HONG KONG -- Global investors have been rushing into Asian bonds in recent weeks, reckoning that the first U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate cut in four years would allow regional central banks to ...

Iran's second missile strike on Israel on Oct. 1 has dramatically heightened tensions in the Middle East, increasing the risk of an escalating cycle of retaliatory violence that could lead to a ...

Japan's hair care market has seen products priced at 1,400 yen or more -- what Kao calls "high premium" -- increase in sales. Last year, this segment accounted for 41% of the market for hair care ...

SEOUL -- South Korea's pension system is facing an existential threat as its baby boomers head into retirement and the birth rate plumbs new lows, putting the national fund on track to run out within ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -- India's ruling party is projected to have lost two key provincial elections to the main opposition Congress party and its allies, exit polls showed, suggesting another setback ...

The three of us -- Jerry Kohlberg, George Roberts and I -- left Bear Stearns without a job or a business, but we had what we believed to be a good idea. George and I each scraped together $10,000, and ...

TOKYO -- JERA, Japan's biggest producer of fossil fuel power, plans to extract valuable metals from old electric-vehicle batteries, aiming for a roughly 90% recovery rate, Nikkei has learned. With 80% ...

TOKYO -- Mizuho Financial Group has invested in U.S.-based Zap Energy, becoming the first Japanese bank to take a stake in an overseas company pursuing a commercial breakthrough in nuclear fusion.

TOKYO -- Local governments in Japan are urging caution and calling for early testing due to a rapid rise in syphilis, with new infections on pace with last year's record number of cases. As of ...

HONG KONG -- In the four years since they began operating, Hong Kong's eight virtual banks have yet to become consistently ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) -- A Royal New Zealand Navy vessel ran aground and sank off Samoa but all 75 crew and passengers on board were safe, the New Zealand Defence Force said in a statement on Sunday.