BEIJING (Reuters) -- China's home sales rose during the National Day holiday period, after a string of property stimulus ...

TOKYO -- The growth in foreign tourist numbers in Japan has caused a noticeable increase in the consumption of traditional ...

Details of the household survey from which the unemployment rate is derived were equally upbeat, though 121,000 more people ...

ALMATY -- Kazakhs vote on Sunday in a landmark referendum on whether the country should build a new nuclear power plant. But critics say the vote goes beyond the construction of an energy facility: It ...

UJI, Japan -- Nintendo opened the Nintendo Museum on Wednesday in Uji, south of Kyoto, to showcase the unique qualities that define the Japanese video game company.

SEOUL -- A week before her 81st birthday, Choi Soon-hwa is the fresh face of a late-blooming business sector in South Korea - ...

Inside, though, lies India's original speakeasy -- a breed of bars inspired by America's 1920-33 Prohibition era that offer a ...

BEIRUT (AP) -- Israel carried out another series of punishing airstrikes Friday, hitting suburban Beirut and cutting off the main border crossing between Lebanon and Syria for tens of thousands of ...

TOKYO -- Japan's Yaskawa Electric on Friday reported its first year-on-year growth in quarterly orders in nearly two years as ...

TOKYO -- U.S.-based Farallon Capital Management has acquired 6.59% of Japanese elevator maker Fujitec's shares, it was ...

TOKYO -- Japanese companies are pulling away from China, with capital investments by local subsidiaries declining for the ...

Resol Holdings, which is affiliated with top Japanese real estate group Mitsui Fudosan, is spending roughly 6 billion yen ...