Articles in Asia
Apparently, Boys Over Flowers casts seem to have a more beautiful friendship bonding than flowers do. Because on October 21, they are all seen together during Kim Joon’s first music album launching The March of …
All Singaporeans must have been familiar with his face. Mark Lee, a Singapore local actor recently (and unintentionally) traveled to India to film the new MediaCorp’s Channel U variety programme, Singapore Flavours every Tuesday at …
One of television’s pioneers and a longtime CBS executive Don Hewitt, the creator of “60 Minutes,” died on Wednesday. He was 86.
Don Hewitt joined CBS News in 1948.
Hewitt, who had been fighting pancreatic cancer, died …
Flash floods have submerged refugee camps in northern Sri Lanka, risking the lives of more than 16,000 Tamil refugees.
These refugees had survived cross-fire in the country’s two-decade civil war only months ago.
According to the U.N. …
Former President of South Korea and Nobel Laureate Kim Dae-jung, who fought for democracy for decades and urged communist North Korea toward peace, died of heart failure on Tuesday.
Kim was admitted to Seoul’s Severance Hospital …
Acccording to the U.S. Geological Survey, a 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck the shores of Japan on Monday morning.
The epicenter of the quake was situated 65 miles (105 kilometers) from Japan’s Ryukyu Islands and 132 miles (212 …
The US man who was imprisoned for visiting Burma’s detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been freed and deported.
John Yettaw, whose health is weak, left Burma on a plane with visiting US …
The President of Taiwan says the number of people killed in mudslides and floods caused by a typhoon could go above 500, with almost 400 of them in a one village alone.
Hsiaolin was knocked …
It could hardly have escaped anyone’s attention that North Korea is planning to launch a rocket. Some countries suspect the rocket might carry a missile, rather than the announced satellite. But the story goes deeper …
Selling alcohol is strictly forbidden in Brunei. So is consuming it in public and taking it with you into the country, unless you’re a foreigner. Wikipedia describes the Bruneian government as an “Islamic Absolute Monarchy“, …
With 1.3 billion people, China has the biggest population of any country in the world. It’s economy has been growing at an astounding average rate of 9% per year since 1978.
China is widely regarded as …
You might already have recognized the puffy little fella on the right. If not from the nervous little character in Finding Nemo, then perhaps from the latest news that seven people in Northern Japan got …
