SHANGHAI -- Investors are ramping up bets on Chinese makers of precision parts, optical transceivers and circuit boards for American companies as a trade truce with the U.S. has stimulated locals' ...

TOKYO -- The collectibles market in Japan is booming for Labubu plush dolls from Chinese company Pop Mart International Group, fueling the proliferation of counterfeit products here -- and efforts to ...

KOSTIANTYNIVKA, Ukraine -- Russian forces are stepping up an offensive to take full control of Ukraine's eastern region of ...

TOKYO -- At Night Market, a Southeast Asian restaurant that opened last month in a quiet alley a 10-minute walk from Tokyo's Shibuya Station, chef and owner Chihiro Naito's skill at pleasing customer ...

TOKYO -- The Financial Services Agency will approve the issuance of Japan's first yen-denominated stablecoin as early as autumn, with the aim of using it for international remittances and more, Nikkei ...

HAMBURG, Germany -- Temu has signed a deal with Austrian Post for seamless delivery of its products and to offer what it calls a "local-to-local" customer experience, a move experts say is partly ...

SAPPORO, Japan -- Niseko on Japan's northern main island of Hokkaido is renowned as a destination for winter sports. But moves are underway to make the area an all-year attraction as resorts expand ...

TURIN, Italy -- In the heart of Turin, in Italy's Piedmont region, global gourmands gathered last month for the 23rd edition of the World's 50 Best Restaurants ranking. And while Europe was the center ...

TOKYO -- Talk of raising Japan's corporate tax is coming from both the ruling and opposition parties as one of the few funding sources they can agree on.

DANANG, Vietnam -- Vo Ba Thong, 15, lost his father to COVID-19. His mother was also infected with the virus. She survived but lost her job. With debt piling up and a younger sibling now under the ...

MAE AI, Thailand/CHIANG RAI, Thailand -- Chinese rare-earth mining in Myanmar may be sending toxic substances into waterways flowing through Thailand into the Mekong River, local people and experts ...

After the two leaders met in Alaska on Friday, Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Putin had offered to freeze most front lines if Kyiv ceded all of Donetsk, the industrial region ...