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By Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) - Former Japanese internal affairs minister Sanae Takaichi is set to announce her bid for ruling party leadership on Wednesday, her office said, which if successfu...

By Joori Roh SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean engineer Shaun has big plans to develop the parcels of land he has snapped up for millions of won (thousands of dollars) in recent years into long-term mone...

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar hovered near a one-week peak on Wednesday against major peers, buoyed by higher Treasury yields and a weaker euro amid caution before a European Central ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's New South Wales state reported on Wednesday 1,480 locally acquired cases of COVID-19, up from 1,220 a day earlier, as first-dose vaccination rates among the state's adul...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator Adlai Stevenson III, the namesake son and great-grandson of famous Illinois Democratic politicians, died at his Chicago home on Monday at age 90, the New Yor...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Indonesian venture capital firm Intudo Ventures said on Wednesday it had closed its third "Indonesia-only" fund at $115 million, amid a tech sector boom for Southeast Asia's larg...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police on Wednesday arrested the vice-chairwoman of a pro-democracy group that organises the annual June 4 rally to commemorate those who died in the bloody 1989 Tianan...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Victoria state reported on Wednesday 221 new locally acquired cases, down from the year's record high of 246 a day earlier, as authorities try to ramp up vaccinations to...

By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's economy grew faster than the initially estimated in the April-June quarter, helped by solid capital expenditure, although a resurgence ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. National Hurricane Center on Tuesday said there was a 50% chance of a cyclone formation over the south-central Gulf of Mexico in the next 48 hours. "A tropical or subtropical depr...