A court in Malaysia has denied the bid by former Prime Minister Najib Razak to suspend a 15-year jail term linked to the 1MDB ...

A panel set up by Japan's National Police Agency will start discussions next week about a new system that requires known ...

The German government has decided to ban, in principle, the use of social media by children under the age of 13.

Tokyo's benchmark stock index tumbled on Thursday, posting its third-largest point decline on record at the close.

A Bank of Japan board member says the BOJ should not be overly cautious about hiking the policy interest rate given the risk ...

North Korea's state-run media reported that the country's Missile Administration test-fired two types of submarine-launched ...

The latest figures from the US show inflation rising faster than expected in September, contributing to speculation that the ...

Takebe Arata has been tapped to be Japan's next agriculture minister. He says Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae told him that he ...

The Japanese government has asked Russian authorities to swiftly provide information following the announcement that they ...

Finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of 20 major economies have met for talks in Bangkok.

US contract chipmaker GlobalFoundries says it will work with two Japanese firms to expand production in America.

Protests calling for better education conditions are spreading from France to other parts of Europe. High school students ...