Japanese private power supplier eRex has started construction on two 50-megawatt biomass power plants in Vietnam with a ...

WASHINGTON -- South Korea's Hanwha group has its eye on further acquisitions of U.S. shipyards, the head of the group's American defense subsidiary told reporters on Thursday. "We're not done," said ...

TOKYO -- Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp. and marine shipping company Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha are launching a business to ship carbon dioxide from Japan to the U.S. and store it underground in ...

VIENTIANE -- New Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's vision for a NATO-style security framework in Asia is not finding a receptive audience in Southeast Asia, amid worries that it could deepen ...

TOKYO -- Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway set the terms Thursday for its second-largest yen bond sale to date, raising 281.8 billion yen ($1.9 billion) that market watchers say may be firepower ...

SINGAPORE -- ChatGPT developer OpenAI will open an office in Singapore, its second location in Asia following one in Japan. The Singapore office will serve as OpenAI's hub for bolstering relations ...

VIENTIANE -- Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Chinese Premier Li Qiang confirmed Thursday that their countries will promote a "mutually beneficial relationship based on common strategic ...

The consumer price index increased 0.2% last month after gaining 0.2% in August, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Thursday. In the 12 months through September, the CPI climbed ...

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

KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia's Top Glove, the world's largest rubber glove manufacturer, reported a net loss of 61.8 million ringgit ($14.4 million) for the fiscal year that ended in August, marking a ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -- South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life," the ...

HONG KONG -- China and Hong Kong stocks rebounded on Thursday after steep drops on Wednesday, as the central bank announced the start of a key operation to prop up the market.