Stock market today: Asian shares track Wall St's advance fueled by cooler jobs data

Asian shares are mostly higher after Wall Street ended Friday ... The Hang Seng in Hong Kong lost 0.2% to 18,447.12 while the Shanghai Composite index rose 0.9% to 3,133.92 as markets reopened after a ... Read More

Summer heat hits Asia early, killing dozens as one expert calls it the "most extreme event" in climate history

Much of Asia is sweltering under a heat wave that one expert calls "by far the most extreme event in world climatic history." ... Read More

Stock market today: Asian shares mostly rise to start a week full of earnings, Fed meeting

Asian shares are trading mostly higher as investors kept their eyes on potentially market-moving reports expected later this week. Read More

Press Watchdog Paints Grim Picture of Southeast Asian Media Freedoms

This trend is very much reflected in Southeast Asia ... news and are rarely the targets of harassment or physical attacks” and “no journalist has ever been jailed in connection with their work.” Most ... Read More

Ranking the Top 10 Asian Countries by Height

Asia, housing the world’s largest population, is frequently linked to shorter average heights compared to Western regions. Height represents a multifaceted characteristic influenced by ethnicity ... Read More

Asia

A missile that crashed in Kharkiv shows the surprising scale at which Pyongyang's weapons are used. Politicians are roping in influencers to woo voters like never before. But is this a good thing ... Read More

AP PHOTOS: South and Southeast Asian countries cope with a weekslong heat wave

In the Philippines, India and Bangladesh, officials have told students to stay home and do their lessons remotely. Read More

Asia stocks set to rise as investors await China and Australia data this week; Japan and South Korea markets closed

On Monday, composite purchasing managers’ index readings will be released by S&P Global for Hong Kong, while service PMI will be out for mainland China and India. Read More

World News

People lined up outside polling stations as voting opened at 7 a.m ... Asian shares mostly rose Friday despite worries about the economic outlook and inflation in the U.S. and the rest of the world. Read More

Asia

May 1, 2024 • This week on the podcast, we're revisiting a conversation we had with Chin about her book, Mott Street. Through decades of painstaking research, the fifth-generation New Yorker ... Read More

World News

After 14 years of Conservative government, Britain’s voters appear hungry for change. And Prime Minister Rishi Sunak seems unable to persuade them otherwise. By Mark Landler Russian military ... Read More