TOKYO -- The blasts near Kabul's airport Thursday that killed 13 US service members mark a tragic end to two decades of American presence in Afghanistan.

Despite the recent evacuations conducted by the US and other nations, another a few hundred thousand Afghans who cooperated with the Americans reported still remain in the country, according to some estimates. These people could be subject to retribution from the Taliban, despite the assurance of asylum from Afghanistan's new rulers.

"My family members are in danger, being searched for

MANILA -- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he will allow casinos on the resort island of Boracay in a policy reversal that opens the door for Macao's Galaxy Entertainment Group and local tycoon Andrew Tan to pursue integrated resort projects there.

In 2018, Duterte banned casinos from being built on the central island, famous for its white sand beaches, following a six-month closure and cleanup project. His decision stalled millions of dollars in potential investments, including Galaxy's project, which was worth as much

Nick Butler is a visiting professor at King's College London and a former senior executive at energy company BP.

Despite the strongly worded and unequivocal report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a scientific body that operates under the auspices of the United Nations, published at the beginning of August, the prospect of global agreement on action to limit global warming seems further away than ever.

The IPCC report suggests that we are on track for warming of at least three degrees by the end of the century and that in the

Boonsithi Chokwatana is chairman of Saha Group, Thailand's leading consumer products conglomerate. This is part 30 of a 30-part series .

I turned 84 on July 25. All my life, I have always tried to eat and dress as simply as possible.

I have followed my morning routine for decades: I wake up at 4 o'clock, check what is going on in the world by watching the news on TV and, more recently, by scrolling through the Line app on my

PHNOM PENH -- South Korean banking giant KB Financial Group is increasing its bet on Cambodia's microcredit industry, a fast-growing $13 billion sector facing increased scrutiny over concerns about overindebtedness and human rights violations.

New York-listed KB this month announced it had taken full ownership of Prasac Microfinance Institution, Cambodia's largest microlender, completing an acquisition that began in April 2020 when it paid $603.4 million to buy 70% of the company from Sri Lanka'

TAIPEI -- Security talks between Taipei and Tokyo on Friday were focused on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s planned investment in Japan and future collaboration on the chip supply chain, a key lawmaker in Taiwan's ruling party said.

The comments were made at the first ever regional security dialogue between the ruling parties of Taiwan and Japan -- a meeting, already condemned by Beijing, that comes amid growing Chinese aggression in the region.

"Collaboration on the semiconductor industry was one of the key focuses of the talks,

LAHORE, Pakistan -- Pakistan is lobbying four Central Asian nations that, like itself, share a border with Afghanistan in an effort to coordinate a diplomatic approach to the Taliban, the extremist Islamic movement which is solidifying its hold on the war-torn country, Nikkei Asia has learned.

Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who is on a three-day tour through Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Iran, intends to bring the nations together to pressure the Taliban to form an inclusive and broad-based government now that

PHNOM PENH/JAKARTA/BANGKOK -- Two months after the collapse of Cambodia's first oil venture, the spotlight has turned to the fate of millions of dollars worth of oil pumped from the country's offshore concession before production was halted -- with the focus now on a ship seized by Indonesia.

Indonesia's navy announced on Wednesday that it had taken into custody the Bahamian-flagged tanker MT Strovolos, which Cambodia claims is carrying nearly 300,000 barrels of crude allegedly stolen from

TOKYO -- Smartphone app providers in Japan, Europe and the U.S. will work together in a bid to curb the influence wielded by tech giants such as Apple and Google, Nikkei has learned.

Japan's Mobile Content Forum, which is made up of around 80 app service companies, will join forces with the European Games Developer Federation. Together they intend to look into whether Apple and Google, both of which own powerful app distribution platforms that run on their smartphone operating systems, are pressuring smaller app