TOKYO -- American businesses in China have grown more worried about the country's economic headwinds than bilateral tensions, even as they continue to bet on the market's vast opportunities, according to an annual study.

HO CHI MINH CITY -- Vietnam and South Korea have agreed to work together on nuclear energy and boost trade by more than 50%, to $150 billion by 2030, as their presidents met in Hanoi.

SINGAPORE -- Consumer inflation is accelerating across Southeast Asia, sparked by disruptions to oil supplies caused by the U.S.-Iran war, with countries that rely heavily on Middle East oil imports such as Vietnam and the Philippines seeing their sharpest price rises in years in March.

TAIPEI -- The cancellation of Taiwan President Lai Ching-te's trip to Africa this week, after China allegedly swayed countries to deny him overflight clearance, marks a new pressure strategy that is stirring concern far beyond Taipei.

ISLAMABAD -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Washington would extend its ceasefire in the Persian Gulf indefinitely, citing Iran's "seriously fractured" government. Pakistani officials, however, are laying the blame for the stalled peace talks on the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has made a huge splash since coming to office nearly six months ago. Her popularity propelled her ruling Liberal Democratic Party to a two-thirds majority for the first time in its seven-decade history, and she's taken the global stage by storm with her energetic diplomacy.

Now she is facing the first major test of her time in office as the war in the Middle East roils markets and the nation's economy. The conflict is also posing questions about Japan's security capabilities