Food-sharing services come to rescue eateries in Japan
TOKYO -- With more people staying home to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, restaurants, grocery stores and farms...
Economic
Trade deal promises falter as US exports to China fall 15%
WASHINGTON -- American exports of goods to China dropped 14.7% on the year for the January-March quarter, as the coronavirus...
Duterte apologizes to Philippine tycoons he threatened to jail
MANILA -- A "humbled" President Rodrigo Duterte apologized to business tycoons he once threatened to jail after saying he welcomed...
Philippine TV network that angered Duterte ordered shut
MANILA (Reuters) -- The Philippines' telecoms body ordered the country's leading broadcaster ABS-CBN Corp to cease operations on Tuesday, as a parliament dominated...
Taiwan rebuffs WHO, says China has no right to represent it
TAIPEI (Reuters) -- Only Taiwan's democratically-elected government can represent its people on the world stage, not China, its foreign ministry...
Hong Kong to relax social-distancing controls and reopen schools
HONG KONG -- Hong Kong will relax some social-distancing measures and reopen shuttered schools after the city reported no locally...
Japan’s national rugby team to be certified Tier 1
TOKYO -- World Rugby, the sport's governing body, has decided to certify Japan as a Tier 1 country, making it...
Yoma Bank sets the pace as Myanmar’s banking sector opens up
YANGON -- Myanmar's Yoma Bank, a mainstay lender in the Southeast Asian country, is setting the pace in attracting foreign...
Coronavirus shackles Japan’s space startups with another crisis
TOKYO/SINGAPORE -- Interstellar Technologies, a Japanese startup, was primed to test-launch its demonstration rocket on May 2. But less than...
The subatomic age: Asia’s quantum computing arms race
SINGAPORE/TOKYO -- Dzmitry Matsukevich's laboratory is cramped and windowless, dominated by two large tables laid out with arrays of lasers,...
