TOKYO -- The yen is approaching the key psychological threshold of 160 per dollar, but market participants are largely unconcerned about a currency intervention by the Japanese government.

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Oil prices rose about 9% on Thursday as Iran stepped up attacks on oil and transport facilities across the Middle East, and the country's supreme leader said the closure of the ...

Japan is set to start distributing oil reserves from the private sector as early as Monday, with national stocks expected to follow between late March and early April, using negotiated ...

TOKYO -- Japanese biotech startup Orizuru Therapeutics will start clinical trials as soon as fiscal 2027 for a diabetes treatment using induced pluripotent (iPS) stem cells that could reduce insulin ...

TAIPEI -- Taiwan will import more U.S. liquefied natural gas starting in June, looking to diversify its sources following ...

Eli Lilly's Seishin plant in the Japanese city of Kobe. The new investment will help the company meet demand in Japan through 2029. (Eli Lilly Japan) ...

Oil prices rose sharply on Thursday as Iran stepped up attacks on oil and transport facilities across the Middle East, fueling concerns of a prolonged conflict and potential disruptions to oil flows ...

TOKYO -- Hong Kong conglomerate Swire Pacific said on Thursday that its Coca-Cola business is facing higher costs for cans as the war in Iran has further driven up prices of aluminum.

TOKYO -- Rohm and Toshiba are in talks to integrate their power semiconductor businesses, according to sources familiar with ...

There will come a day when companies are run entirely by AI agents, predicts Mukund Jha, and he wants to engineer that transformation with his startup Emergent from the southern Indian city of ...

TOKYO -- China's National People's Congress, the country's rubber-stamp legislature, on Thursday passed a law reflecting ...

"And it appears to be lasting longer, rather than being just a short-term effect." The shortages, he added, are everywhere: ...