Insurance emerges into dynamic asset class ...

TOKYO -- Despite slowing demand, fears are mounting that oil prices will top $100 per barrel as tensions in the Middle East multiply, threatening Asia, home to some of the world's largest net oil ...

Asia is one of the most culturally diverse areas in the world, especially when it comes to the number and variety of scripts in use across the region. It also is home to some of the world's leading ...

Female sexualization and commodification do not occur only in Hollywood; such a culture of objectifying women and girls is ...

PAKSE, Laos -- Chinese businessman Tao Jian spends an entire day navigating muddy roads on the Bolaven Plateau in southern ...

The 2000s were a profoundly challenging and turbulent time for the U.S., marked by a series of unprecedented crises that ...

Economic dynamism, urbanization and financial sophistication drive significant demand ...

CHIBA, Japan -- Who would guess that an unassuming single-story building in a nondescript Tokyo suburb serves as a training ground for ninjas? Yet the dojo in Noda, Chiba prefecture, run by the ...

TOKYO -- Japanese energy company J-Power plans to scale back its U.S. fossil-fuel power generation business by selling as many as nine of 11 stakes in plants it holds, looking to use the funds to ...

Women spend a quarter more of their lives in poor health than men do, much of it during their most productive years. Addressing this women's health gap could add a trillion U.S. dollars annually to ...

(Reuters) -- Thousands of North Korean troops are being prepared to fight on Russia's behalf in Ukraine and some North Korean ...

BANGKOK -- The fall and rise of Thailand's two latest prime ministers can be traced in the share prices of their family ...