By the end of 2020, China is expected to have a “social credit system” in place to rank each of…
From a bucolic rural grocery shop to fictional battlefields and robot warrior bases, Taiwanese artisans are meticulously handcrafting miniature worlds…
All over the world, more establishments are realizing the need to eliminate disposable packaging. A café in Laguna, Philippines has…
Naomi Osaka's victory in the US Open was hailed Sunday by media and officials in Japan, who broadly welcomed her…
Intensive care medics were significantly less likely to have been infected with Covid-19 than cleaners and other healthcare workers in…
When hundreds of Rohingya refugees paid traffickers to escape their squalid camp in Bangladesh, they were promised a new life…
India has more than four million coronavirus cases and an explosive border stand-off with China, but the story dominating television…
Japanese women's football great Yuki Nagasato said she was inspired by Megan Rapinoe's fight for equality as she took the…
Not a day goes by without Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong wondering how long it will be before the…
China is offering state-sponsored marriage counseling to couples before they tie the knot in an attempt to slow rising divorce…
A flawless 102-carat oval diamond will head to auction on October 5 in Hong Kong at Sotheby's.
Sick of noise from construction work, speeding trains and car alarms flooding in through the open window of your tiny…
A coronavirus outbreak at a sumo stable in Tokyo has infected 19 people, the governing body said Thursday, adding that…
Spacious, clean, and almost completely see-through, an unusual new public toilet block has been built in a Tokyo park --…
A pungent smell hangs in the early morning air as researchers collect samples of sewage dumped into a river in…
A festival in Taiwan where enormous pigs are slaughtered and displayed is drawing smaller crowds as animal rights activists alter…
In March 2015, London-born Nico Yennaris played for Wycombe Wanderers in the fourth tier of English football in front of…
South Korean tattooist Doy counts Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt and members of K-Pop band EXO among his celebrity clients, but…
Hundreds of organizations urged the United Nations to probe rights violations in China on Wednesday as other groups called for…
Lawyers representing some of the Hong Kongers captured by the Chinese coastguard as they allegedly tried to flee the financial…
Tokyo's postponed Olympics will go ahead next year regardless of the coronavirus pandemic, IOC vice-president John Coates told AFP Monday,…
K-pop sensation BTS's US-chart-topping single "Dynamite" could generate more than $1.4 billion for the South Korean economy and thousands of…
Nearly 300 people were arrested by Hong Kong police on Sunday as riot officers swooped on democracy protesters opposed to…
China is recasting Wuhan as a heroic coronavirus victim and trying to throw doubt on the pandemic's origin story as…
Holding a fist up next to his head like a soldier, Huang Chunhao makes a solemn vow.
Amazon has banned sales of imported seeds in the United States after thousands of Americans said they had received packets…
Australian director Roderick MacKay was blown away one day in 2014 viewing 19th century photographs of Muslim and Sikh men…
With no end in sight to the coronavirus pandemic, worldwide demand for surgical gloves -- as for other types of…
The British Museum said Thursday it had acquired 103 "lost" drawings from the 19th century of Japanese artist Hokusai, whose…
"Women in Pakistan are really, really strong. We have a voice. We just don’t have enough spaces to use that…
A Chinese LGBT activist has lost her legal bid to get a university textbook corrected for describing gay people as…
Australian police on Thursday defended arresting a pregnant woman in her home for a Facebook post promoting a rally against…
In a society where a popular saying urges women to "regard her son as her master and her husband as…
Restaurants and travel remain the hardest-hit industry by the Covid-19 Pandemic. Despite these challenging times, some of the most recognizable…
Australian star Cate Blanchett hailed the "miracle" organization of this year's Venice Film Festival on Wednesday as the prestigious Italian…
A Thai royal consort who was purged for "disloyalty" after running afoul of the Queen has made a sudden and…
A US Marine convicted of killing a transgender woman in the Philippines has been ordered freed on the grounds of…
A Chinese university's guidelines warning women students not to wear "revealing" clothes on campus "to prevent arousing temptation" have whipped…