TAIPEI — A 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit the sparsely populated southeastern part of Taiwan on Sunday, the island’s weather bureau said, derailing train carriages, causing a convenience store to collapse and trapping hundreds on mountain roads. The weather bureau said ...

KIEV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed there would be no letup in fighting to regain territory lost to Russia as Kyiv reported its troops had advanced to the eastern bank of the Oskil River, threatening Russian occupation forces in ...

WASHINGTON — US President Joseph R. Biden said US forces would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, his most explicit statement so far on the issue and comments sure to anger Beijing. Asked in a CBS 60 ...

LONDON — Carbon Tracker and Global Energy Monitor said on Monday they had launched the first global registry of oil and gas reserves, production and emissions with data for more than 50,000 fields.  The database makes previously disparate or hard-to-access ...

Taiwan Central Weather Bureau TAIPEI — A 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit the sparsely populated southeastern part of Taiwan on Sunday, the island’s weather bureau said, derailing train carriages, causing a convenience store to collapse and trapping hundreds on mountain roads.  ...

PHNOM PENH — The drones were hard to avoid: they buzzed low over the crowd of protesters holding banners and shouting slogans outside the NagaWorld casino in the Cambodian city of Phnom Penh, then hovered above each of the speakers ...

Cue the rip-roaring rally!! If the stock market follows its recent script, we may see some sort of bounce in stocks in the next few days. That’s because the market is oversold after last week’s beating, and the odds of yet ...

The market took another turn for the worse this past week, with four weeks in a row in the red and the DOW futures dropping, testing significant support from the summer. With the upcoming Fed meeting and higher rates coming ...

BEIJING — Before the pandemic, Doris Fu imagined a different future for herself and her family: new car, bigger apartment, fine dining on weekends and holidays on tropical islands. Instead, the 39-year-old Shanghai marketing consultant is one of many Chinese ...

MUMBAI/KUALA LUMPUR/JAKARTA — Farmers across Asia are busy planting trees to boost palm oil production but nurseries are struggling to keep up with demand for sprouts and seedlings, risking a delay in the industry’s recovery from the coronavirus disease 2019 ...