Final counts showed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s coalition, like-minded parties and independents had won a two-thirds “super majority.”
Asian share markets enjoyed a relief rally Monday as upbeat U.S. jobs data lessened immediate concerns about the health of the world’s largest economy.
The South Korean defense ministry said last week that the advanced THAAD missile defense system is expected to be deployed on the Korean peninsula by the end of 2017.
The drills come ahead of a July 12 ruling by the Hague on a case brought by the Philippines disputing several of China’s territory claims in the South China Sea.
The attempt by Pyongyang came a day after the United States and South Korea agreed to deploy a missile defense system to counter the North’s nuclear threat.
Hyperloop One, a U.S. startup working on commercializing Elon Musk’s trademark concept, has received a lot of funding from Russian investors.
The defense ministries of South Korea and the U.S. announced in a joint statement Friday plans to deploy THAAD in the Korean Peninsula.
Months before it actually happened, the June 23 vote in the U.K. to take itself out of the EU was making businesses cautious when approaching mergers and acquisitions.
The Chinese company reportedly claimed that a total of 16 Samsung products had violated its patent on mobile terminal and display-related processing methods.
China's government was quick to refute an editorial calling for Beijing to ready itself for war in the contested waters of the South China Sea.
Rodrigo Duterte, known as “the punisher,” won the presidential election in May on a platform of crushing crime. However, his advocacy of extrajudicial killings has alarmed many.
More than a million people were forced to evacuate their homes and relocate, according to Xinhua.
Beijing has begun military drills scheduled to finish July 11, a day before the Permanent Court of Arbitration rules in the territorial dispute between China and the Philippines.
After Brexit, many Asian central banks are willing to ease monetary policy as a prolonged period of uncertainty threatens a wider downshift in trade and investment.
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, now the world’s largest radio telescope, took five years to build and China plans to use it to search for extraterrestrial life.
China’s internet regulator said Sunday that online media cannot report any news taken from social media sites without approval from authorities.
The initial public offering, which is likely to be the world’s largest this year, is expected to take place in September.
The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei have overlapping claims with China in the area, through which $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year.
Tensions have been rising ahead of a July 12 ruling by an arbitration court hearing the dispute between China and the Philippines over the South China Sea.
A subsidiary of China’s broadcasting regulator has alleged that the U.S. tech giant infringed on its exclusive online rights to a 1994 war film.
An arbitration case lodged by the Philippines with an international tribunal in The Hague challenges China’s expansive claims in the South China Sea.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Beijing would stand firm over its claims in the contested waters of the South China Sea.