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

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

TOKYO -- Japan's ispace seeks to become Asia's first private sector company to land successfully on the moon, but it is increasingly clear that support from the public sphere will be key. The ...

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 -- At 84, micro-lending guru Prof. Muhamad Yunus has accumulated international tributes and media accolades galore, ...

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 ...

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

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

Raj Kumar Sharma is a Ministry of Foreign Affairs Taiwan fellow at the Department of Diplomacy and Center for India Studies at National Chengchi University, Taipei.

Nintendo released its new game console, the Nintendo Switch 2, on Thursday. However, due to supply constraints and a strict ...

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