Global shares mostly rose after US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed to start peace talks for ...

Writer-director Evan Twohy’s debut at Sundance imagines a world where cabbage—yes, cabbage—is illegal The post ‘Bubble & Squeak’ is an absurdist fare that tries its best for laughs appeared first on ...

Miike Takashi and producer Misako Saka on women in Japanese film industry, 'cheap' horror budgets and not being 'conscious' of audiences.

The 200-year-old tile game is popping up in clubs, hotels and parties as a way for Gen Zers and millennials to connect ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping assured Woo Won-shik, South Korea's National Assembly speaker, that China's policy towards South ...

Chinese travelers are canceling plans to visit Thailand during the Lunar New Year holiday, as fears over human trafficking reverberate across the country.

LOUDI, China -- A stalled housing project started by troubled Chinese property developer Country Garden Holdings has left homebuyers in the central Chinese city of Loudi in a bind. "If the home ...

Everett’s latest honor comes from the country’s public libraries. On Sunday, the American Library Association announced that Everett’s “James” was this year’s winner of the Carnegie Medal for ...

As the Japan Times points out, these whimsical, escapist books have long been popular in that country, where the iyashikei (healing) genre already thrives in manga and anime. In Korea, healing fiction ...

On Goodreads, readers of healing fiction describe near-transcendent experiences ... an associate professor in East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto, told CBC News.

Thailand, though, is an outlier in Asia. Few other countries in the region are likely to follow suit. The influence of Islam in Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei makes the notion of equal marriage a ...

However, there is much more that South Asian countries need to do together to improve regional connectivity. The shipping and maritime sector provides a lifeline by linking production centers in South ...