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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan reported 98 new domestic COVID-19 infections on Friday, as the government raced to contain an outbreak at a Taipei food wholesale market through mass testing and quarantines....

By Yuddy Cahya Budiman JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian doctor Cheras Sjarfi says the small public hospital where she works in south Jakarta was not ready for the influx of COVID-19 patients who arrived...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - Fighting disease, death and disillusionment, members of South Korea's rapidly dwindling sisterhood of surviving "comfort women" say they are facing the twilight of thei...

A look at the day ahead from Dhara Ranasinghe. For former Treasury secretary, Democratic stalwart and Harvard University professor Lawrence Summers, massive U.S. fiscal spending will set off inflation...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) is "working closely" with regulators on a southbound leg of the Bond Connect programme to expand Chinese investors' access to global bond m...

By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's household spending likely slowed in May, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, as a new wave of coronavirus infections and a slow vaccination rollout weigh on...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary plans to impose export restrictions on construction materials from October to help rein in inflation in the sector, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday. Orban said o...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Plans by Big Tech to foray further into India's financial sector pose risks for traditional banks as the tech firms have the potential to become dominant players in financial servic...

By Mei Mei Chu and Chayut Setboonsarng KUALA LUMPUR/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Malaysia's predominant human trafficking crime is forced labour, the U.S State Department said on Friday, after downgrading the ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Data from laboratory studies show Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine works well against the Delta variant that now dominates new infections in South Africa, the head of the ...