TOKYO -- As Japan's Muslim population soars on the back of government efforts to bring in more foreign workers, a severe shortage of suitable cemeteries is preventing many from burying their dead in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Harvard University will receive no new federal grants until it meets a series of demands from President Donald Trump's administration, the Education Department announced Monday.

LOS ANGELES -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent outlined the Trump administration's three-pronged economic plan that ...

TOKYO -- Qwen, a family of AI large language models developed by China's Alibaba Cloud, is increasing its presence in Japan as local startups like Abeja use the open-source service to develop their ...

KUALA LUMPUR - When Lena Takahashi, a 40-year-old Japanese interpreter based in Tokyo, first considered sending her daughter Eliza to school abroad, Europe seemed the natural choice. But after ...

TOKYO -- Lawmakers in Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party are fighting a proposal to offer to import more U.S.-grown rice ...

Richard Heydarian is a senior lecturer at the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines and author of "The ...

About 20 heads of state are expected to attend Russia's May 9 Victory Day celebrations commemorating the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, the most since Russia's invasion of ...

WASHINGTON -- In a rare public appearance last Thursday, Charles Koch, the 89-year-old conservative political megadonor criticized the protectionist trade policies of the day, without mentioning the ...

The market cap of AI systems developer Palantir Technologies grew 43% in a month, with Nintendo's market cap increasing 19%. TOKYO -- Investors worldwide are becoming more selective because of U.S.

Since Duterte was arrested in mid-March on charges of murder as a crime against humanity over his crackdown on the country's drug trade, disinformation about the case has spread on social media -- ...

TOKYO -- Aeon, Japan's largest retailer, plans to expand its network of big supermarkets and general merchandise stores in ...