PAKSE, Laos -- Chinese businessman Tao Jian spends an entire day navigating muddy roads on the Bolaven Plateau in southern Laos, inspecting his durian empire of 50,000 trees. The area is nicknamed the ...

Women spend a quarter more of their lives in poor health than men do, much of it during their most productive years. Addressing this women's health gap could add a trillion U.S. dollars annually to ...

TOKYO -- Japanese energy company J-Power plans to scale back its U.S. fossil-fuel power generation business by selling as many as nine of 11 stakes in plants it holds, looking to use the funds to ...

The 2000s were a profoundly challenging and turbulent time for the U.S., marked by a series of unprecedented crises that tested the resilience of individuals, corporations and the nation as a whole.

In July 1979, U.S. President Jimmy Carter gave his famous "Malaise Speech" in which he diagnosed Americans with a crisis of confidence in themselves. Japan today faces a similar crisis of confidence, ...

(Reuters) -- Thousands of North Korean troops are being prepared to fight on Russia's behalf in Ukraine and some North Korean ...

TOKYO -- A group of 16 Japanese young people will sue some of Japan's biggest utilities in court proceedings starting next week to argue that youth has a fundamental human right to be protected from ...

A section of the road and rail links with South Korea is blasted to completely block the links off, according to North Korea's state media, at an undisclosed location along North Korea's southern ...

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Millennials have been the first generation to benefit from a massive focus on education ...

TOKYO -- Spending by foreign visitors to Japan reached 5.86 trillion yen ($39.1 billion) yen for the first nine months of the year, topping 2023's record full-year tally of 5.31 trillion yen with ...

Deng Xiaoping understood the importance of regularly renewing leadership with younger, well-prepared individuals. For the past four decades, China has methodically groomed the next generation of ...