Malaysian ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak has begun a 12-year prison sentence after losing his final appeal in a graft case linked to the looting of the 1MDB state fund, with the top court unanimously u...

One of the world’s few rare earths processors outside China has bought exploration rights to mine in Greenland, opening an avenue for diversifying supplies of the minerals critical for advanced and gr...

With China’s biggest freshwater lake dried to historic lows by drought, work crews are digging trenches to keep water flowing to irrigate crops...

Asian shares are trading lower, echoing a broad sell-off on Wall Street amid speculation about another interest rate raise from the U.S. Federal Reserve...

A Japanese chemical tanker ship has crashed into a cargo ship off the coast of southwestern Japan...

Global stock markets and Wall Street futures are lower after unexpectedly good U.S. jobs data left room for more interest rate hikes to cool inflation...

Ships are creeping down the middle of the Yangtze after China’s driest summer in six decades left one of the mightiest rivers barely half its normal width...

Asian stock markets are mixed after Wall Street rose as investors analyzed conflicting economic signals ahead of a Federal Reserve conference next week...

The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says her country will never accept South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s “foolish” offer of economic benefits in exchange for denuclearization steps, acc...

Chinese state media say 16 people have died and 18 others remain missing after a flash flood in western China...