TOKYO -- Elevator maker Fujitec has been targeted for a 400 billion yen ($2.7 billion) buyout by Swedish investment group EQT, sources told Nikkei on Tuesday.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A full-scale retrieval of melted fuel debris at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant is likely to be delayed to fiscal 2037 or later, from the initially planned early 2030s, a ...

BANGKOK/PHNOM PENH -- Thai and Cambodian military commanders met on Tuesday to begin implementing a ceasefire to end a five-day border conflict amid disputed claims that shelling was continuing.

Lai Ching-te was expected to transit through the U.S. in August en route to Paraguay, Guatemala and Belize. But Washington said he could not visit New York on the way, the Financial Times reported, ...

ABC-Mart, which sells mainly footwear, will open an ABC-Mart Grand Stage store with a wide range of apparel in the Bonifacio ...

TOKYO -- Japan is working on a framework to monitor progress on implementing its tariff agreement with the U.S., as the Trump ...

JAKARTA -- Foreign direct investment into Indonesia shrank 6.95% in the second quarter from a year earlier to 202.2 trillion rupiah ($12.3 billion), the investment ministry announced on Tuesday, the ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -- Thirty people were killed in Beijing as of midnight on Monday as rain hit the Chinese capital, the ...

KATHMANDU -- Democracy is under strain in Nepal as a growing number of disillusioned voters call for the restoration of the monarchy.

Trading of the group's shares has been halted since Jan. 29, 2024, after they plunged more than 20% following a Hong Kong court's ruling that the company should enter liquidation. The shares were last ...

TOKYO -- Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC) will establish a $300 million venture capital fund in partnership with a U.S. asset manager to invest in artificial intelligence and fintech startups, the ...

Previous U.S.-China trade talks in Geneva and London in May and June focused on bringing U.S. and Chinese retaliatory tariffs down from triple-digit levels and restoring the flow of rare earth ...