The disputed holy site of Ayodhya in northern India should be given to Hindus who want a temple built there, the country’s Supreme Court has ruled. The case, contested for decades by Hindus and Muslims, centres on the ownership of the land in Uttar Pradesh state. Muslims would get another …
PM Narendra Modi likely to declare India ODF on Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary but experts remain sceptical. New Delhi, India – Khatija, 40, a resident of JP Colony in New Delhi’s Rama Krishna Puram area walks half a mile every day to Nehru Ekta Colony to use a community toilet. “There …
Severe floods and lightning kill at least 666 across India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan as monsoon takes its toll. At least 666 people have been killed by flash floods, lightning and torrential rain caused by the monsoon in South Asia, officials say, as further rain is expected in the region through …
Delayed monsoon rains highlight fragility of the water supply in the deeply agrarian South Asian country. At least 21 cities in India, including capital New Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad, will run out of groundwater by 2020, affecting around 100 million people. India’s news network NDTV said 40 percent of India’s population will …
More than a thousand people participated in a mass wedding banquet in Taiwan on Saturday to celebrate the island becoming the first place in Asia to legally recognize same-sex unions. The event included a wedding ceremony for about 20 couples. Couples walked down a red carpet at the wedding banquet, …
Rats love to munch on palm kernels, and snakes to snack on the rats Few creatures can live comfortably on oil-palm plantations. The orderly rows of trees provide scant refuge for mammals trying to avoid predators and hunters. Monkeys struggle to swing on palm branches; birds have few places to nest. …
Communities around the world are gearing up to celebrate the lunar new year, which this time ushers in the Year of the Pig. New Year celebrations usually mean the animal is depicted everywhere – in decorations, toys, gifts and advertising. But the pig, the last animal on the Chinese …
Drinking in hostess clubs prevalent even amid #MeToo movement Male bonding in such clubs popular in China, Korea, Japan In Tokyo’s Ginza, Seoul’s Gangnam and Beijing’s Chaoyang financial district a familiar scene plays out almost every night of the work week. As dusk falls, businessmen flock to karaoke and hostess …
Kim Jong-un has travelled to China for a fourth round of talks with Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, North Korea’s state media reported on Tuesday. The confirmation came after media speculation that a special train carrying a high-ranking North Korean official crossed the border into China via the city of Dandong late …
The North Korean diplomat who has reportedly defected from Pyongyang’s embassy in Rome is from a prestigious diplomatic family and would have vital information on the inner-workings of Kim Jong-un’s regime. Jo Song-gil, the North’s acting ambassador to Rome, went into hiding with his wife in November and is reportedly seeking asylum. Experts have …
SEOUL/PARIS/TOKYO (Reuters) – From an eye shadow that opens with the flick of a thumb, Zippo-style, to a barely-there foundation in subtle blue-gray packaging: men’s make-up is getting a makeover as manufacturers bid to take it more mainstream. France’s Chanel and Japan’s Pola Orbis are among firms launching new ranges …
BANGKOK (AP) — All the usual rituals of international summits were there: the group photos, the gala dinners, the noticeably vibrant shirts leaders force themselves into. But eclipsing all of that at Asia’s two big meetings was some unusually forthright criticism that exposed deepening divisions rattling the region. Front and …
