SEOUL -- The Democratic Party's Lee Jae-myung, South Korea's leading presidential candidate, called for economic pragmatism after winning the opposition party's primary with almost 90% of the vote on ...

A joint statement by the finance ministries of Saudi and Qatar said the decision to pay Syria's nearly $15 million debt to the World Bank was made during this month's meetings in Washington by the ...

(Reuters) -- India signed a deal with France on Monday to buy 26 Rafale fighter aircraft worth 630 billion rupees ($7.41 billion) for its navy, an official from the Indian defence ministry told ...

TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba met his Vietnamese counterpart, Pham Minh Chinh, on Monday in Hanoi, looking ...

Shortly after Prabowo Subianto was inaugurated as Indonesia's president in October, the former special forces general put ...

MANILA -- Manila on Monday rejected Beijing's claim that it had seized control of Sandy Cay, a sandbar in the Philippines' territorial waters as "lies and misinformation", in what threatens to become ...

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) -- India said on Monday it had responded to "unprovoked" firing from Pakistan along the de facto ...

TOKYO -- China has stopped importing liquefied natural gas from the U.S., shipping data shows, as the trade war between Beijing and Washington drives up the price of bringing such cargoes into the ...

KUALA LUMPUR -- A European bloc comprising Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland is doubling down on Malaysia and ...

SINGAPORE -- Singapore is in the midst of an election campaign, with political parties holding rallies to appeal to voters ...

Politicians running in elections across Asia, including Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, left, and Lee Jae-myung, ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -- North Korea confirmed for the first time on Monday that it has sent troops to fight for Russia in the war with Ukraine under the order of leader Kim Jong Un and made an important ...