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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's regulatory crackdown is being waged to build a prosperous market economy and criticism from the United States and the West that it is taking "a backward step" are smears, ...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean frontline health workers on Thursday dropped plans to strike after they reached an agreement with the government on their demand for increased staffing and...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan must compile an economic stimulus package worth "tens of trillions of yen" to combat the coronavirus pandemic, former foreign minister Fumio Kishida, who is challenging Prime M...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand reported a drop in new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, which authorities said was a sign that the lockdown enforced nationwide was working in limiting the spread of t...

By Joori Roh SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's August consumer inflation stayed at a nine-year peak fuelled by a continued spike in prices of fresh food due to a heat wave and the rising cost of oil pro...

By Panu Wongcha-um and Juarawee Kittisilpa BANGKOK (Reuters) - Often seen at the wheel of one of his supercars, Thai ultra-royalist Tanat "Nat" Thanakitamnuay became a well-known face at demonstration...

By Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's minister for digital transformation is the first serving cabinet member to openly back the rival of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in the race for ruling ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Experience trumped youth as former champion Sloane Stephens' deadly forehand sealed fellow American Coco Gauff's fate 6-4 6-2 in the second round of the U.S. Open on Wednesday. Th...

PARIS (Reuters) - French media and publishing firm Lagardere said on Wednesday that Financire Agache, a holding company owned by French luxury goods billionaire Bernard Arnault, had exercised its opti...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry held a virtual meeting with the U.S. climate envoy on Wednesday, describing the two countries' collaboration on environmental policy an "oasis" amid a des...