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SINGAPORE -- An election rally held last week by Singapore's main opposition Workers' Party drew thousands to an open field still wet from earlier rain. As the crowd pressed toward the stage, mud ...
TAOYUAN, Taiwan -- Taiwan's leading maker of chip substrate and printed circuit boards expects robust demand from high-end AI data centers for 2025 if the tariff war between the U.S. and China does ...
BOSTON (Reuters) -- President Donald Trump's administration on Monday said it was probing whether Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review violated civil rights laws when the journal's editors ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared a three-day ceasefire in May in the war with Ukraine to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union and its ...
TOKYO -- Amnesty International issued a dire warning on the state of global human rights in its annual report published on ...
TOKYO -- Japanese electronic measuring instrument maker Anritsu will acquire Austria's Dewetron for 54 million euro ($61.6 million) with an eye on expanding its sales network.
SINGAPORE -- Malaysia's private UCSI University will provide a basic course in Japan starting in April 2026 to help prepare Japanese students seeking to study abroad, hoping to draw more to Malaysia.
TOKYO -- Japan's top life insurance companies plan to reduce their holdings of Japanese government bonds by 1.3 trillion yen ($9.1 billion) overall in fiscal 2025, in a shift from their response to ...
TOKYO -- Roughly a decade has passed since MUFG Bank, Japan's largest lender by assets, set its sights on ASEAN as a key ...
The Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) between India and Pakistan has long been hailed as a rare success in transboundary water ...
SHANGHAI/TOKYO -- Amid the cutthroat competition of the Chinese electric vehicle market, EV makers at this year's Auto Shanghai expo are tapping their creative wells to distinguish themselves from ...
TOKYO -- Major Japanese travel agencies are focusing more on demand from overseas, with a weak yen and rising prices keeping ...