Scientists on Tuesday confirmed that last month was the hottest March on record, extending an extraordinary run of global heat that has renewed calls for an urgent reduction in planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. The European Union's C...

The Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan was sentenced to death on Thursday for her involvement in the country's biggest financial fraud case, state media outlet Thanh Nien . Lan was found guilty of embezzlement, bribery and violating b...

Japanese Prime Minister urged the U.S. Thursday to continue playing a leading role in the world as it faces threats to democracy and the economic order. Kishida told lawmakers at a joint meeting of Congress that the world is at a pivotal mo...

The administration this week sent several signals of a toughening U.S. economic strategy against . On Wednesday, met with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Washington, D.C., to announce bolstered military collaboration between the tw...

Japan's central bank is expected to exit its negative interest rate regime this spring, though sluggish growth will limit its ability to alleviate depreciation pressure on the yen, according to a former Bank of Japan board member. BOJ Gover...

China's lenders cut the country's benchmark five-year loan prime rate for the first time since June, extending Beijing's efforts to revive the country's anemic property market. The Chinese central bank kept its one-year loan prime rate —...

Japan's Nikkei 225 hit a record high Thursday, powered by banking, electronics and consumer stocks as robust earnings and investor-friendly measures fuel a blistering rally in Japanese equities this year. The jumped nearly 2% to hit 39,029,...

Elon Musk's social media platform X said Thursday it will block certain accounts and posts from India in response to executive orders by the government. X said it did not agree with the order but failure to comply would subject the company...

JAKARTA — Indonesia's Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto is set to become the next president in October after voters handed him a strong mandate at . With about 75% of the votes counted, the latest tally from the shows that Prabowo, togeth...

The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party sent a letter on Saturday to SpaceX and CEO demanding that U.S. troops stationed in Taiwan get access to Starshield, a satellite communication network designed specifically for the m...

India is 'easily' the fastest growing economy in the world, IMF executive director Krishnamurthy Subramanian said, as the country's third-quarter GDP growth blew past analysts' estimates. At 8.4%, India's economy expanded at its fastest pac...

BEIJING — China kicks off its annual parliamentary meetings this week, which investors are watching closely for signals on economic stimulus. Beijing has already broken with tradition, with an announcement Monday that Premier Li Qiang wou...

China is set to increase its defense spending by 7.2% to 1.67 trillion yuan in 2024, according to a budget report released by the Ministry of Finance on Tuesday, as part of the country's annual parliamentary meetings in Beijing. This year's...

is offering a discounts across a range of its products in China, including the latest iPhones, its website shows, as it faces rising competition and growing fears of a lack of demand for its flagship smartphone. Between Jan. 18 and Jan. 21,...

South Africa's against Palestinians in Gaza has "global support," the country's Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana told CNBC Monday. A two-day hearing last week at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Netherlands, saw South Afric...