BANGKOK (AP) -- A powerful ethnic armed group in western Myanmar claimed Friday to have scored a major victory in the war against the ruling military, even as neighboring nations at a meeting in ...

TOKYO -- Japan's local communities are promoting geoparks to revitalize their regions by highlighting their unique geology and combining this with sustainable tourism and education. Serving to protect ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -- Demonstrators supporting and opposing South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol held rival protests several hundred meters apart in Seoul on Saturday, a week after he was impeached over ...

Aichi University, an institution that traces its roots to Shanghai, aims to set up an Ezra Vogel Library by mid-2025. It will draw on a Vogel family donation of over 3,600 books, documents, journals, ...

The Australian miner, the world's biggest producer of rare earths outside China, is slated to begin processing heavy rare ...

NAHA, Japan -- The number of foreign residents in Japan's subtropical Okinawa prefecture has soared 50% in two and a half years, with overseas workers flocking to opportunities in hospitality and ...

WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -- Qualcomm's central processors are properly licensed under an agreement with Arm Holdings, a jury found in a trial in U.S. federal court that removed some, but not all ...

SINGAPORE -- Chin Shyong, a 39-year-old Malaysian working in Singapore, is not convinced about going back to his life in ...

KATHMANDU -- Until the 1950s, Nepal's Kathmandu Valley was a place many had heard of but few had seen. That enigmatic image ...

NAGOYA, Japan -- Toyota Motor released no brand-new or fully redesigned models in Japan this year due to delays stemming from a series of group certification scandals, putting it at risk of a decline ...

SEOUL -- With her sight seriously impaired since childhood, Kim Yea-ji has overcome obstacles all her life, becoming a concert pianist, an activist and then a lawmaker. Late into the night of Dec. 3, ...

TOKYO -- In the year since Toshiba went private, the Japanese conglomerate has succeeded at improving profitability across the board, though it still faces the challenge of eliminating the ...