Asia

China's industrial output accelerated and retail sales grew for the first time this year, beating analysts' forecasts. The yuan surged in both offshore and onshore trading. The offshore yuan hit...

LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned online network of professionals, has tied up with Sichuan province's Chengdu Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone, which brands itself as CDHT, to launch "In West". LinkedIn has tailor-made...

The World Health Organization on Monday applauded China's success in combating the COVID-19 pandemic ahead of a national meeting Tuesday morning in Beijing to commend role models in that fight....

Despite continuing run-up in cases, Asia's worst-hit country to relax curbs The ministry said 1,043 deaths were recorded over the latest 24-hour period across the country. Asia's worst-hit country has...

Benchmark index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange, KSE-100, is up nearly six percent from the beginning of August. The market has also enjoyed double-digit returns, rising nearly 50 percent after...

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said at a press conference on Friday that he will step down from his post due to health concerns. Abe said that...

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe checked into a hospital in Tokyo on Monday for what one of his aide's described as a "health checkup" although rumors have been...

RIYADH -- Officials and experts have stressed the deep-rooted China-Saudi Arabia ties at a recent video seminar held by the Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz Public Library. Held to mark the...

NEW DELHI－When India banned TikTok, it closed a window to the wider world for legions of women outside the big cities that provided fun, fame and even fortune. TikTok is...

URUMQI－More than 20 years on, 43-year-old Yusup Keyum can recall the overwhelming smell that emanated from the hole in a frozen puddle in his village. "It reeked of rotten leaves...