Muhyiddin and Mahathir rekindle feud as Malaysia looks beyond virus
KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin faces mounting pressure to prove he has the support of parliament's lower...
Linda J. Dodson
To Japan’s Olympic hopefuls, a year sounds like a long time
TOKYO -- Japanese athletes who had been on training schedules designed to put them at the top of their game...
Cashmere piles up in Mongolia as coronavirus cripples trading
EMEELT, Mongolia -- After years of expanding their goat herds to meet growing demand for soft cashmere from Chinese traders...
China scores points over Russia with ‘mask diplomacy’ in Belarus
MOSCOW -- China's coronavirus aid has earned mixed reviews in Europe at best, but it appears to be working as...
European coronavirus variant now drives global spread
TOKYO -- Three major types of the novel coronavirus have spread across the world, with the European version moving beyond its point...
Asia and world seek different paths to exit coronavirus crisis
TOKYO -- Japan, its Asian neighbors, European countries and the U.S. are all looking to carve their own unique paths...
Satellite firm Inmarsat piling on extra loans through debt restructuring
Britain's largest satellite operator is piling on debt as its crucial in-flight broadband business suffers alongside grounded airlines. Private equity-owned Inmarsat,...
Insurers have become the villains of the Covid-19 crisis
As insurance prices fell over the course of almost two decades, so did standards of care in underwriting as insurers...
Takara Bio’s saliva-based coronavirus test to allow samples taken at home
TOKYO -- Takara Bio will release a coronavirus test in Japan as early as this month that uses saliva, enabling samples to be...
Coronavirus pandemic pushes US and China into new Cold War
TOKYO -- While the U.S.-China relationship has become more toxic than ever since their dramatic rapprochement in the 1970s, the...
