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...

Former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday that the U.S. and other powerful nations must "persuade countries, not dictate to them" in an increasingly multipolar world. Much of the conversation at this week's World Economic Forum...

SINGAPORE — Singapore's transport minister S Iswaran has resigned after he was formally informed of charges, including that of corruption, by the country's anti-graft agency after months of investigations. On Thursday, Iswaran appeared in...

Davos, SWITZERLAND — China returned to Davos in full force this week as it attempts to thaw relations with the international community and court investment following years of Covid-19 lockdowns and rising geopolitical tensions. A delegati...

Moody's Investors Service has a negative outlook for sovereign creditworthiness in Asia-Pacific this year, due to China's slower economic growth as well as tight funding and geopolitical risks. China's rebound from the Covid-19 pandemic was...

Saudi Arabia will hold its first major invitational snooker event in March as the kingdom continues to make sizable investments into a growing number of sports. The "Riyadh Season World Masters of Snooker" will take place between March 4 to...

The leader of the Philippines has landed himself in trouble after using a presidential helicopter to bypass heavy traffic and make it to a Coldplay concert. and his wife were seen riding a chopper last Friday to the Philippine Arena— the...