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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The Chinese government has taken stakes in Chinese entities owned by tech companies ByteDance and Sina Weibo, corporate records showed, amid a widening regulatory crackdown on the...

By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's central bank would be prepared to take policy action should coronavirus lockdowns across the country threaten a deeper economic setback, minutes from its A...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's King Al-Sultan Abdullah will meet with leaders of the country's political parties on Tuesday, media reported, amid a search for a new prime minister following the r...

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - Real estate heir Robert Durst testified to chopping up the body of a Texas neighbor he killed in self-defense and to abandoning the body of his best friend after discoveri...

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...