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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Thursday that there was a 40% chance that the El Nino phenomenon would continue into the end of the Northern Hemisphere spring. The El Nino is a warmin...

(Reuters) - Alphabet's Google said on Wednesday it is laying off hundreds of people working on its voice-activated Google Assistant software and is eliminating a similar number of roles in the company...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan should gradually raise short-term interest rates and make its bond yield control policy more flexible, if inflation stays around its 2% target and i...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia and Singapore on Thursday agreed to jointly develop a special economic zone (SEZ) in the southern Malaysian state of Johor, the two countries said in a joint statemen...

By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Investors are bracing for a volatile reception to Taiwan's election on Jan. 13, with added focus on the island's chip sector, after China said the poll was a ch...

By Samuel Shen and Vidya Ranganathan SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China's real estate investment products are tumbling, extending last year's slump as investors lose hope for a recovery in the econo...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai consumer confidence rose in December, reaching the highest level in 46 months, boosted by government measures to ease living costs and increased tourism, a survey showed on Th...

By Cordelia Hsu SYDNEY (Reuters) - Hundreds of hip-shaking and wig-wearing Elvis Presley fans on Thursday began their annual pilgrimage to the Elvis Festival in the Australian outback, the world's lar...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Bitcoin held steady on Thursday after regulators approved the first U.S.-listed exchange traded funds (ETFs) to track the world's largest cryptocurrency, seen as a landmark move ...

MANILA (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Manila confirmed on Thursday that the U.S. delivered fuel from one of its naval bases in Hawaii to a facility inside a former U.S. base in the Philippines in coo...