BANGKOK/HANOI/SINGAPORE -- Southeast Asian countries are scrambling to tackle falling birth rates, with Vietnam abolishing ...

TOKYO -- Activist investors have targeted at least 50 Japanese companies with shareholder proposals so far in 2025, a record ...

TOKYO -- Prices of rare-earth metals remain close to record highs, elevated by sudden scarcity due to Chinese export curbs, with little relief expected soon on these critical materials for advanced ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Nippon Steel and the Trump administration on Thursday asked a U.S. appeals court to extend a pause in ...

SEOUL -- South Korea's newly inaugurated President Lee Jae-myung and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed Washington's tariff policy as well as their golfing skills in their first phone conversation ...

TOKYO -- Japanese financial services group SBI Holdings is investing around $50 million in Circle Internet Group, issuer of the dollar-backed USDC stablecoin, in hopes of helping the virtual currency ...

The cargo ship Morning Midas, carrying approximately 3,000 vehicles, including around 800 EVs, was abandoned on Tuesday after ...

NAGOYA, Japan -- Toyota Motor Chairman Akio Toyoda said he is personally investing in the buyout of supplier Toyota Industries to help the group "regain its identity," but "that doesn't mean the ...

BRUSSELS -- Japan and the European Union have begun talks on easing mutual disease-induced food import bans by applying the ...

HANOI/TOKYO -- Vietnam Airlines plans to raise 22 trillion dong ($844 million) by issuing shares and purchase 50 new aircraft on the heels of its first net profit in five years, part of a comeback ...

Data showed nonfarm payrolls increased by 139,000 jobs last month after rising by a downwardly revised 147,000 in April. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast payrolls advancing by 130,000 jobs.

TOKYO -- The AI memory chip business is becoming more specialized but also more reliant on a small number of "locked-in" ...