TOKYO: Japan on Saturday marked one year since former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was gunned down during an election speech by a man angry at his links to the Unification Church.
The death of Japan's longest serving prime minister, which was caught on video, rattled a nation unused to gun...
SHANGHAI: China's securities regulator said on Saturday that it would support mutual fund managers to enable them to lower fund product fees.
In a statement, the China Securities Regulatory Commission said it would optimise the mutual-fund fee scheme and steadily lower the industry's comprehensive fee rates.
The statement came as performance...
BEIJING: U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urged closer communication between China and the United States on Saturday to improve economic decision-making and challenged China to join global initiatives to help poorer nations address climate change.
Despite bilateral tensions, record high U.S.-Chinese trade last year showed there was "ample room" to...
BEIJING: China has announced export restrictions to take effect from Aug. 1 on some gallium and germanium products, metals used in computer chips and other products, citing national security interests.
China produces around 60per cent of the world's germanium, or 180 metric tons in 2022, and over 90per cent of...
BEIJING: China's President Xi Jinping, on an inspection tour of a major industrial province, renewed his call for greater innovation and technological self-reliance, as the United States intensifies curbs on Chinese access to advanced technologies.
China should accelerate the upgrades of key technologies and core products, state-run Xinhua news agency...
MADRID: Chinese airlines have upped the number of weekly flights to Spain by more than five times since the end of China's zero-COVID policy in December, filling most of the gap left by European rivals due to a ban on flying over Russia.
"We've managed to restore 60per cent of...
BEIJING — China will tighten its scrutiny on food from Japan and maintain curbs on some Japanese imports, the government said on Friday (July 7), citing Tokyo's decision to discharge treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima plant into the sea.
The Japanese plan, approved on Tuesday by the UN...
WASHINGTON: The US drug regulator gave full approval to a new Alzheimer's medicine on Thursday (July 6), a move that makes it more widely available to the public through government-run health insurance for the elderly.
Leqembi, developed jointly by Japan's Eisai and Biogen of the United States, was shown in...
TAIPEI: China has launched a misinformation campaign that includes news reports Taiwan's president has an "escape plan" in the event of a Chinese invasion, aiming to sap morale as Beijing presses the island to accept its sovereignty, Taiwan officials said.
Taiwan is on high alert for what it sees as...
SEOUL: South Korea's government said on Friday (July 7) it respected the United Nations nuclear energy watchdog's review of Japan's plan to discharge treated radioactive water from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima plant into the ocean and said it met international standards.
Seoul announced its own assessment after the International Atomic Energy...
