Tag: Asia

A glittering line-up of top Asian cinema stars converged on the South Korean port city of Busan on Oct 4 for the opening of the region’s premier international film festival. ...

As the United States draws down in Afghanistan, China is finally moving in. Until recently, Beijing's policy in Afghanistan could be characterized as masterful inactivity: It sat on the sidelines ...

An Indian cabinet minister landed himself in hot water Tuesday after claiming that wives lose their appeal with age. Speaking at a Hindi-language poetry meeting in the northern city of ...

Activist artist Ai Weiwei said he does not intend to pay $1.1 million demanded by Beijing tax officials after he lost a final appeal in his case on Sept 27, ...

A Hong Kong tycoon has offered a $65 million "marriage bounty" to any man who can win the heart of his lesbian daughter, a report said Wednesday. Cecil Chao announced ...

In a now familiar global ritual, Apple fans jammed shops from Sydney to Tokyo to pick up the tech juggernaut's latest iPhone. Eager buyers formed long lines on Friday at ...

  Russia told Saturday it wouldn't collaborate with a new round of EU sanctions against Syria and wouldn't comply with inspections of ships flying the Russian flag. "We don't plan ...

China stated on Friday it would "severely" analyse a new United Nations. draft resolution on Syria after Syrian democracy activists told more than two hundred people, mostly civilians, were slaughtered ...

Minatures and engravings are a form of picture art. There are techniques in the ideas and approches to drawing. They have played a part in the developement of picture art ...

Agence France-Presse   Global airlines will need 33,500 new planes valued at $4.0 trillion in less than two decades, with Asia accounting for about 35 percent of the total, U.S. ...