China’s population policy is emerging as a key part of its economic strategy as Beijing rolls out its most wide-ranging push ...

Some Bank of Japan policymakers see scope to raise interest rates sooner than markets expect with April a distinct ...

The yen was little changed against the dollar on Thursday as investors expected a Bank of Japan intervention to ⁠shore up the ...

AOMORI—Rising seawater temperatures are believed to have killed more than 80 percent of scallop fry before harvesting at ...

One man was killed and another man injured after being stabbed while serving a forcible eviction court order at an apartment ...

BEIJING--In China, the names of things are often either ornately poetic or jarringly direct. A new, wildly popular app among ...

As the dry, freezing winter air envelops his home, 72-year-old farmer He Wenxiang sits on a bed wearing several layers of ...

WASHINGTON--The U.S. and Taiwan clinched a trade deal on Thursday that cuts tariffs on many of the semiconductor powerhouse’s ...

BANGKOK--The military government of Myanmar, long noted as one of the world’s biggest producers of heroin and methamphetamine ...

BANGKOK--A construction crane collapsed onto an elevated road near Bangkok, killing two people on Thursday, a day after ...

Japan’s economy is returning to something resembling normality for the first time in decades. That’s likely to mean more ...

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