TOKYO -- Some of Japan's biggest companies are helping employees achieve doctoral degrees, taking matters into their own hands in a country where such talent is becoming harder to find.

Luke de Pulford is founder and executive director of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, the world's largest political initiative on the subject. Previously he co-founded and ran the ...

TOKYO -- Takeda Pharmaceutical aims to sell a vaccine for dengue in Japan as more business travelers go to Southeast Asian and Latin American destinations where the mosquito-borne viral disease is ...

KYIV -- North Korean troops fighting in Russia are gaining the combat skills to make their country a more dangerous security threat in Asia, a senior Ukrainian military intelligence official said.

ISTANBUL (AP) -- Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday, two days after their imprisoned leader called for the group to disarm. The statement ...

Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated Zelenskyy during a bitter meeting at the White House on Friday, leaving the alliance that has underpinned Ukraine's resistance to Russia's invasion seemingly ...

HANOI (Reuters) -- Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said on Saturday the government wanted to rapidly issue a licence for Elon Musk's Starlink to provide satellite internet in the country ...

Japan's Ibaraki Airport is trying to cement its status as a third hub in the Kanto region centering on Tokyo, along with Narita and Haneda airports. Deliberations a ...

Craft beer brewery PandaBrew, based in the small city of Anshun, Guizhou province, in western China, recently started ...

The official purchasing managers' index (PMI) was 50.2 in February, a three-month high, compared to 49.1 in January and above the 50-mark separating growth from contraction. It beat a median forecast ...

DALIAN, China -- A mobile app is helping young Chinese consumers build up their savings bit by bit and have fun in the ...

Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated Zelenskyy during a bitter meeting at the White House on Friday, leaving the alliance that has underpinned Ukraine's resistance to Russia's invasion seemingly ...