The Financial Times says Chinese President Xi Jinping will send a high-level envoy to Donald Trump's presidential ...

A minister of Syria's interim government has appealed for assistance and investment from the international community, ...

Japanese retail giant Seven & i Holdings says its net profit plunged in the nine months through November of last year. The ...

Japanese retail giant Seven & i Holdings is still mulling a takeover bid by a Canadian convenience store giant. An executive ...

Sources have told NHK that the trial for a man charged with killing a Japanese student last year will open on January 24.

NHK has learned that five Japanese ministries failed to adequately secure some domain names previously used for their websites.

Japan's household spending dipped in November for the fourth month in a row. The monthly figure was down again compared to a year ago as consumers bought fewer big ticket items.

Former US President Jimmy Carter's legacy as a public servant, peacemaker, and humanitarian was celebrated on Thursday at a ...

Authorities in Los Angeles have ordered the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people in the face of ravaging wildfires ...

Wildfires raging near Los Angeles in California have left at least 5 people dead, and more than 1,100 residential and ...

The number of children killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip continues to rise, as negotiations for a ceasefire and ...

Consumer prices in China barely rose in December year-on-year as weak demand continued to fuel deflationary pressure.