Rental home investors poised to benefit as mortgage rates, high home prices sideline buyers in 2025
Elevated mortgage rates, rising home prices and other U.S. housing market trends that have kept many would-be homebuyers on the sidelines are likely to remain hurdles next year, driving solid demand ...
Japan passes $250B economic package meant to lift wages and spur growth
Japan has approved a $250 billion economic stimulus package centered around initiatives intended to boost incomes.
Taiwan president will visit allies in South Pacific as rival China seeks inroads
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te will visit the self-governing island’s allies in the South Pacific, where rival China has been seeking diplomatic inroads.
In Bali, young girls dance in a traditional Hindu festival threatened by changing times
Ketut Nita Wahyuni lifts her folded hands prayerfully to her forehead as a priest leads the temple gathering. The 11-year-old is preparing to perform the Rejang Dewa, a sacred Balinese dance. The ...
Iran’s vast collection of Western art, much long hidden, re-emerges despite high tensions with US
As Iran faces increasing tensions with the West and turmoil at home, a new exhibition at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art is displaying Western artwork including pieces not seen by the public in ...
Indigenous leaders travel to UK from Peru to draw attention to oil damage and banking
Indigenous leaders from the Wampis Nation in Peru are urging lawmakers at the House of Commons in London to ban international banks’ support for Amazon oil activities they say harm their ancestral ...
India’s Adani Group shares show some recovery despite uncertainty over US bribery and fraud charges
The companies of billionaire Gautam Adani, one of Asia’s richest men, showed some signs of recovery on Friday even as controversy and uncertainty continued to roil the Indian tycoon’s businesses after ...
Australia rejects Elon Musk’s claim that it plans to control access to the internet
An Australian Cabinet minister has rejected X Corp. owner Elon Musk’s allegation that the government intends to control all Australians' access to the internet through legislation that would ban young ...
Second Australian teen dies in tainted alcohol case in Laos that has killed 6 tourists
Laotian police have detained the manager and owner of a hostel where two teenage Australian tourists stayed who were poisoned by tainted alcohol, one fatally, in a case that appears to have claimed ...
South Korea finds Russia supplied anti-air missiles to North Korea in return for its troops
A top South Korean official says Russia has supplied anti-air missiles to North Korea in exchange for it sending troops.
The Bahamas will refinance part of its debt to protect its famous turquoise waters
The Bahamas says it will refinance $300 million of its external debt to free up more than $120 million for marine conservation projects and climate change mitigation.
Teen girl dies after being rescued from Lake Washington
A 17-year-old girl died three days after rescue swimmers pulled her from the frigid waters of Lake Washington in South Seattle.