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 ...

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

Losing out to Warren Buffett convinced us to diversify into credit ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the coming decades, the Asia-Pacific region faces a series of challenges that threaten to exacerbate poverty. Among these, ...

BANGKOK -- The fall and rise of Thailand's two latest prime ministers can be traced in the share prices of their family ...