NINGBO, China — China's top leaders will gather from July 15 to 18 for a highly anticipated meeting known as the Third Plenum, state media said Thursday. "The execution of pledged policies, rather than mapping out a laundry list of policy...

China has stepped up its aggression against the Philippines in the contested waters of the South China Sea, calling into question the strength of American deterrence, according to policy analysts. Last week, the Chinese coast guard seized t...

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan laid out grim visions of U.S. democracy in their joint written dissents to the court's Monday on former President 's claim of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution. "...

China's population is shrinking, and the demographic shift will ultimately hurt its economy, shrink the labor force and put pressure on fiscal policy. "The working age population [in China] will fall so rapidly over the next decade, that th...

A fresh market projection by the Bank of Japan on Friday hints at a possible intervention of around $22 billion into the currency markets as the country tries to prop up the ailing . The Japanese currency popped 3% against the dollar late T...

World leaders have joined together to condemn the assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump over the weekend. Trump was hit in the ear at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. The suspected shooter, identi...

Former U.S. President , who is vying for another White House mandate, said he thinks that Taiwan should pay the U.S. for defense, claiming that the country "doesn't give us anything." His comment was in response to a question on whether he...

Health authorities in the southern Indian state of Kerala are on high alert following the latest flare-up of the deadly Nipah virus. It comes after a from an infection over the weekend and as authorities race to track those who came into...

There is an "internal battle" happening within India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party over inviting Chinese investments, as the country strives to become Asia's manufacturing powerhouse, Alicia Garcia-Herrero, chief Asia Pacific economist at...

BEIJING — China is not planning additional stimulus for the second half of the year, according to officials from the economic planning agency and finance ministry. The world's second-largest economy grew by exactly 5% in the first half of...

Two executives at Smartmatic, a voting machine company, were indicted in Florida on Thursday for allegedly bribing officials in the Philippines to secure contracts ahead of the 2016 election there, . Smartmatic President Roger Piñate and a...

In the 1980s, Japan was the dominant player in the semiconductor market. But huge shifts in the way the chip supply chain operated eroded that leading-edge. Countries like Taiwan with , the world's largest and most advanced semiconductor ma...

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced Wednesday he will not be running in the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election due next month. Kishida said in a press conference that it is important for the LDP to have a new face in...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is , a move that sparked a broad range of reactions from government officials and analysts. By choosing to not run for reelection as leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Kishida has effect...

The Indian Medical Association, the largest association of modern medicine doctors in India, has called for the for 24 hours across the country after a female trainee doctor was raped and murdered last week at a hospital. The association, ,...