HONG KONG -- "At Art Basel Hong Kong, people appreciate beauty," says Sweden-based Finnish artist Juri Markkula, who is preparing to exhibit at ABHK for the seventh time in this year's end of March ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese tech giant Tencent on Friday night launched the official version of its T1 reasoning model, stepping up competition in China's increasingly crowded artificial intelligence ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -- The top diplomats from Japan, China and South Korea met in Tokyo on Saturday as the East Asian neighbors ...

On a clear, sunny day in July, Yuval Zohar boarded a ferry at Kagoshima port, on Japan's southwestern island of Kyushu, and headed to the tiny island of Iojima (not to be confused with Iwo Jima, ...

FUJIYOSHIDA, JAPAN -- The quest to share an iconic image of Japan on social media is driving a tourist boom near Mount Fuji that is spreading far beyond the beaten track.

JAKARTA -- As foreign-owned operators battle to reign supreme in Indonesia's cutthroat online retail market, one of the original local players, Bukalapak, has bowed out, deciding to no longer sell ...

LONDON (Reuters) -- Flights at Britain's Heathrow resumed late on Friday after a fire knocked out its power supply and shut Europe's busiest airport for the day, stranding tens of thousands of ...

TOKYO -- Kao's shareholders rejected proposals submitted by Hong Kong-based activist investor Oasis Management on Friday, though the Japanese consumer goods group faces pressure to accelerate its ...

PELELIU AIRFIELD, Palau -- The muddy gravel airstrip on Palau's Peleliu Island, hacked out of tropical jungle by the Imperial Japanese Navy during wartime, has seen few flights over the past 20 years.

With International Women's Day and World Water Day both observed this month, it is important to question whether the world is doing enough to acknowledge the contribution made by women to water ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Billionaire Elon Musk took his campaign to cut the U.S. federal government into uncharted waters on Friday, holding an unprecedented top-level meeting at the Pentagon and ...

TOKYO -- The European Union's plans to relax sustainability reporting rules will spare many Japanese companies doing business in the bloc from the environmental disclosures.