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MANILA -- Hospitality and prop-tech firm Hotel101 is set to start trading on the Nasdaq on Tuesday, a first for a Philippine ...
HANOI -- Vietnamese lawmakers recently approved changes to the country's nationality law, making it easier for overseas Vietnamese and others to become dual citizens, as the leadership tries to ...
TOKYO -- Seiko Hashimoto, a seven-time Olympian and former Cabinet minister, was last week elected as the first woman ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department announced criminal charges Monday in a scheme by North Korea to fund its weapons ...
NEW TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Foxlink, a longtime provider of components to Apple, is looking to ride the artificial intelligence boom to transform itself into an AI robotic software supplier by 2030, a ...
TAIPEI -- Britain's first ministerial visit to Taiwan under the current Labour government resulted in three pacts on ...
BENGALURU -- India's Hindustan Zinc is eyeing rare earth minerals but kickstarting production could take up to five years, a top executive told Nikkei Asia, highlighting the difficulties in building a ...
KOFU, Japan (Kyodo) -- Mount Fuji's climbing season commenced on Tuesday, the first day of July, as the mountain's most popular trail opened with local authorities charging a doubled fee of 4,000 yen ...
TOKYO -- Canada has shipped its first ever cargo of liquefied natural gas, unleashing a source of the super-chilled fuel that could boost Asia's energy security in the face of tight global supply.
HONG KONG -- Barry Wood, an international economics correspondent for Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), received an unexpected call on May 22 that brought his three-decade career at the broadcaster ...
SHANGHAI -- Mainland Chinese investors have poured a record 680 billion yuan ($94.8 billion) into the Hong Kong stock market ...
The Bank of Japan on Tuesday released its quarterly Tankan survey, with the headline diffusion index (DI) among large manufacturers coming in at 13, slightly up compared with plus 12 in January-March.