When Chinese nickel producer Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt launched a new project in Indonesia, the shortage of truck drivers proved so acute it had to set up its own driving school.

SINGAPORE -- In a major step toward streamlining corporate sustainability reporting, Singapore is developing a nationwide digital platform that allows businesses to automatically generate key ...

BANGKOK/PHNOM PENH (Reuters) -- Cambodia's Defense Ministry confirmed on Sunday that Thailand and Cambodia had agreed to ...

The benchmark KOSPI climbed 2% to 2,867.27 at one point, with SK Hynix up 3.8% and Samsung Electronics up 2.2%. The index has jumped nearly 7% since the presidential election held on Tuesday and is in ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) -- Thailand and Cambodian forces will return to their previously agreed positions, Thai Defence Minister ...

An explosion occurred at an ammunition storage area inside the U.S. military's Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, southern Japan, on Monday and there has been a report of an unknown number of injuries, a ...

TOKYO -- This June marks the tenth anniversary of Japan's adoption of the Corporate Governance Code, which set rules for shareholder rights, disclosures and more. The code was nonbinding but took ...

TOKYO -- Japan is considering increasing the tax burden on foreign visitors, such as by doing away with duty-free shopping and raising departure levies, as lawmakers scramble for ways to replenish ...

PARIS (Reuters) -- France's defense ministry has approached Renault with a view to helping manufacture drones, the automaker said on Sunday, after the ministry last week floated the idea French ...

TOKYO/SHANGHAI -- China's exports grew at a slower pace in May while consumer prices fell for a fourth straight month, official data showed on Monday, hours before U.S and Chinese trade negotiators ...

Gross domestic product shrank an annualized 0.2% in the three months through March 31, showed revised data from the Cabinet Office, rather than 0.7% announced on May 16 which matched economists' ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan's economy contracted an annualized 0.2% in the January-March period from the previous quarter, a slower pace than the preliminary reading, government data showed on Monday.