Why it matters: Trump said last month he exchanged messages with Xi after winning the election but didn't confirm they spoke. The president-elect has promised to implement aggressive tariffs on imports from China and could also be forced to determine the fate of TikTok upon taking office.

Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka has been left lamenting yet another abdominal issue as her promising Australian Open campaign came to a sad end.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, reached Kobe on the third day of his Japan visit, during which he interacted with the Indian diaspora and visited Sysmex Corporation office, a leading company in the health sector,

Korean Air will initially fly its long-range A350-900s on short-haul flights to Japan before flying to Europe later in the year.

Australian stocks opened higher, extending gains in the previous session. Futures show, Japan stocks to open higher. Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and China markets are closed for Lunar New Year holidays.

On the campaign trail last year, President Donald Trump talked tough about imposing tariffs as high as 60% on Chinese goods and threatened to renew the trade war with China that he launched during his first term.

Tourism, climate goals and animal rights concerns are sparking a plant-based renaissance in a country famous for sushi and pork ramen.

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Scientists in China have manipulated embryonic stem cells to create laboratory mice with two male parents that managed to live to adulthood – though with significant developmental abnormalities – in what they are calling a noteworthy achievement in mammalian genetic engineering.

China's Lunar New Year travel period, known as Chunyun in Chinese, is the world's largest annual migration of people that will see up to 9 billion domestic trips over a 40-day period. While the majority of travel takes place by road, air travel is still a significant part of the experience.

There are still no prospects of a full recovery for the Chinese economy, which has continued to stagnate. If the new U.S. president, Donald Trump, implements a wave of high tariffs, China could become a risk factor for the global economy.

Department store sales in Japan in 2024 totaled 5.75 trillion yen, surpassing the pre-coronavirus pandemic levels of 2019 amid inbound tourism boom, data by an industry body showed Friday. Sales on a same-store basis increased 6.