TOKYO -- Seven & i Holdings, owner of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, has vowed to sharpen its focus on its core convenience store business as it scrambles to raise its corporate value, a task ...

VIENTIANE -- New Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba made his diplomatic debut on Thursday, participating in a meeting with his Southeast Asian counterparts in Laos. "This is my first visit ...

TOKYO -- Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing on Thursday announced that it expects net profit to reach 385 billion yen ($2.6 billion) for the year ending August 2025, which would mark a record high for the ...

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is pushing for an "earnest" dialogue to resolve South China Sea disputes with Beijing. He is also urging his fellow ASEAN leaders to get in front of the issue ...

TAIPEI -- Taiwan will remain a responsible global actor while defending its sovereignty and democracy in the face of global conflicts and chaos, President Lai Ching-te said Thursday in a closely ...

TOKYO -- Global investors look unlikely to rotate money out of Japanese shares into China's stock rally, according to brokerages.

BENGALURU -- Ravi Handa was among thousands of investors who lost a combined $230 million in a cyberattack theft this summer on WazirX, a now-defunct Indian cryptocurrency exchange. Remarkably, it ...

HONG KONG -- China's government is intimidating Chinese residents in Japan who are involved in activities critical of Beijing, according to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) published on Thursday.

For more than three years, wartime atrocities in Myanmar have been in plain sight for anyone willing to look. As pro-democracy and ethnic resistance groups fight against the military junta that seized ...

TOKYO -- Japanese restaurant chain Saizeriya, known for its Italian food at rock-bottom prices, reported its first record-high annual net profit in 14 years thanks in large part to China, where its ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. and Japan will begin a feasibility study in the coming days to speed up efforts toward co-production of air-to-air missiles to shore up American stockpiles that have been ...