BEIJING – China offered to buy more goods from Brunei and to encourage investment in the Islamic sultanate as…
SAN FRANCISCO – President Joe Biden will highlight strong US ties to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum economies on Thursday, despite a failure to make…
HONG KONG – Alibaba Group’s Hong Kong shares slumped 10% on Friday after it scrapped plans to spin off its cloud business, citing uncertainties fuelled by U.S. curbs on exports to China of chips used in artificial intelligence applications.…
Chinese President Xi Jinping told Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida that Asia’s two largest economies should reaffirm their strategic relationship in their first face-to-face talks in…
SAN FRANCISCO – Countries in the United States-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework have agreed on two more “pillars” of the…
NEW YORK — New York state sued PepsiCo on Wednesday, accusing the beverage and snack food giant of polluting…
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has confirmed a ban on Catholics becoming Freemasons, a centuries-old secretive society that the…
GAZA/JERUSALEM — Israel said its forces were operating in and around Gaza’s biggest hospital, a chief objective in its…