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With the passage of a defense bill and an agreement on a spending package, the 117th Congress is wrapping up an extremely productive two years in office. This Congress, when Democrats held narrow margins in both houses, stands in sharp…

Federation of Korean IndustriesBusiness lobbies of South Korea and the United States held an annual conference Thursday on efforts to enhance economic cooperation, with the new US law on electric vehicles (EV) that Korea has called…

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (Yonhap)North Korea has held a Cabinet meeting to assess its economic performance so far this year and called for utmost efforts to achieve its goals in the remaining months, its state media reported…

Ernestas Tyminas felt "stuck" in his role as a marketing manager at a newspaper in Colorado Springs, Colorado.So he requested two months off to backpack through Asia, he said, landing in Beijing in January 2019."On the first day … I meet…

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Hong Kong's new Chief Executive John Lee at the swearing-in ceremony on July 1, 2022. Xi, in his first trip outside the mainland since Covid struck, presided over the ceremony.Justin Chin | Bloomberg |…

International air travel has been making a strong recovery this year, with the exception of the Asia-Pacific region, which is "lagging significantly behind," according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA)."Last year,…

Defense Ministry building in Yongsan-gu (Yonhap)The Cabinet on Tuesday approved the remaining 13.6 billion won ($10.9 million) in reserve government funds for President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol's plan to relocate the presidential…

This file photo from March 22, 2022, shows buildings for the Joint Chiefs of Staff (L) and the defense ministry in the Yongsan district, central Seoul. (Yonhap)The Cabinet will hold an extraordinary session this week to approve…

SINGAPORE — Hong Kong's Hang Seng index led gains among the major Asia-Pacific markets on Monday as Chinese tech stocks in the city jumped.In morning trade, the Hang Seng index gained about 1% as shares of Tencent surged 2.16%. Other…

View of the Singapore Central Business District.Suhaimi Abdullah | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesSINGAPORE — Singapore's three largest banks are expected to report improved earnings as the global economy recovers from the Covid-19…