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HANOI (Reuters) - Singapore's unit of the world's largest contract electronics maker and assembler, Foxconn, has been granted a license from Vietnam to invest $246 million in two projects in its north...

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand is carefully managing its relationship with China and must avoid getting pulled from "pillar and post" amid the strategic rivalry between China and t...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Friday that it uncovered new evidence of the indiscriminate use by Ukrainian forces of banned anti-personnel landmines against Russian troops wh...

(Reuters) - Erik Logan, the chief executive of professional surfing's World Surf League, has left the company effective immediately, the WSL said on Thursday, part-way through the sport's 10-stop worl...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Eleven Chinese aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait on Friday morning, an unofficial barrier between the two sides, Taiwan's defence ministry said. A total of 24 Ch...

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's pro-democracy online Citizens' Radio station will cease operations on Friday owing to what its founder described as a "dangerous" political situation a...

By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan would take appropriate steps should the yen weaken excessively, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Friday after the currency plumbed seven-month lows ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) reached a staff-level pact with the IMF on a $3-billion stand-by agreement, the lender said on Thursday, a decision long awaited by the Sout...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Friday the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi will visit Japan during July 4-7 to see the F...

By Anirban Sen and Andres Gonzalez NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity fell 36% year-on-year in the second quarter, but investment bankers and lawyers expressed ...