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PHNOM PENH/BANGKOK -- The Cambodian and Thai armies exchanged gunfire across the border in several places on Thursday, ...
PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- France intends to recognize a Palestinian state in September at the United Nations General Assembly, President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday in hopes of bringing peace ...
July 25, 7:50 a.m. The deputy spokesperson of Thailand's Ministry of Health, Varoth Chotpitayasunondh, has posted updated Thai casualty figures on his Facebook account. He said 13 civilians and one ...
Cambodia has yet to release any casualty figures. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has appealed to the United Nations ...
MANILA -- Filipinos with an itch to gamble have always had ways to do so, whether it was betting on cockfights, horse races, poker, numbers games or bingo cards. Often the games were illegal, so ...
HONG KONG -- A price war has broken out in the Hong Kong financial world as competition among investment banks drives down underwriting fees for initial public offerings in what has become the world's ...
TOKYO -- Japanese telecom NTT has been on a mission to help industries reduce their electricity consumption by promoting a switch to optical fibers from copper wires for everything from long-distance ...
ISLAMABAD -- Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan signed a framework agreement last week to build a railway line connecting landlocked Central Asia to Pakistani seaports, although analysts say the ...
NAGO, Japan -- A jungle theme park opened in Okinawa on Friday to crowds of eager visitors from both home and abroad, in a bid to capitalize on Japan's surging tourism growth.
5:30 p.m. Lt. Gen. Maly Socheata, spokeswoman for the Cambodian Defense Ministry, said in a press conference that Thailand ...
A U.S. fact sheet on the Japan tariff deal released Wednesday states that "imports from Japan will be subject to a baseline 15% tariff rate" but does not clarify when that will start.
TOKYO -- A panel for Japan's Cabinet Office agreed Thursday to allow research on the creation of fertilized egg cells from sperm and eggs produced from human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells for ...