PARIS -- Beijing has agreed it will not impose tit-for-tat tariffs on French brandy, despite numerous probes by the European ...

Donald Low is a senior lecturer and professor of practice in public policy at the Hong Kong University of Science and ...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- After Hamas on Monday announced its acceptance of an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal, Israel said its leaders approved a military operation in the southern Gaza town of Rafah and ...

They came looking for answers from a U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) delegation to an existential problem for the country's farmers: After decades of poor irrigation in an arid land, ...

Laos' public debt surpassed 120% of GDP in 2023. Half of the external debt is owed to China, according to the World Bank. Some observers say the actual figure is far higher when hidden public debt is ...

TOKYO -- A Tokyo-based startup and a group of public and private investors aim to publish 50,000 new English-language titles of Japanese manga in five years -- over three times the current available ...

New Zealand is also in talks for a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council, a regional body of six whose members include the UAE, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. McClay said he discussed the ...

BEIJING -- China wants to promote awareness of national defense in children as young as elementary school under proposed ...

TOKYO -- Intel will partner with 14 Japanese companies to develop technology to automate "back-end" chipmaking processes like packaging, Nikkei learned Monday, as the U.S. and Japan look to cut ...

PARIS (Reuters) -- French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen urged China to ensure ...

TOKYO -- Casio Computer is ramping up its efforts to promote its scientific calculators abroad, pitching their value in ...

Domestic travellers spent 166.9 billion yuan ($23.13 billion) during one of China's longest breaks, the May Day holiday, a rise of 13.5% from pre-pandemic levels, government data showed on Monday, but ...