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 ...

NEW YORK -- An American startup backed by Volkswagen and Japan's Kyocera has developed a separator that it says reduces the ...

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.

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 ...

TOKYO -- Japan's Mitsubishi Corp. said Friday that it will indirectly take a stake in leading Philippine fintech company Global Fintech Innovations, better known as Mynt, as it looks to bolster ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -- North Korea has shipped 1,500 special forces troops to Russia's far east for training and acclimatizing at local military bases and will likely be deployed for combat in the war in ...

SEOUL (AP) -- South Korea's spy agency said Friday that North Korea has dispatched troops to support Russia's war against Ukraine. If confirmed, the move would bring a third country into the war and ...

Nikkei spoke with Kenneth Weinstein, Japan chair at the Hudson Institute, who was nominated by former President Donald Trump to be the U.S. ambassador to Japan.

KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia will introduce a new dividend income tax on individuals and expand the target of its sales and ...

(Reuters) -- Kotak Mahindra Bank will buy Standard Chartered Bank's personal loan business in India, the Indian lender said on Friday, leaving the U.K.-based company to focus on its wealth and ...

BANGKOK -- Increasingly frequent confrontations between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea this year should ...