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...
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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,...
Coronavirus latest: Tokyo preps $4,700 payments to closed stores
The Nikkei Asian Review is tracking the spread of the new coronavirus that originated in the central Chinese city of...
China fires up coal power plant construction
China approved nearly 10 gigawatts of new coal-fired power generation projects in the first quarter, roughly equal to the amount approved...
Philippines’ Duterte apologizes to tycoons he threatened to jail
MANILA -- A "humbled" President Rodrigo Duterte apologized to business tycoons he once threatened to jail after saying he welcomed...
Indonesia endures weakest GDP growth since 2001 as pandemic hits
JAKARTA -- Indonesia's economic growth slowed more than expected in the first quarter of 2020 as the impact of the...
