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By Tim Kelly and Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Maki Kaji, a puzzle enthusiast and publisher who was known as the "Godfather of Sudoku" - the number puzzle played daily by millions around the world - h...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Irrational and undesirable online fan behaviour in China interferes with socio-economic and cultural order, and should be addressed and corrected, a commentary in the Communist Pa...

By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices rose on Tuesday, recovering from the previous day's losses, as investors sought bargains and on expectations that major producers will not boost supply so...

By Hideyuki Sano TOKYO (Reuters) - Safe-haven currencies such as the yen held firm against riskier currencies on Tuesday as disappointing economic data from China, the spreading Delta variant of the c...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand reported on Tuesday a daily record of 239 new coronavirus deaths, bringing the country's total number of fatalities to 7,973. The country's coronavirus taskforce also repo...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Tuesday reported 42 new confirmed coronavirus cases in the mainland for Aug. 16, compared with 51 a day earlier, according to the National Health Commission. Of the new in...

By Elizabeth Culliford and Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - The Taliban's rapid takeover of Afghanistan poses a new challenge for big U.S. tech companies on handling content created by a group considered to...

The Tampa Bay Rays agreed to terms on a contract with reliever David Robertson on Monday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed by the Rays for Robertson, who is fresh off competing in the Tokyo Olympi...

(Reuters) - Risk of Bell's Palsy, a type of facial paralysis, is higher after the first dose of Sinovac Biotech Ltd's COVID-19 vaccine CoronaVac, according to a study published in The Lancet Infectiou...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Insurer AIA Group Ltd raised its interim dividend on Tuesday and posted a jump in first-half new business value, as it recovered from pandemic-led business disruptions in most of...