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

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

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

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

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 ...

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" ...

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

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

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 ...

Newly inaugurated South Korean President Lee Jae-myung should not blunt progress toward improved relations between his nation ...