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

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 ...

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 -- 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 ...

HONG KONG -- Prominent Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong was charged on Friday with another national security offense: conspiring to collude with foreign countries or external elements to ...

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.

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

MUMBAI -- The Reserve Bank of India cut its key policy rate on Friday by an unexpectedly sharp 50 basis points to 5.5%, its ...

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, ...

MUMBAI -- The Reserve Bank of India on Friday cut its key policy rate by an unexpectedly sharp 50 basis points to 5.5%, its ...