Rio de Janeiro plays host to a G20 leaders' summit this week, while Southeast Asian defense ministers meet in Laos for talks ...

GWANGJU, South Korea -- South Korea is in the midst of a surge in sports interest, ranging from traditional mainstays like ...

TOKYO -- Japanese convenience store chain FamilyMart has begun selling clothing items from its private brand (PB) Convenience ...

MANILA (Reuters) -- Super typhoon Man-Yi swept across the Philippines' main island of Luzon on Sunday, threatening heavy rain ...

DHAKA (Reuters) -- Bangladesh is battling its worst outbreak of dengue in years, with more than 400 deaths as rising temperatures and a longer monsoon season drive a surge in infections, leaving ...

As Wu Xiuli remembers it, the stream near her village at the foot of the Jiuling Mountains in eastern China used to be so clear you could drink from it. Now, however, whenever it rains, mud from the ...

TOKYO -- A nightly comedy show organized by the Japanese entertainment agency Yoshimoto Kogyo Holdings is quickly becoming a ...

HONG KONG -- Film director Oliver Chan Siu Kuen says she "used to be one of those people who blamed the mothers when their ...

KYIV (Kyodo) -- The foreign ministers of Japan and Ukraine on Saturday agreed to launch a high-level security policy dialogue ...

SINGAPORE -- Singapore's public and private sectors are ramping up efforts to combat deepfakes and other digitally manipulated content, planning ahead for a general election to be held by November ...

TOKYO -- In art and design, "less is more." So said the renowned German-born architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the last ...