Staff at Samsung Electronics, one of the world’s largest smartphone manufacturers and also one of the only companies producing high-end semiconductors, have taken industrial action…
Four universities in Taiwan will be closing in July following a dip in enrollment due to the island’s plunging birth rate, reported Taiwanese news outlets.…
The US flew a B-1B bomber over the Korean Peninsula on June 5 in the first live munitions drop over South Korea in seven years…
China’s navy and air force have been “aggressively recruiting Western military talent” to train their aviators in complex aerial maneuvers taught by US armed forces,…
Taiwan thanked the US on June 6 for approving the sale of equipment and parts for F-16 fighter jets, saying it would help the island…
Japan's fertility rate reached a record low of 1.20 in 2023, the lowest since record-keeping began in 1947, government data showed on June 5. The…
South Korea will restore all border military activities for the first time in more than five years, after it suspended a 2018 inter-Korean military pact,…
Beijing’s Tiananmen Square had checkpoints and police vehicles on June 4 as China tried to silence the 35th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy…
Japanese transport ministry officials launched an on-site investigation at Toyota Motor's (7203.T) headquarters on June 4 after irregularities were found in its applications to certify…
Japan aims to expand the overseas market size of anime, games and other creative industries to 20 trillion yen (129 billion US dollars) by 2033,…
South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol fully suspended on June 4 a 2018 tension-reducing military deal with the North in response to a bombardment of…
President Yoon Suk Yeol on June 4 announced billions of dollars in new aid and investment support for Africa, as South Korea looks to boost…
Taiwan's new President Lai Ching-te said on June 4 that the memory of Beijing's deadly crackdown at Tiananmen Square "will not disappear in the torrent…
Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit Britain at the end of June, spending three days as guests of King Charles III, Buckingham Palace…
Seoul will fully suspend a 2018 tension-reducing military deal with nuclear-armed North Korea, the South's National Security Council said on June 3, after Pyongyang sent…
Hong Kong police arrested an eighth person over social media posts about commemorating Beijing's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on June 3, the eve of the…
China on June 3 accused Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) of recruiting a couple who worked for the central government to spy for the UK,…
The US, Japan and South Korea agreed to hold new trilateral joint exercises this summer, a joint statement issued by the US Department of Defense…
Asian factory activity expanded in May as manufacturers benefited from broadening global demand, private surveys showed on June 3, adding to hopes for sustained economic…
The US and China have significantly increased the volume of military exercises across Asia amid roiling regional tensions in recent years, though Beijing's drills still…
South Korea will aim to secure critical mineral imports and boost trade ties with Africa as President Yoon Suk Yeol hosts dozens of heads of…
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told a gathering of top security officials on June 1 that war with China was neither imminent nor unavoidable,…
The US is unlikely to help South Korea build nuclear-powered submarines at the moment, as it is stretched by AUKUS commitments to Australia, US Defense…
