Iran's benchmark TEDPIX stock index has climbed 7.3% since early April. The rial has surged 17% to 880,000 against the dollar ...

DUBAI/TOKYO -- Saudi Arabia is reaching out to Japan as part of a high-profile, big-money effort to make sports a pillar of a more diverse economy. The oil-rich kingdom scored a big win when it was ...

BANGKOK/YANGON -- Heineken and other international players have gained the upper hand in Myanmar's beer market as drinkers in ...

ISLAMABAD -- For nearly 20 years, a restaurant called Monal was a go-to fixture for well-heeled diners in Pakistan's capital.

HOBART, Australia -- It is no faster than walking, and it is one of the most physically taxing forms of travel. But the ...

The U.S. Dollar Index, which measures the greenback's strength against the yen, euro and other major currencies, sank under ...

"Child, this is [the] apocalypse," said a voice note, received within the first hours of Myanmar's devastating recent ...

NAGOYA -- Central Japan Railway is making a multi-pronged effort to draw more international visitors to its Tokyo-Osaka ...

SAO PAULO (AP) -- Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will meet with Russia's Vladimir Putin in Moscow and China's Xi Jinping in Beijing, two important partners for the South American giant, ...

DUBAI (Reuters) -- Iran and the U.S. will hold a new round of nuclear talks in Rome on Saturday to resolve their decades-long standoff over Tehran's atomic aims, under the shadow of President Donald ...

SHIZUOKA, Japan -- The town office of Higashiizu, along a peninsula southwest of Tokyo well known for its hot springs, has come up with a novel approach to attracting tourists, unstaffed souvenir ...

Panyu district's narrow streets are lined with workshops, many of which supply Chinese fast fashion brand Shein. Piles of Shein bags, which arrive by mail to shoppers in the U.S., could be seen ...