on the heels of its first net profit in five years, part of a comeback ...

TOKYO -- The AI memory chip business is becoming more specialized but also more reliant on a small number of "locked-in" ...

The cargo ship Morning Midas, carrying approximately 3,000 vehicles, including around 800 EVs, was abandoned on Tuesday after ...

MUMBAI -- The Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday slashed its key policy rate to its lowest level in nearly three years, ...