A former Thai prime minister has been ordered to pay about 300-million dollars' damages over a controversial rice subsidy ...

A major shareholder of Japan's Fuji Media Holdings says it will launch a proxy fight so that its candidates for the firm's board will gain approval at the upcoming general shareholders' meeting.

US President Donald Trump says he is recommending a 50 percent tariff on the European Union starting on June 1.

Japan's tariff negotiator is expected to propose greater investment by Japanese companies in the United States in the upcoming ministerial-level tariff talks in Washington.

Japan's new agriculture minister Koizumi Shinjiro has pledged to tackle soaring rice prices as he officially takes over from ...

A fossil of a butterfly now believed extinct that was discovered in western Japan 37 years ago has been identified as that of a new species of the insect.

Taiwan has lifted restrictions on beef imports from Japan by eliminating the 30-month age limit for cattle. Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration announced the revision to import regulations on ...

People in Australia have seen days of record rainfall that has triggered devastating floodwaters. The deluge has killed at least four.

Russia and Ukraine say they have received lists of prisoners of war for a major exchange agreed between the two countries earlier this month.

A family firm of US President Donald Trump has started developing a luxury golf resort in Vietnam. Hanoi may be hoping for special treatment from Washington amid the threat of high tariffs from the ...

The United Nations World Food Programme says that bakeries in parts of the Gaza Strip have resumed production, following the delivery of aid into the area for the first time in about two and a half ...

Reuters news agency says one of the images US President Donald Trump showed at the White House as evidence of white persecution in South Africa was actually taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo.