David Hutt is a research fellow at the Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS) and Southeast Asia columnist at the Diplomat. He writes the Europe Meets Southeast Asia newsletter.

HONG KONG -- Bad loans are ballooning at Hong Kong-listed HSBC Holdings and its majority-owned Hang Seng Bank as the financial hub's commercial real estate slump weighs on the banking sector.

Australia said on Wednesday it will add YouTube to sites covered by its world-first ban on social media for teenagers, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the Alphabet-owned video-sharing site and ...

A tsunami warning in Japan on Wednesday disrupted road, rail and air traffic, and factories were forced to halt operations, even as the country is busy with international tourists during the summer ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan's ruling coalition agreed on Wednesday with four major opposition parties to abolish a provisional gasoline tax as soon as possible this year, as it gave in to opposition ...

NEW YORK -- The U.S. and China are pushing to extend their tariff truce after negotiations aimed at tackling trade disputes between the world's two largest economies ended in Stockholm on Tuesday.

BANGKOK -- Following hastily convened talks in Malaysia on Monday led by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, this year's ASEAN chair, Cambodia and Thailand are managing a ceasefire to their latest ...

An announcement posted Wednesday on the website of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission said a ceremony to mark the establishment of the spun-off China Changan Automobile ...

OSAKA -- Yasuyuki Higuchi, CEO of Panasonic Connect, which develops software and provides digital services, will step down March 2026, Nikkei has learned.

TOKYO -- India's government-backed National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) is doubling down on the Indian private equity market, hoping the country's rapid economic growth will fuel more ...

TOKYO -- The Japan Fair Trade Commission on Tuesday released final guidelines for legislation barring Google and Apple from blocking rival app stores from their platforms, with only tweaks to the ...

TOKYO -- Japan is hoping that the lack of a written agreement with the U.S. regarding their trade deal will help get tariff cuts on track quickly, but some points of disagreement between the countries ...