SEOUL -- Following Lee Jae-myung's victory in South Korea's presidential election, the U.S. State Department issued a statement filled with standard phrases touting the "ironclad commitment" to the ...

TOKYO -- Thirty-six years after Chinese authorities violently suppressed unarmed students and other civilians in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, dedicated groups and individuals ...

MUMBAI -- India has more than 4,300 active coronavirus cases as of Wednesday, as subvariants of the relatively less-fatal Omicron variant continue to spread, mirroring a wider revival of the disease ...

SEOUL -- Newly inaugurated President Lee Jae-myung put a stronger economy and domestic stock market front and center of his ...

TOKYO -- The total number of births of Japanese citizens residing in the country in 2024 was 686,061, down 5.7% from the previous year, according to figures released Wednesday by the Ministry of ...

Tax-free sales at Japan's department stores have fallen in recent months, suggesting that high-end consumption by foreign visitors to Japan has peaked. Despite rising numbers of tourists visiting ...

NEW YORK -- With U.S. President Donald Trump saying his tariffs on China and other countries will help rebuild manufacturing ...

SEOUL -- South Koreans voted Tuesday in an out-of-cycle presidential election, following the ouster of former President Yoon Suk Yeol over his botched attempt to impose martial law in early December.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has already cut interest rates twice since February to 3.85% and the minutes of the May policy meeting showed that it was open to an outsized half-point move as U.S.

PHNOM PENH -- A Cambodian soldier was killed when Thai and Cambodian troops exchanged fire across the border on May 28.

The three broadcasters projected Lee to win 37.2% of young men's votes, leading Kim Moon-soo with 36.9% and far ahead of Lee Jae-myung with 24%. It was the only group that Lee Jun-seok held a lead in, ...

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan has decided to upgrade its diplomatic relationship with Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and to send an ambassador to Kabul, highlighting Islamabad's drastic change in its neighborhood ...