Seoul shares closed slightly higher Tuesday as traders were trying to digest the effect of Donald Trump’s possible victory in the U.S. presidential election on the market. The local currency fell against the U.S. dollar.

The benchmark Korea Composit…

KUALA LUMPUR, Digital transformation is essential for small and medium enterprises (SMES) to offset the increased costs from the hike in the service tax, according to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).

Adopting tech…

North Korea has maintained an “extensive and multilayered” system of forced labor in a bid to use it as a means of controlling and monitoring its people for the interest of the state, a U.N. report showed Tuesday.

The United Nations Human Rights Off…

KUALA LUMPUR, The Freedom of Information Bill is expected to be tabled in Parliament by the end of this year, said Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) M Kulasegaran.

He said that the bill would be tabled…

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un warned Tuesday that South Korea will face “gruesome and dear” consequences if it lets North Korean defectors continue to send anti-Pyongyang leaflets to the North.

Kim Yo-jong, vice department d…

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia will raise the issue of plastics pollution plaguing the world when it hosts the ASEAN Summit 2025, said Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability Minister Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad.

He said the proposal to voice the issue had …