TOKYO -- Global corporate net profits grew 4% on the year in the July-September quarter, buoyed by a robust American economy and particularly strong performance in finance and artificial intelligence.

In a brief message carried by broadcaster YTN, Yoon invoked a provision in South Korea's constitution that empowers the president to declare martial law, and he said the measure was necessary to ...

TOKYO -- Nomura Securities said Tuesday that 10 executives will return part of their compensation after a former employee was ...

TOKYO -- Businesses must be ready to move quickly and flexibly, leaders from French and Japanese companies agreed at the French Japanese Business Summit 2024 held Tuesday in Tokyo. "We are moving from ...

TOKYO -- China is "using increasingly large numbers of satellites to find, fix, track and target U.S. and allied terrestrial capabilities, aircraft carriers" and more, completing a "long-range kill ...

OSAKA -- Activist investor Oasis Management has called on Kobayashi Pharmaceutical to file a lawsuit against seven people, including current and former executives of the Japanese drugmaker, Nikkei has ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -- NATO will step up intelligence sharing and improve the protection of critical infrastructure in the face of "hostile" acts of sabotage against allies by Russia and China, NATO ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -- South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday declared martial law in an unannounced late night address broadcast live on YTN television.

TOKYO -- Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli in Beijing on Tuesday as both countries aimed to strengthen ties through infrastructure projects and cash aid of 300 ...

JAKARTA -- Indonesian Minister of Investment Rosan Roeslani has said tech giant Apple has expressed an intention to invest $1 billion in the country, 10 times the amount it offered last month, in a ...

TAIPEI -- China says it will block exports to the U.S. of critical raw materials including gallium and germanium after Washington ramped up its clampdown on the Chinese chip industry. Beijing's ...