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Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks — for example, 25 ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
"Outsider art" is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene.
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. “Rafa was just ...
Amid an intensifying crackdown on nongovernmental groups that receive foreign funding, Indian activists are accusing the government of stifling their right to dissent in the world’s largest democracy. India has tightened the rules on nongovernmental organizations over the past two years, following protests that delayed several important industrial projects. About ...
President Barack Obama on Monday welcomed Myanmar’s president to the White House — the first such visit in nearly 50 ...
The military that ran Myanmar for decades will continue to play a major role in the country, the former general ...
China is urging North Korea to release a Chinese fishing boat whose owner says it was seized by gun-toting North Koreans earlier this month and held for ransom, in the latest irritant in relations between the neighboring allies. The seizure of the Liaoning-based boat ...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday he has agreed with his Chinese counterpart to make a new push to settle a long-running border row, pledging his commitment to “peace and tranquility.” “We agreed that our special representatives will meet soon to continue discussions seeking ...
Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, who heads Pakistan’s powerful army and holds significant sway over civilian affairs, visited the incoming prime minister Saturday in what the military described as a show of support for stronger democracy and greater stability as the nation struggles with an economic ...
Australia seized a record 23 tons of illicit drugs in 2011-12 with arrests at a 10-year high, data showed Monday, as officials warned the country has become a key target for traffickers. The annual Australian Crime Commission report showed the amount caught was up ...
North Korea Sunday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, despite pleas from South Korea and the U.N. chief to halt the launches at a time of high tensions. The guided missile was fired into the Sea of ...
A hot cup of Ceylon tea is better known as being soothing and relaxing, but Sri Lanka is now marketing its most profitable export as a luxury boost for the libido. The tea industry is increasingly plugging Ceylon’s supposed aphrodisiac qualities in a bid ...
India says all issues will be “on the table,” including a recent border spat and a festering trade imbalance, during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to the South Asian giant, which started Sunday. At the same time, New Delhi thinks “very highly” of Li’s ...
Gunmen killed a Pakistani politician from Imran Khan’s party in the southern port city of Karachi on the eve of a partial rerun of May 11 polls that were marked by more than 150 killings. Zohra Hussain, 59, vice president of the women’s wing ...
South Korea on Sunday condemned North Korea’s latest short-range missile launches as “provocative” and again urged it to hold talks about a suspended jointly run industrial park. Officials in Seoul on Sunday said the North fired another projectile into waters off its eastern coast ...
Pakistan is set to become the fifth Asian country to use China’s domestic satellite navigation system, which was launched as a rival to the U.S. Global Positioning System, a report said Saturday. The Beidou, or Compass, system started providing services to civilians in the ...
An investigation into whether Wal-Mart may have bribed Indian officials to gain wider access to the country’s vast market has been “closed” due to lack of evidence, a report said Saturday. The one-man committee of retired Justice Mukul Mudgal probing the matter is likely ...
The former head of Hong Kong’s anticorruption agency attended an inquiry Saturday by legislators over alleged lavish spending and misuse of public money. Timothy Tong, the former commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, allegedly overspent on business meals and gifts, treating mainland Chinese ...