MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Russia's President Vladimir Putin hailed expanding ties with ally Myanmar at talks with its military junta chief on Tuesday and thanked him for gifting Moscow six elephants.

(AP) -- The annual Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Liu Jiakun of China, who earned the field's highest honor for "affirming architecture that celebrates the lives of ordinary citizens, ...

TOKYO -- Japanese farm equipment maker Kubota plans to strengthen its production in India, with the aim of expanding exports ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. President Donald Trump's new 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada took effect on Tuesday, along with a doubling of duties on Chinese goods to 20%, sparking trade ...

BEIJING -- CK Hutchison, the Hong Kong-based conglomerate owned by tycoon Li Ka-shing's family, has agreed to sell port ...

China is expected to set its 2025 gross domestic product growth target at "around 5%," according to documents seen by Nikkei ...

JAKARTA -- Yustinus Mario Tenggara is upbeat about his family's pearl farming and trading business in eastern Indonesia. Exports have been robust in the past few years as demand rises -- mainly from ...

On a brilliant, sunny day, I float through a beautiful Japanese garden, a bright vermillion torii gate to my left and workers ...

(Reuters) -- An investor group backed by BlackRock agreed to buy a majority stake in the Hong Kong subsidiary that runs ports ...

SEOUL -- South Korean conglomerate Lotte Group is selling off parts of its struggling chemical and retail businesses in a ...

During Trump's first term, the U.S. withdrew from UNESCO and the Paris Agreement, though the moves were reversed under former President Joe Biden. Trump is once again signaling a shift away from ...

HONG KONG/PALO ALTO, California -- Since startup DeepSeek became the pride of China by singlehandedly crashing Nvidia's stock price with its low-cost approach to artificial intelligence, local ...