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, ...

The regulator is looking into whether roughly a dozen groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among ...

Through MC Global Innovation, Mitsubishi Corporation will consolidate startup investments from its eight business groups.

Japan’s sidewalk restaurants, known as “yatai,” have almost entirely disappeared—except in Fukuoka, where they’ve undergone a ...

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Brendan Greeley’s piece on Federal Reserve profits (“Fed losses matter more in these unusual times”, On Wall Street, May 24) misapplies commercial banking logic to a sovereign monetary authority. The ...

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was little changed, inching down less than 0.1% to 8,404.50. South Korea's Kospi declined 0.6% to ...

As the New York Post previously reported, New Zealand also has a list of forbidden names — and it’s royally strict. King ...

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