In a major shift, Trump also said he had agreed with Putin that the best way to end the war was to go straight to a peace settlement -- not via a ceasefire, as Ukraine and its European allies, until ...

KYIV (Reuters) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would travel to Washington on Monday for talks with Donald Trump, after the U.S. president's summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese Foreign Ministry said Saturday it has lodged a "strong protest" with South Korea over suspected maritime research near islets in the Sea of Japan that are controlled by ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit India from Monday to Wednesday, China's Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday, for talks about a disputed border in the ...

BANGKOK/YANGON -- A new QR code standard backed by Myanmar's central bank is seeing widespread adoption in the Southeast Asian country, unifying codes from nearly a dozen mobile payment apps for ...

SYDNEY -- Australia is debating a ban on credit and debit card transaction fees, which cost the country's consumers 1.2 billion Australian dollars ($781 million) annually.

BANGKOK/SHANGHAI -- Chinese streaming services are catching American rivals in the Southeast Asian market, with giants iQiyi and Tencent planning to roll out original productions in Thailand and ...

Trump has threatened sanctions on Moscow and secondary sanctions on countries that buy its oil if no moves are made to end the war in Ukraine. China and India are the top two buyers of Russian oil.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) -- A highly anticipated summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday yielded no agreement to resolve or pause Moscow's war in ...

TOKYO -- Japan's immigration authority is intensifying efforts to crack down on suspected abuse of the business manager visa program, which is intended to help foreign entrepreneurs start businesses ...

NAGOYA, Japan -- When family members of the late American academic Ezra Vogel recently gathered in Nagoya, in central Japan, to commemorate the opening of a university library in his name, they ...

TOKYO -- Japanese restaurant operator The Monogatari Corp. will debut its first all-you-can-eat grilled meat franchise Yakiniku King in the Philippines this month, part of a push to open 10 locations ...