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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's main opposition, The Workers' Party, has called for changes to be made to a draft foreign interference law, citing a need for more transparency, after experts and rig...

By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian home lending in August expanded at its fastest annual pace since early 2018 as buyers borrowed ever more to get into a red-hot market, foreshadowing tougher...

By Colin Packham (Reuters) - New Zealand on Thursday passed a new security law to criminalise preparing a terror attack, tightening a loophole that was exposed by a man who went on to conduct a mass s...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Thursday, extending losses after official figures showed an unexpected rise in inventories in the United States although prices seem to have stabilised following a...

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A COVID-19 outbreak within Disney's stage show "Aladdin" prompted an 11th-hour cancellation of Wednesday evening's performance, one night after the production jo...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan Central Bank Governor Yang Chin-long said on Thursday that the economy may grow 6% this year though that depends on trade and domestic consumption growth. Yang, taking lawmak...

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - Access to an online museum dedicated to the victims of China's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square appeared to be r...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's factory activity fared better than expected in September, stabilising after a slump in August, a business survey showed on Thursday, with a smaller decline in production co...

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar hovered near a one-year high versus major peers on Thursday, following a two-day surge amid expectations for a tapering of Federal Reserve stimulus from ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and Chinese military officials held "frank, in-depth" talks this week on a range of defense issues, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, as the countries grapple over their comp...