BEIJING (Reuters) -- A Beijing court sentenced veteran Chinese state media journalist Dong Yuyu on Friday to seven years in prison for espionage, a family member told Reuters.

HO CHI MINH CITY -- Canada has opened a new export office in Vietnam, at a time when both countries' biggest customer, the U.S., is likely to make global trade chaotic once again.

Lai is due to depart Saturday for a visit to the Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Palau -- the only Pacific countries among ...

Her triumph marks a historic moment. For the first time in decades, all three members of the Nehru-Gandhi family -- including ...

TOKYO/HONG KONG -- Non-bank lenders called private debt funds are flocking to Japan, looking for new investors as well as opportunities to finance a growing number of private equity deals in the ...

BANGKOK -- Chinese carmakers unveiled new hybrid models at the biannual Bangkok motor show on Thursday, eschewing the electric vehicles that have made them household names in Thailand to attract ...

BANGKOK -- Britain's parliament has joined a growing number of countries in explicitly backing Taiwan's right to take part in ...

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka -- There was a sense of the new in Sri Lanka's parliament on Nov. 21 that went far beyond it being the day of the inaugural sitting after a general election the previous week. Of the ...

Don McLain Gill is a Philippines-based geopolitical analyst, author and lecturer at the Department of International Studies, De La Salle University.

SEOUL -- Korean Air Lines, South Korea's top carrier, said Thursday that it would merge with No. 2 player Asiana Airlines by the end of the year, following years of negotiations with regulators. The ...

TSUKUBA, Japan -- Japanese researchers have succeeded in growing black truffles continuously at a site in Gifu prefecture, it ...

TOKYO -- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) plans to launch a takeover bid for WealthNavi, Japan's largest robo-adviser platform, Nikkei has learned. The megabank, which in February took a stake of ...