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Several concessions had to be made to the opposition before the ruling coalition could garner the support it needed to get its bills passed.

The automaker, which currently ships Lexus models from Japan to China, intends to put the plant into production as early as around 2027.

The move to add more names to Hong Kong's wanted list comes as the city strives to revive its economic growth and international reputation.

The hacker group is believed to have planted a virus on an employee's computer using a fake job recruitment message sent via LinkedIn.

There were 94,259 cases of the flu reported across some 5,000 hospitals and clinics nationwide in the second week of December.

The Southeast Asian city-state doled out 13 cryptocurrency licenses in 2024 to a range of operators, more than double its awards in 2023.

Overall, there were no attempts this year to prevent a peaceful transfer of power, but autocracies grew more repressive.

Matt Gaetz was found to have paid $90,000 to 12 women, a substantial portion of which the panel found was likely for either sexual activity...

The safety debate about flying over the Middle East is playing out in Europe largely because pilots there are protected by unions, unlike ot...

Daiwa is discussing a pay raise of at least 5% for the financial year beginning in April 2025, after hikes of 5%, 4% and 7% in the three yea...

A rate hike by the Bank of Japan would make it more expensive for new companies to finance research and development.

New spending priorities beckon for national budgets already stretched after the pandemic, from tackling climate change to boosting armies to...

Yamato is backing out of an agreement to outsource the delivery of small thin parcels to Japan Post, the latter said in its suit.

Japan's government said there were no cases of disruptive behavior, such as radio jamming, from the acquired sites targeting the areas with...

The medics, who treated the wounded at a field hospital near Damascus after the April 7, 2018, attack, said they were coerced into giving fa...

Glover had slipped outside the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking recently before returning to No. 50 on Monday.

Defenders of Donald Trump's approach say he is merely a forceful advocate of "America First" policies.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later gave a far higher estimate, saying the total killed and wounded in the Kursk region has alread...

A run of five successive test victories in the last five months has catapulted South Africa to first in the WTC standings.

Time out of the game to serve or fight a doping ban means a loss of income for players.

The facilities, which started out mainly as rest places for drivers, have taken on wide-ranging roles, from tourism and agriculture to disas...

The Japanese antitrust watchdog said the U.S. company forced smartphone makers to preinstall its search app on their devices.

The norm in the future may be joint ventures that rely on China's low-margin electric vehicle battery dominance.

Economic activity in China has been relatively weak since the COVID-19 crisis. This was not unexpected, at least not at first.

As usual, our holiday cornucopia overfloweth with litigation.