Apple on Wednesday said it has opened iPhones and other devices to alternative app stores in Japan to comply with new laws ...

A Finnish beauty queen was stripped of her crown for a gesture mocking Asians. After Finnish lawmakers have copied her, ...

Japan must pursue proactive spending, rather than excessive fiscal tightening, that will boost growth and tax revenues, Prime ...

Any move by China to leave Japan without pandas would extend and deepen a diplomatic row that erupted in November when ...

Japan has reported its exports climbed 6% in November from a year earlier as shipments to the United States rose for the ...

Diageo has agreed to sell its stake in its Kenyan business to Japan’s Asahi in a deal worth $2.3bn, as the struggling drinks ...

In recent years, a major ocean current changed its path in two crucial ways. Now parts of the sea are rising, other parts are ...

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The deal gives East African Breweries an enterprise value of $4.8 billion, according to Diageo.

Japan is lifting a megaquake advisory for the country’s northeastern coast, a week after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck ...

Twin pandas at a Tokyo zoo are set to return to China in late January, leaving Japan without a panda for the first time in ...

Thousands of people flocked to Tokyo’s Ueno zoo to have a last glimpse of the popular twin pandas that are set to return to ...