KYOTO (Kyodo) -- The city government of Kyoto said Tuesday it will raise its lodging tax for people staying at hotels and other accommodations from March 2026, setting the maximum rate at a sharply ...

WASHINGTON -- For the second straight day, the Biden administration has taken action on artificial intelligence, this time opening up federal land for construction of large-scale data centers and ...

HONG KONG -- Pakistan is eager to tap the yuan bond market and will encourage corporate stock listings in Hong Kong, its ...

TOKYO -- U.S. investment fund Bain Capital will acquire Japanese aircraft interior maker Jamco for a total of around 100 ...

Don McLain Gill is a Philippines-based geopolitical analyst, author and lecturer at the department of international studies, ...

SEOUL -- Several public opinion polls in South Korea show support for the ruling party is recovering, with the swing coming as a second attempt to arrest President Yoon Suk Yeol is imminent -- ...

Dented by mounting complaints about the quality of its products and after-sales service, and a string of top-level exits, SoftBank-backed Ola Electric saw its market share slump to 19% in December, ...

TAIPEI -- China is increasing its scrutiny of exports by Apple and other American tech companies, hampering their efforts to ...

NEW YORK -- Lourenco Concalves, CEO of Cleveland-Cliffs, said that the American steelmaker is willing to acquire U.S. Steel that has agreed to be purchased by Nippon Steel, stressing that Japan is ...

TAIPEI -- Apple is in the final stage of verifying its first "made in America" cutting-edge processor chips from Taiwan ...

NEW YORK -- As Tiktok faces a sell-or-ban deadline from the U.S. government, users in America are flocking to another Chinese ...

HO CHI MINH CITY -- Vietnam has sentenced a high-profile attorney to three years in prison over Facebook posts that ...