This comes as institutional investors step up pressure on companies to unwind "strategic" shareholdings -- commonly used in Japan to maintain business relationships -- that do not contribute to growth ...

SEOUL -- South Korea conducted a nationwide civilian evacuation drill simulating a North Korean air raid on Thursday, hoping to improve public safety in the event of a nuclear or chemical weapons ...

HONG KONG -- Baidu's online marketing revenue fell in the April-June quarter, as the Chinese search engine leader's push into artificial intelligence failed to boost its biggest revenue source amid ...

TOKYO -- Japan's MUFG Bank announced on Thursday that it will invest an additional 27.9 billion rupees ($332 million) in ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) -- Thailand on Thursday confirmed an mpox case reported this week was the clade 1b strain of the virus, the second confirmed case of the variant outside of Africa. The case is a ...

HONG KONG -- Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical, one of the largest crude oil buyers in China, revealed on Thursday that it ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -- India overtook China as the world's biggest importer of Russian oil in July as Chinese refiners bought less because of lower profit margins from producing fuels, a comparison of ...

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) has lost its largest client in the Chinese mainland amid a wave of client departures ...

SINGAPORE/JAKARTA -- Southeast Asia's biggest technology stars are fighting to retain their sparkle in the eyes of fickle ...

The Chinese game market has been dominated by smartphone games, but console games are gradually gaining ground. The success of Black Myth is expected to add momentum to this shift and could kickstart ...

TOKYO -- Japan's Nippon Steel and JFE Steel announced Thursday that they will invest a total of $1.08 billion in a coal mine owned by Australian coal producer Whitehaven, aiming to secure long-term ...

This time exactly one year ago on Aug. 22, 2023, Hun Sen, the prime minister for nearly four decades, handed over power to ...