Outbound shipments rose 5.8% from a year ago to $325 billion in June, up from a 4.8% expansion in May, driven by growing demand from ASEAN and the European Union, despite further sharp declines in ...

TOKYO -- Citizen Watch will step up its marketing in North America, President and CEO Yoshitaka Oji told Nikkei in an interview. The Japanese watchmaker over the next couple of years will introduce ...

YANGON -- Myanmar's military is pressing ahead with a plan to hold a general election in the next six months, despite ...

HONG KONG -- More than five years ago, when New World Development asked banks in Hong Kong for a billion-dollar syndicated loan to fund the construction of a lavish shopping mall by the city's airport ...

KUALA LUMPUR -- ASEAN projected its growing global influence last week as ministers from major powers gathered in Kuala Lumpur for the bloc's annual ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), but this stood in stark ...

SINGAPORE -- Singapore is hoping that its biggest initial public offering in years will stir investor interest for the city-state's market, which observers say has stalled in attracting notable ...

The DeepSeek moment has been likened to the Sputnik moment of the 1950s, when technologists in the U.S. -- the world's most ...

TOKYO -- Japanese trading company Itochu plans to begin operating in 2028 a vessel that supplies ammonia fuel to other ships, ...

KUSHIRO, Japan (Kyodo) -- A Taiwanese rocket crashed shortly after lifting off from a private spaceport in northern Japan, ...

China and Russia declared a "no limits" partnership in February 2022 when Putin visited Beijing, days before he sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine. Putin has sometimes described China as an ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told Russia's top diplomat his country was ready to "unconditionally ...

MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican government has partly lifted a blanket ban on exporting the totoaba, a large fish prized in China ...