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Edwin Q. White, former AP Saigon chief, dies
One night in 1969, as a salvo of Viet Cong rockets exploded in the streets of Saigon, Edwin Q. White paused after typing a dateline on his typewriter ...
Sony reduces loss on sales recovery, restructuring
Sony Corp. reported Thursday a smaller flow of red ink for the fiscal second quarter on a sales recovery and restructuring efforts and stuck to its ...
Sandy shuts down Northeast air travel
Superstorm Sandy grounded more than 18,000 flights across the Northeast and the globe, and it will take days before travel gets back to normal.
Japan spent rebuilding money on unrelated projects
About a quarter of the $148 billion budget for reconstruction after Japan's March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster has been spent on unrelated ...
APNewsBreak: Toyota headed to record global sales
Toyota is shrugging off a sales plunge in China set off by a territorial dispute and says it is headed to a record year on the back of strong growth ...
Honda profit jumps, lowers forecasts on China woes
Honda's quarterly profit surged 36 percent as Japanese automakers bounced back from last year's tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan, but the ...
Cesium levels in fish off Fukushima not dropping
Radioactive cesium levels in most kinds of fish caught off the coast of Fukushima haven't declined in the year following Japan's nuclear disaster, a ...
Cesium in fish off Fukushima not declining
Radioactive cesium levels in most kinds of fish caught off the coast of Fukushima haven't declined in the year following Japan's nuclear disaster, a ...
AP Interview: Japan nuke plant water worries rise
Japan's crippled nuclear power plant is struggling to find space to store tens of thousands of tons of highly contaminated water used to cool the ...
Softbank to buy 70 percent of Sprint for $20.1B
Sprint dug a hole for itself when it bought Nextel in 2005 in one of the worst deals in telecom history. Now, a deep-pocketed friend from overseas ...
China central bank says currency near equilibrium
China's currency has reached its equilibrium rate and its value is mainly determined by the market, rather than intervention, Beijing's central bank ...
Bernanke: Fed policies to help emerging markets
Chairman Ben Bernanke is rejecting arguments that the Federal Reserve's bold moves to bolster U.S. job growth could have unwanted consequences in ...
IMF urges quick, effective moves to buoy growth
Global financial ministers called Saturday for quick and effective action to safeguard faltering economic growth and rebuild shaken confidence as they ...
Geithner: Work remains despite US fiscal progress
Despite making progress on getting its fiscal house in order, the United States still has much work to do, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told ...
Japan utility agrees nuclear crisis was avoidable
The utility behind Japan's nuclear disaster acknowledged for the first time Friday that it could have avoided the crisis. Tokyo Electric Power Co.
Qatar FM calls on UN to back Syria rebels
The United Nations should move quickly to assist rebel forces in Syria with arms and funding, and should support a no-fly zone to protect civilians ...
Geithner: US economy growing despite headwinds
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Thursday that financial reforms and other actions in response to the global crisis are yielding results, ...
Toyota undaunted by latest massive global recall
Toyota executives were unfazed Thursday by the overnight recall of 7.43 million vehicles over faulty power window switches that can cause fires, ...
Finance leaders to address global economic threats
When global finance ministers meet this week in Tokyo, they'll confront a triple challenge: Economic troubles in three major regions are threatening ...
China auto sales fall as Japanese brands shunned
China's auto sales shrank in September as a territorial dispute with Tokyo prompted buyers to avoid Japanese brands, hurting already weakening demand.
China finance officials to skip Tokyo IMF meeting
China's central bank governor and finance minister won't be attending IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Tokyo this week in an apparent snub to ...
Japan economy shaky as island spat hits business
The craggy island specks in the East China Sea aren't even an economic backwater. They have no factories, no highways, no shops, no people — only ...
NKorea says South, US are within its missile range
North Korea on Tuesday warned that the U.S. mainland is within range of its missiles and said that Washington's recent agreement to let Seoul possess ...
China consumers spurn Japan cars amid islands row
Sales of Japanese vehicles nosedived in China during September as anti-Japanese sentiment flared over a territorial dispute that threatens to hobble ...
IMF offers bleak assessment of stalled recovery
Plagued by uncertainty and fresh setbacks, the world economy has weakened further and will grow more slowly over the next year, the International ...