Authorities in Indonesia's Bali, named Asia's most beautiful island this year, have vowed to show no mercy towards misbehaving tourists in order to protect the island's tourism reputation. Bali's ...

ASHEVILLE - For nearly seven months, French Broad River Brewery's team has worked to get the brewhouse and taproom back in tiptop shape after it was submerged by the Swannanoa River during ...

MANILA, Philippines — Five partylist groups have a statistical chance of winning with the maximum number of seats a party-list can win in the 2025 midterm elections should it be held at present, said ...

BINH DUONG, Vietnam – Lego opened a US$1 billion (S$1.34 billion) factory in Vietnam on April 9, its second facility in Asia as the Danish toymaker pushes to expand its reach across the region.

Here's how US indexes looked in premarket trading: Nasdaq 100 futures: down 0.8% at 17,097 Here's where major Asia indexes ended the trading day: Oil futures tanked to four-year lows: Bond rout ...

In its Asian Development Outlook report, the ADB projected that growth in developing Asia will ease slightly to 4.9 per cent in 2025 - the slowest pace since 2022 - and slow further to 4.7 per ...

The double-digit tariff hikes imposed by the United States’ Trump administration have buckled Asia to its knees. Markets have plummeted, costs have risen, and outlooks on the economic future of ...

Asia’s top shuttlers are ready to battle it out at the 2025 Badminton Asia Championships. The action unfolds from 8 to 13 April at the Ningbo Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium in China’s coastal ...

Factory-led economies are panicking about the steep new tariffs. Not the Philippines, which believes its role as a manufacturing alternative to China can expand. By Alexandra Stevenson Photographs ...

MANILA, April 9 (Reuters) - The full implementation of U.S. tariffs could cut developing Asia's growth by about a third of a percentage point this year and nearly a full percentage point in 2026 ...

Hedge funds have joined the hunt for power-trading talent in Asia, as they push into the region’s increasingly active and volatile electricity markets with the aim of offsetting declining ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...