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

TOKYO -- Japan's ispace seeks to become Asia's first private sector company to land successfully on the moon, but it is ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

But asked if another meeting could spur progress, Balakrishnan said, "Time has moved on since the past seven years, and actually the question of nuclear proliferation now, it goes beyond just North ...

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