Mr Lee will take office without a usual two-month transition period. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes ...

(Reuters) - Alarm over China's stranglehold on critical minerals grew on Tuesday as global automakers joined their U.S. counterparts to complain that restrictions by China on exports of rare earth ...

Japan is about a week into a new postal program that assigns a digital code to individuals that can stand in for physical addresses. The program is designed to do away with errors in labeling or ...

Japan has introduced new rules restricting how names are spelled and pronounced. The new regulations, announced last week, ...