A former Thai prime minister has been ordered to pay about 300-million dollars' damages over a controversial rice subsidy ...

Russia and Ukraine say they have received lists of prisoners of war for a major exchange agreed between the two countries earlier this month.

People in Australia have seen days of record rainfall that has triggered devastating floodwaters. The deluge has killed at least four.

A family firm of US President Donald Trump has started developing a luxury golf resort in Vietnam. Hanoi may be hoping for special treatment from Washington amid the threat of high tariffs from the ...

Taiwan has lifted restrictions on beef imports from Japan by eliminating the 30-month age limit for cattle. Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration announced the revision to import regulations on ...

The United Nations World Food Programme says that bakeries in parts of the Gaza Strip have resumed production, following the delivery of aid into the area for the first time in about two and a half ...

Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has met with relatives of Japanese citizens who were abducted by North Korea. He pledged to make his utmost efforts to resolve the issue as soon as possible while ...

Japan's new agriculture minister Koizumi Shinjiro has pledged to tackle soaring rice prices as he officially takes over from ...

Reuters news agency says one of the images US President Donald Trump showed at the White House as evidence of white persecution in South Africa was actually taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Japan's Princess Aiko, the daughter of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, will visit Laos in November. The trip is expected to be her first official overseas visit.

A record surge in the price of rice drove Japan's consumer inflation higher in April. The country's staple crop nearly doubled in price compared to the same month a year earlier.

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru spoke by phone with US President Donald Trump on Friday. Ishiba expressed his expectations for productive negotiations in the upcoming ministerial-level tariff ...