4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (76+ words) September 9, 2026 at 12:27 JST NEW YORK—Huawei Technologies, a leading Chinese tech company, faces a criminal racketeering trial in New York over charges that it stole technology, plotted to steal U.S. trade secrets and committed wire and bank fraud, among other…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (678+ words) September 9, 2026 at 12:28 JST Brent crude rallied towards $100 per barrel on Wednesday, keeping the mood in Asian ‌stock markets subdued, as attacks intensified in the Middle East, stoking inflation ⁠worries ahead of the release ⁠of closely watched U.S. consumer price…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (701+ words) September 8, 2026 at 16:15 JST BANGKOK—China’s exports jumped 25% in August from a year earlier on strong demand for autos and high-tech goods as its record trade surplus widened further, its customs agency said Tuesday. The data was broadly in line with…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (262+ words) September 8, 2026 at 11:25 JST U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George Washington is pictured during the Freedom Edge trilateral exercise among United States, Japan and South Korea in the East China Sea, south of the Korean peninsula and west of Japan's main islands…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (789+ words) September 7, 2026 at 15:34 JST Posters of the six candidates running in the Okinawa gubernatorial election are displayed on an official campaign bulletin board in Naha on Aug. 31. (Kazuyuki Ito) A challenger backed by the Liberal Democratic Party holds a slight lead…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (515+ words) August 21, 2026 at 14:30 JST U.S. President Donald Trump had earlier abruptly ordered the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises just before they began Monday. Trump cited what he described as a good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (482+ words) September 7, 2026 at 07:10 JST A former Japanese defense minister on Friday described a U.S. decision to sanction the International Criminal Court and its Japanese president as an outright attack on the rules-based international order. Gen Nakatani, a veteran lawmaker in the governing…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (116+ words) September 2, 2026 at 06:20 JST A small boat sails past cargo ships and other commercial vessels anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, on Aug. 5. (ISNA via AP, File) WASHINGTON—The U.S. military hit targets in Iran on Tuesday…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (91+ words) September 2, 2026 at 11:05 JST Artists perform as Chinese President Xi Jinping, centre left, is welcomed by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, centre, at Cairo International Airport in Cairo on Sept. 1. (Pool via AP) CAIRO—On the surface, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (931+ words) September 3, 2026 at 11:05 JST PATTAYA, Thailand—There’s no getting around the fact that Thailand’s seaside resort of Pattaya has a lingering reputation for sex tourism, even though that’s only part of the story for the city that’s a major shore leave…...