TOKYO -- Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that Washington continues to consider the Japan-administered Senkaku Islands as included under their ...

BANGKOK -- Leading Thai electricity company EGCO Group has divested its entire stake in a U.S. power plant, using proceeds from the sale to fund renewable energy projects.

BANGKOK -- Thailand's Criminal Court on Friday cleared former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to visit Malaysia for his first overseas trip since returning home in 2023. Thaksin was given permission ...

TOKYO -- The first meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and U.S. President Donald Trump is being arranged for Feb. 7 in Washington, with the two leaders expected to affirm the ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Overnight stays at accommodation facilities in Japan by Japanese and foreign travelers rose 5.5% in 2024 from the previous year to a record 651.49 million, preliminary government data ...

The road cave-in accident happened on Tuesday at an intersection in Yashio, Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo, creating a ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) -- Fossil fuel-dependent Indonesia plans to build nuclear power plants with the capacity of about 4 gigawatts (GW) in a bid for cleaner energy, an adviser to President Prabowo ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) -- Taiwan's digital ministry said on Friday that government departments should not use Chinese startup DeepSeek's artificial intelligence (AI) service, saying that as the product is ...

Reactions to the Chinese app's sudden global fame have varied among market participants, U.S. officials and tech companies, ...

The weight of Fast Retailing reached 11.4% as of Jan. 31, triggering the cap, starting Apr. 1. In the calculation of the Nikkei 225, the index provider uses the share price and a price-adjustment ...

(Reuters) -- Myanmar's ruling military has extended a state of emergency for another six months, state media reported on Friday, a day ahead of the four-year anniversary of a coup that plunged the ...

For years, Silicon Valley has operated under a single assumption: that artificial intelligence is the domain of the deep-pocketed, requiring billions in computing infrastructure and an iron grip on ...