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TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike reiterated on Friday that a ban on spectators for the upcoming Olympics would be an option to consider if the coronavirus situation worsened. Returning to...

By Takashi Umekawa TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) on Friday declared a record investment return of 37.8 trillion yen ($338.8 billion) for the year ended March 31, ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's highest court on Friday ordered news portal Malaysiakini to pay 550,000 ringgit ($132,179.76) in damages for in a defamation case filed by a now-defunct Australian ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Mitsubishi Electric Corp's CEO on Friday apologised after the company said it had falsified inspection data, stretching back more than three decades, for air conditioners and brake c...

By Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - A national hero in Japan who drew the Olympic rings with precision in the sky to mark the start of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics said today's heroes are medical workers...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia on Friday said it had received the first payment of 1.8 billion ringgit ($432.38 million) from banking group AMMB Holdings Berhad (AmBank), as part of a settlement de...

MADRID (Reuters) - The number of foreign tourists visiting Spain rose to 1.36 million in May, up from virtually zero who came in May 2020 when the country was under a strict lockdown, the National Sta...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Dutch criticism of Hungary over a new law on LGBT rights reeks of a moral supremacy rooted in a colonial past, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday. EU leaders las...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia reported 32 deaths from the coronavirus on Friday, a record daily increase, as authorities warned of the risk of a new wave of infections driven by the Delta variant. T...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Armenia's opposition alliance, led by former president Robert Kocharyan, has asked the constitutional court to overturn the results of a June 20 election which it lost, the TASS new...