SEOUL (Reuters) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his reclusive country had overcome recession and accomplished major ...

On a sunny but chilly mid-January day, workers are busy constructing four towering dome-shaped tanks on a plot of land overlooking Kinuura Bay, a popular local fishing spot in Japan's Aichi prefecture ...

TOKYO -- Japanese companies with smaller market values are being sidelined while blue-chip stocks surge to record highs as the Takaichi trade rakes in capital.

MANILA/HO CHI MINH CITY/KUALA LUMPUR -- Southeast Asia was a tale of two regions in 2025, as countries like Vietnam and Singapore recorded strong export growth despite U.S. tariff turbulence while the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. President Donald Trump warned Iran on Thursday it must make a deal over its nuclear program or "really bad things" will happen, and set a deadline of 10 to 15 days, ...

"One day in the market I really put my foot in my mouth," says Dennis (not his real name), one of the few expats who continue to live and work in Yangon five years after a February 2021 coup sent ...

The share of payments made with cash fell to 35.3% last year from 43.1% in 2020, while credit cards rose to 36.3% from 26.7% ...

TOKYO -- East Japan Railway, or JR East, plans to soon train 113 foreign workers in maintaining and repairing railcars and ...

TOKYO -- Japanese oil company Idemitsu Kosan on Thursday unveiled a solar farm it built at a rice paddy in southern Japan, ...

HONG KONG -- Next month, Hong Kong officials are set to announce the winners of the city's first licenses to issue ...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump convened the first official meeting of his Board of Peace in Washington Thursday, ...

The trade deficit narrowed 0.2% to $901.5 billion in 2025. The goods trade gap widened 2.1% to an all-time high of $1.24 ...