NEW YORK -- This week's fatal explosion at a U.S. Steel facility is testing Nippon Steel's management two months after it acquired the company, bringing the risk of costs increases on top of $11 ...

TOKYO -- PayPay, a Japanese mobile payment app owned by SoftBank Group, announced Friday that it has applied to list its shares on an unidentified U.S. stock exchange.

JAKARTA -- Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto outlined Friday his budget plans for next year, including a 7% increase in government spending and a 5.4% growth target, putting more emphasis on his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 -- 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.