The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite reached all-time highs late June, thanks to renewed AI enthusiasm, hopes of U.S. trade deals and rising bets on interest rate cuts, which helped drive a turnaround ...

TOKYO -- A month after an upper house election where parties competed to tout plans for cash handouts and tax cuts, Goldman Sachs Japan President Hidehiro Imatsu, a longtime bond trader, told Nikkei ...

TOKYO -- Major Japanese corporations are staring at a 3.5 trillion yen ($23.6 billion) full-year impact on earnings from U.S.

TAIPEI (Reuters) -- Taiwan's economy is expected to grow faster in 2025 than previously forecast, the statistics agency said on Friday, as the island continues to reap the benefits of strong demand ...

HANOI -- The Vietnamese government announced Thursday a massive infrastructure development plan equivalent to 10% of the country's gross domestic product.

NEW DELHI -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday that he would not make any trade deal that harms India's farmers, sending a clear message to the U.S. as tensions grow over President ...

SINGAPORE -- Property tycoon Ong Beng Seng has been fined 30,000 Singapore dollars ($23,400) by a Singapore court on Friday over a gifts scandal involving a former cabinet minister that rocked the ...

Hello from Tokyo. This week marks the peak of Japan's summer holiday season, and the city's office districts are noticeably quieter than usual. Even our newsroom is running with a leaner team -- our ...

TOKYO/SHANGHAI -- A slew of Chinese economic data showed deterioration on Friday, suggesting that the trade war with the U.S. is weighing on the world's second-largest economy while the effects of ...

Hao Nan is a research fellow with the Charhar Institute and a nuclear futures fellow (2025-2026) with the Ploughshares Fund & Horizon 2045.

TOKYO -- Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed remorse for Japan's actions in World War II at a ceremony on Friday to mark 80 years since the end of the conflict.

KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia's economy faces a "challenging environment" in the second half of 2025 due to uncertainties around the impact of U.S. trade tariffs, the country's central bank said Friday.