The purchasing managers index (PMI) for manufacturers in Asia's fourth-largest economy, compiled by S&P Global, rose to 50.3 ...

A particular metric that often, if not always comes up in the Bank of Korea’s monetary policy decision is a consideration of ...

South Korea's retail sales declined in December, reflecting weak consumer spending and the fallout of impeached President ...

North Korea has lashed out at US secretary of state Marco Rubio for calling it a “rogue” state and warned Monday that such ...

Hong Kong - Factories across Asia expanded at a lacklustre pace in January as demand cooled, ahead of a trade war that US ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Asia's factory activity weakened in January as soft Chinese demand and threats of higher tariffs by U.S.

Around 4,000 of the 11,000-men contingent North Korea sent to Russia last year are thought to have died already, with more ...

Samsung Electronics Chair Jay Y. Lee faces a ruling by a Seoul appeals court on Monday over a 2015 merger that prosecutors ...

Lee had been battling stomach cancer since being diagnosed with the condition in November 2024. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

Asia shares mostly fell in Monday trading as worries grow about President Donald Trump imposing tariffs on key U.S. trading ...

Asian markets got an unpleasant return from the holidays as investors digested a week's worth of bad news. Several Asian exchanges were closed for some, if not all, of the past week due to the Lunar ...