Walt Disney Co and Reliance Industries won approval on Wednesday for an $8.5 billion merger of their Indian media assets after assuaging
August 28, 2024
JAKARTA - Indonesia's anti-graft agency plans to ask the youngest son of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to clarify his use of a private jet on a recent overseas trip as well as who paid for the travel
August 28, 2024
Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD reported improved net profits in the second quarter thanks to its extended market leadership, even though it led a protracted price war with
August 28, 2024
Yoon Hyeonjeong, a 19-year-old South Korean activist, says the fate of her years-long fight for more action to tackle climate change hinges on what could be a landmark
August 28, 2024
Chinese food delivery giant Meituan posted a bigger than expected 21% rise in second-quarter revenue on Wednesday, defying a slowing Chinese economy.
August 28, 2024
Some Hong Kong developers are now turning to housing rental and the leasing market to weather a prolonged downturn in its property market and to serve surging rental
August 28, 2024
South Korea's parliament passed a bill on Wednesday that allows nurses to perform some medical procedures normally conducted by doctors as the healthcare workers
August 28, 2024
Malaysia's civil aviation regulator has cut the duration of Malaysia Airlines' air operator certificate to one year from three years,
August 28, 2024
Air China and China Southern Airlines will become the second and third Chinese carriers to fly China's homegrown COMAC C919 passenger jet after receiving their first planes on
August 28, 2024
Hyundai Motor said on Wednesday it was targeting annual global sales of 5.55 million vehicles by 2030, up 30% from 2023, as it plans to double its
August 28, 2024
South Korean authorities called on Telegram and other social media platforms on Wednesday to work together with them in deleting and blocking sexually explicit deepfake
August 28, 2024
A typhoon moving at a bicycle speed has begun dumping rain on parts of Japan, leaving one person dead and several injured as weather officials issued the highest-level warnings in the country’s south, expected to be the most hard-hit
August 28, 2024
Thailand's monetary policy committee makes decisions based on the economic outlook when reviewing rates and so would adjust them if the
August 28, 2024
When the Vatican acknowledged in 2022 that the Nobel Peace Prize-winning, East Timorese independence hero Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo had sexually abused young boys, it appeared that the global clergy sexual abuse scandal that has compromised the Catholic Church’s credibility around the world had finally arrived in Asia’s newest country
August 28, 2024
The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has returned to the headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile in northern India after undergoing a knee replacement surgery in New York
August 28, 2024
Thousands of protesters blocked train tracks, halted buses and shouted slogans in India's state of West Bengal on Wednesday in the latest demonstration
August 28, 2024
Top Macau judge Sam Hou Fai announced on Wednesday his intention to run in October elections for the territory's chief executive, as the world's biggest gambling hub tries to
August 28, 2024
Leaders of several Pacific Islands have endorsed an Australian-funded A$400 million ($271 million) plan to improve police training and create a
August 28, 2024
Losses for several big technology companies pulled the stock market lower
August 28, 2024
Two journalists who led a now-closed Hong Kong online news outlet will hear a verdict in their sedition case on Thursday
August 28, 2024
Southwestern Japan braced on Wednesday for what officials say could be one of the strongest storms to ever hit the region, as some residents in the path of Typhoon
August 27, 2024
As the cage holding an endangered Formosan black bear swung open conservationists blasted gunshots and air horns to
August 27, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
August 27, 2024
Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a visit to China next week to discuss cooperation on the economy, agriculture and satellite
August 27, 2024
The electric vehicle unit of embattled real estate developer China Evergrande said on Tuesday it expected to report a bigger loss for the first half of 2024, reflecting an increase in
August 27, 2024
GM to lay off about 1,700 workers at Kansas plant
Ireland drops plans for hate speech law, minister says
Tens of thousands of bees found living in a Maine family’s farmhouse
Russia says it will take no part in follow-up to 'peace summit'
France unveils a more right-wing government after deadlock
Sullivan expresses worry over escalating Israel-Lebanon tension, calls Hezbollah strike as justice served
WNBA playoffs set to begin Sunday with all four first-round series getting underway
She was born blind, but she travels the world by herself
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