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Canadian English teachers are among the main targets after a TV show painted a picture of foreigners in South Korea as an assortment of high-school dropouts and drug dealers.More
International criminal syndicates operating in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia ravage Indonesian forests to make luxurious hardwood floors in North America.More
A Vancouver mining company says the Canada Tibet Council is not adverse to foreign companies doing business in Tibet.More
On May 16, a Canadian architect will tell the United Nations of a lost Chinese city on the Atlantic coast of North America.More
The first batch of ten nannies or _ayis_ will arrive in Canada this September. They have already been snapped up by Chinese-Canadian employers in Toronto.More
Rooster curse has driven Chinese couples across Asia in a rush to get married... women who get married [in the Year of the Rooster] will face marital problems.More
Two Canadian mining firms have been singled out by the Dalai Lama as having plans that could irreversibly damage the ecology of the Tibetan plateau.More
Ottawa warns Canadians not to work at world renowned elephant sanctuary in Malaysia after women volunteers claim they were drugged and rapedMore
He says that this is "an arrangement made possible only by God". Prof. Yang's fiancee, Weng Fan, is working towards a master's degree at Guangdong University.More
As airlines gear up for a heavy travel holiday season, a new FBI threat assessment
suggests terrorists may use military-grade laser blinding systems to down planesMore
After five Stanley Cups and an indecipherable journey through the National Hockey league, Esa Tikkanen has taken his game to South Korea.More
After spending 10 years of his life working in the United States - where he couldn't marry his partner - Austin Kiyomiya had enough and packed his bags for Coquitlam, B.C.More
Price includes return tickets to Kalimantan from Singapore, a chance to pick a wife among 20 women, the dowry, a wedding banquet, bridal gowns, and photography.
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The wives and mothers fly periodically between Korea where their husbands live and the United States or Canada where their children are attending school.More
A Vancouver man who's wife-to-be was killed in Thailand is outraged that the key suspect charged in the case has fled the Southeast Asian country.More
They jump higher than most basketball players. Their hits make even the fastest tennis serve or the hardest thrown baseball in the major leagues look like a slow motion picture.More
A high ranking Canadian diplomat based in China has left his post suddenly after he was suspected of accepting bribes to help Chinese nationals enter Canada illegally.More
Like many, Vancouver computer programmer Noah Meyer found his paradise in the exotic shores of Phuket in Thailand.More
It costs US$32,000, is as heavy as a brick, but comes with a 24 hour concierge service. The latest status symbol among Asians is the snob phone, a Vertu.More
By the time she was 14, the girl known to millions of Asians simply as Anna-T was working for Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani and Louis Vuitton.More
