TOKYO -- Japan's 7-Eleven convenience store chain owner Seven & i Holdings is considering plans to go private by means of a management buyout, Nikkei learned on Wednesday.

HONG KONG/WASHINGTON -- China has vowed to strengthen security after a hit-and-run attack in the southern city of Zhuhai ...

The country's biggest conglomerate said it would lend up to $1.4 billion to VinFast and that founder Pham Nhat Vuong pledged another $2.1 billion for the EV producer into which he already poured ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba received a medical checkup on Wednesday for the second time in five days, amid concerns after he appeared to fall asleep during a parliamentary ...

Vietnam is mulling data consent and foreign transfer rules for the technology sector that critics say threaten to stifle ...

SYDNEY -- Australia's Mineral Resources will mothball one of its lithium mines, the latest cutback in the beleaguered battery ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's nuclear watchdog formally decided Wednesday that a reactor in central Japan has failed to pass a ...

JAKARTA -- Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto met his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, on Tuesday evening in Washington, discussing issues ranging from the Indo-Pacific to the war in Gaza. Prabowo also ...

MUMBAI -- Shares of SoftBank-backed Indian startup Swiggy rose 7.69% on their Wednesday debut, after the company raised $1.35 billion in the nation's second-largest initial public offering this year.

SEOUL (Reuters) -- South Korea's military said it will hold a three-day joint exercise with the United States and Japan starting on Wednesday, featuring fighter jets and marine patrol aircraft as well ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he has picked as his secretary of defense Pete Hegseth, a Fox News commentator and veteran who has expressed disdain for the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the newly created Department of Government ...