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To say that the pitcher plant is a botanical oddity is not far from wrong.More
China has honored movie stars Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat in a commemorative stamp collection marking 100 years of Chinese cinema.More
Tae, a 40-something taxi driver with gappy teeth, thumped his fist on the steering wheel as he drove his Japanese car through the wide streets of Pyongyang.
"Imperialists are trying to overthrow our country," he said.More
Japan's biggest crime syndicate has a new boss and Tokyo police fear he will widen its activities in the capital - Kenichi Shinoda, a 63-year-old convicted killer.More
Portuguese sailors in the 16th Century called the island of Taiwan 'Ilha Formosa', Beautiful Island.More
A sure sign of moral hypocrisy is to do one thing for your friends and then quite the opposite for others.More
The crowd cheers at a feverish pitch. Five seconds left--he shoots, he doesn't score! Despite expensive equipment and limited facilities,
Asia seems to be catching the hockey spirit.
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Come September, hundreds of thousands of your tax dollars will be spent to protect and serve China's president, Hu Jintao.More
Scientists concerned about transmission of viruses from monkeys to humans are warning travellers to Asia not to pet or feed the numerous monkeys at temples and other tourist sites.
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Chinese students in Japan turn to crime to beat the high costs of living and the pressure to succeed. "Many have had to withdraw because they couldn't pay."
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Growing trade in stolen Tibetan artifacts fuelled by
traffickers seeking to exploit region's cultural relics. The ancient Himalayan culture of Tibet is already subject to strict controls from Beijing.
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Competing to be the IT outsourcing centre in China, Dalian has started a worldwide talent hunt for software professionals.More
Rumors of secret maps, symbols carved in rocks and booby-trapped underground chambers filled with looted gold have lured treasure hunters to the Philippines for decades.More
After a dozen horrific beheadings in the Muslim-majority south, leaflets have appeared reportedly threatening to chop off the ears of any Muslim who works on weekends.More
A new blood test that enables expectant mothers to find out the gender of their baby is sending jitters around the world.More
Four foxy sirens,Korea's first transgender group, are creating media frenzy in Korea as they poise to take the entertainment industry by storm.More
Wu Yi is among the highest-ranked among nine Asian women on the annual Forbes' list of world's most powerful women.More
Sandakan in Sabah is a town rich in historical sites. Western visitors come to visit its historical monuments. More
While the police in United States and the United Kingdom keep a special lookout for men hauling rucksack in India, they have been peering into people's cell phones.More
Eradication campaign was spearheaded by the U.S. government with support from the European Union. The sight of villagers weighing out opium is becoming increasingly rare.More
