Two U.S. Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed on Saturday in the central Syrian town of Palmyra by an attacker who targeted a convoy of American and Syrian forces before being shot ...

BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar's military government is rushing to take down scam centers near its border with Thailand, boosting ties with neighbors like China while the U.S. starts to take action in the ...

TAICHUNG/TAIPEI -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s landmark decision in the autumn of 2021 to build a chip plant in Kumamoto prefecture on Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu has set ...

TOKYO -- The Bank of Japan on Friday went ahead with the interest rate increase it had been foreshadowing, its first such ...

"From the end of 2026 ... we can produce plasma-derived medicines using Indonesian blood," Ted Roh, president director of ...

TOKYO -- Yields on the benchmark 10-year Japanese government bonds rose above 2%, the highest since August 1999, as the ...

OSAKA -- Despite hiccups this year, Japanese homebuilder Sekisui House remains confident in its target of supplying an annual 20,000 detached homes in the U.S. by the fiscal year ending January 2032, ...

TOKYO -- Japanese companies will explore investments in more than 100 projects in five Central Asian countries as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi hosts a summit with their leaders on Saturday to discuss ...

MELBOURNE -- From December to April 2026, Melbourne is hosting the world's first exhibition of designs, photographs and videos dedicated to the British designer Vivienne Westwood and the Japanese ...

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TOKYO -- A potential massive earthquake hitting Tokyo could kill as many as 18,000 people, lower than a casualty estimate made in 2013 but more than the goal set by the government, the latest report ...