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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 ...
Delta to beef up Asia service from Seattle
Delta Air Lines wants to expand service to Asia through its partnership with Alaska Airlines. Delta plans to add a flight between Seattle and Shanghai ...
Honda recalls 2002-2006 CR-V for fire risk
Honda Motor Co. is recalling about 489,000 CR-V crossovers in the U.S., Europe and Africa, from the 2002 to 2006 model years because an electrical ...
BOJ defies pressure, interest rates unchanged
Japan's central bank has ended its latest policy meeting Friday with no changes in its key interest rate or asset buying program, resisting government ...
Mitsubishi Motors, Mazda report China sales plunge
Mitsubishi Motor and Mazda have reported a plunge in China auto sales for September when tensions between Japan and China escalated into anti-Japanese ...
Low-cost flying arrives in luxury-loving Japan
Japan has a reputation for loving expensive things like overpriced real estate, gourmet melons and luxury brands. But the nation is finally ...
Sony-Olympus alliance aims for high-tech surgery
Sony's new alliance with scandal-tarnished Olympus will focus on producing endoscopes and other surgical tools packed with the Japanese electronic ...
UN urges protection for elderly as world grays
The fast aging of Japanese society is evident as soon as one lands at Tokyo's Narita airport and sees who is doing the cleaning. Young people tend to ...
Storm speeds out of Japan after injuring dozens
A weakening tropical storm was speeding out of Japan on Monday after bringing gale-strength winds to Tokyo and injuring dozens of people, causing ...