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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will loosen loan regulations for homeowners having difficulty repaying "jeonse" deposits to tenants, for a year starting on Thursday, the financial regulator said. Jeonse...

By Chen Aizhu, Emily Chow and Andrew Hayley SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) - Policy reform in China will boost profit for city-gas distributors by letting them raise prices for residential sales above co...

By Scott Murdoch SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian markets were trading mostly weaker on Wednesday ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's expected interest rate rise to be delivered later in the day, as investors...

MANILA (Reuters) - Strong winds and rain lashed the northern Philippines as Typhoon Doksuri made landfall on Wednesday, causing rivers to overflow and leaving thousands without power. Residents in coa...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian inflation slowed more than expected in the June quarter thanks to falls in the cost of holidays and petrol, suggesting less pressure for another hike in interest rates. D...

By Kylie Madry MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Grupo Televisa reported a more than 95% slide in quarterly net profit on Tuesday as the broadcaster's income from its joint venture with Univision slipped and sa...

By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices eased on Wednesday, sliding from three-month highs hit the previous day after industry data showed an expected rise in U.S. crude stockpiles, but losses w...

TOKYO (Reuters) - On a recent vacation in Tokyo, Takumi Yamamoto opted for a special lunch of cricket curry and silkworm sashimi, washed down with a water bug cider. The 26-year-old office worker, fro...

By Rich McKay (Reuters) - The man who sold a fatal fentanyl-laced bag of heroin to actor Michael K. Williams, who played the shotgun-toting drug dealer Omar Little in the HBO crime drama "The Wire," w...

By Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - The Panama Canal will extend restrictions on ships' maximum depth, it said on Tuesday, and it has limited average crossings at one of the world's busiest trade ...