Private equity firms including KKR and Bain Capital offered from around 750 billion yen ($4.8 billion) to around 1.2 trillion ...

TOKYO: Private equity firms KKR and Bain Capital each offered more than US$5 billion in first-round bids for the non-core ...

BEIJING: China approved a value-added tax law on Wednesday (Dec 25) to take effect on Jan 1, 2026, the official Xinhua said, ...

JERUSALEM: The Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel traded blame on Wednesday (Dec 25) over failure to conclude a ...

Singapore's Civil Defence Force was among the first to respond to the deadly 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The two-week ...

BEIJING: Japanese foreign minister Takeshi Iwaya raised "serious concerns" on Wednesday (Dec 25) over China's military ...

Indian Ocean tsunami was one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history. More than 220,000 people across a dozen ...

Rising sea levels could significantly increase tsunami risks, potentially hitting up to 15 ports at once. That's the chilling ...

The plane's course on Flight Radar showed it crossing the Caspian Sea away from its normal route and then circling over the ...

BEIJING: China's box office revenues for Christmas Eve plummeted to the lowest in at least 13 years, data from ticket booking ...

Richard Perry, a hitmaking record producer with a flair for both standards and contemporary sounds whose many successes ...

Pope Francis made wrapped a historic 11-day trip in September, making stops in four nations in Asia and Oceania for the first ...