South Korea on Tuesday marked the 10th anniversary of the country's worst maritime disaster, when hundreds of schoolchildren died after the overloaded Sewol ferry capsized and sank.
Chinese businesses are hoarding dollars because they expect their own currency to weaken, and that in turn is exacerbating a slide in the yuan that has been driven by wobbly stock markets and feeble growth in the world's second largest economy.
The views are spectacular in this corner of eastern Nepal, between the world’s highest mountains and the tea estates of India’s Darjeeling district, where rare orchids grow and red pandas play on the lush hillsides.
Nissan will use gigacasting, a manufacturing process pioneered by Tesla, to make part of its electric vehicles as the automaker joins global rivals in pursuing the innovation to cut costs.
Honda plans to launch six next-generation electric vehicle models branded Ye in China by 2027, the automaker said on Tuesday.
A bill to introduce joint custody for divorced parents passed the Lower House on Tuesday, bringing Japan closer to adopting a practice seen in other countries.
The hostile new world French President Emmanuel Macron has been warning Europeans about is rapidly emerging, but Macron is still struggling to persuade partners to trust his judgment.
Kioxia Holdings plans to go public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as early as October, even as some executives hope to revive merger talks with Western Digital.
Japan's Fair Trade Commission may take administrative action against U.S. technology giant Google shortly over its digital advertising business, informed sources said Tuesday.
The Environment Ministry on Tuesday added black bears and brown bears to the list of wild animals subject to the "designated wildlife species for control," a status that includes partial government subsidies for hunting costs.
While the fallout from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's slush fund scandal will continue to reverberate during this month's round of by-elections, one of the three districts set to vote has a rocky past of its own — one of scandals and political misconduct.
John Bolton has called for Israel to respond to Iran’s massive, failed weekend missile barrage by destroying its nuclear fuel facilities.
European governments due to move to support their solar power manufacturers this week will be too late to stop solar panel-maker Meyer Burger packing up a German factory to send production to the United States.
The security environment around Japan is at its “most severe and complex (point) in the postwar era,” as Tokyo and its allies grapple with multiple challenges from China, North Korea and Russia, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday in its annual diplomatic policy paper.
The U.S. Army has deployed its new Typhon midrange ground-based missile launcher to the Indo-Pacific region for the first time, for joint military exercises in the northern Philippines — a move likely to unnerve China.
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The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has headed to the demilitarized zone dividing the two Koreas, ramping up pressure on North Korea after sanctions enforcement was dealt a heavy blow by a recent Russian veto.
Secondhand smoke induces the cancerous mutation of genes that are different from those affected among active smokers, increasing the risk of lung cancer among nonsmokers, according to a recent study by the National Cancer Center Japan.
The British Parliament is set to finally approve a divisive law this week to pave the way for asylum-seekers to be deported to Rwanda, but further legal hurdles could yet hold up or derail one of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's key policies.
India’s ability to turn its economic expansion into corporate profits makes it a better prospect for investors than Japan or China, according to the latest Bloomberg Markets Live Pulse survey.
Organizers of the Paris Olympics have promised a "great national party" for the country, but with 100 days to go, France's bitter politics and gloomy mindset are dampening the mood.
A tumbling yen is spurring traders to game plan how much further Japan’s beleaguered currency can fall even with the specter of intervention looming.
Israelis awaited word on how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would respond to Iran's first-ever direct attack on their country as international pressure for restraint grew amid fears of an escalation of conflict in the Middle East.
The Iranian-Israeli war has now emerged from the shadows with the barrage of over 300 drones, rockets and cruise missiles Iran launched at Israel. Along with the U.S. military and other partners, the Israel Defense Forces were able to intercept 99% of them.
The Philippines will invoke its defense treaty with the U.S. if a Filipino soldier dies from a foreign attack, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has said, in remarks that come amid growing tensions with China.
