An expat in Myanmar was shocked when he entered a plane ticket from Yangon to Mandalay into expense management software and saw the converted price: more than $300 for a one-hour, one-way flight.

HANOI -- A usually little-noticed appointment to a local Communist Party committee in Vietnam heralds a return to prominence for politicians from the country's south, and has sparked a buzz among ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, on an unannounced visit to Moscow, secured the release on Tuesday of Marc Fogel, an American schoolteacher detained in Russia since August ...

Henny Sender is the founder and managing partner of Apsara Advisory, a strategic consultancy for financial services companies. She was previously a managing director at investment company BlackRock.

TOKYO -- Japanese companies are seeking out foreign students not just to alleviate labor shortages but to facilitate ventures abroad, spurring businesses and local governments to provide services ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Donald Trump on Tuesday restated his plan for the U.S. to take over Gaza and permanently resettle its ...

SHANGHAI -- BYD led China's passenger vehicle market in sales for the first time in 2024, highlighting the rise of privately ...

PALO ALTO, U.S. -- Chinese AI startup DeepSeek sent shockwaves through the tech and investing worlds when it unveiled its ultra-cheap answer to ChatGPT. But scrutiny from Silicon Valley and Wall ...

BEIJING -- China has removed a buoy it placed near the Japan-administered Senkaku Islands in July 2023, the two governments ...

"We are at the dawn of the AI age that will change the course of humanity," said Modi in a closing speech of the two-day Artificial Intelligence Action Summit that was attended by world leaders and ...

TOKYO -- Japan's Unicharm will launch its third factory in India to boost production capacity for disposable diapers by 30% there, positioning the market as a steppingstone for catching up to global ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -- Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., China's largest contract chipmaker, reported a 38.4% year-on-year fall in fourth-quarter profit. Profit attributable to owners of ...