(Reuters) -- Thousands of North Korean troops are being prepared to fight on Russia's behalf in Ukraine and some North Korean ...

A section of the road and rail links with South Korea is blasted to completely block the links off, according to North Korea's state media, at an undisclosed location along North Korea's southern ...

Deng Xiaoping understood the importance of regularly renewing leadership with younger, well-prepared individuals. For the past four decades, China has methodically groomed the next generation of ...

BANGKOK -- The fall and rise of Thailand's two latest prime ministers can be traced in the share prices of their family ...

In the coming decades, the Asia-Pacific region faces a series of challenges that threaten to exacerbate poverty. Among these, ...

Henny Sender is the founder and managing partner of Apsara Advisory, a strategic consultancy for financial services companies. She was previously a managing director at investment company BlackRock.

Beijing backs strategic tech like drones and chips, while general venture funds dry up ...

After years of uncertainty, the new Government has brought stability back to the British economy. We have done so because stability is the precondition for economic growth -- and if growth is the ...

Southeast Asia is standing on the cusp of the era of the megacity. By 2050, over 65% of the region's population is expected to live in urban areas, driven by rapid growth and the concentration of ...

In 2010, four years after setting up our Tokyo office, KKR acquired Intelligence, a recruitment and employment services firm, from Usen, a major cable broadcasting company.

TOKYO -- U.S. stock market operator Nasdaq expects key Japanese startups to list on its bourse as early as next year, driven ...

In 1994, George Roberts (KKR co-founder) and I started discussing plans to expand our buyout business into Europe. At that ...