AP A car bomb exploded outside a mosque Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi — the third mass-casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this ...
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
The bravery of shot Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai has inspired children around the world to fight for a better education, key figures in a U.N. campaign said Friday. Hosting a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, U.N. special education envoy and former ...
From breast slapping and gold thread face-lifts to vaginal whitening soaps and olive oil penis enlargements, image obsessed Thais are going to ever increasing extremes in the quest for beauty.
A Taiwanese gay couple said Wednesday they have decided to withdraw a controversial case against the government for refusing to register their marriage. Chen Ching-hsueh and his partner, Kao Chih-wei, filed a complaint with the Taipei Administrative Court in 2011 against a government agency ...
A new Indian film looks at the sensitive topic of sexual harassment in the workplace at a time when Bollywood has come under fire for its portrayal of women, after a fatal gang rape shocked the nation. “Inkaar” (“Denial”), a Hindi movie combining crime ...
In subzero winter cold, trainees at an army base outside Beijing wake before dawn to practice martial arts and evasive driving, while a former Portuguese Special Forces soldier barks commands. “We are not polite any more . . . we are only efficient,” declared ...
The gang rape in India of a young woman and her resulting death last month sparked a national outcry and calls for harsh punishment of the five people charged with the crime. Now the case of one of those suspects, a 17-year-old, is generating ...
focus Every time a new Mongolian-language edition of Cosmopolitan magazine is released, Tselmeg Erdenkhuu sits down with a friend to explore a monthly dose of Hollywood gossip, glitzy fashion and scintillating sex. “They talk about sex a lot in this magazine, like what position ...
The Philippine government plans to move about 100,000 squatters from their homes on crucial waterways in Manila by June as a flood control measure and for their own safety, an official said Saturday. The plan is to clear six major waterways in the sprawling ...
The world’s oldest woman, 115-year-old Koto Okubo from Kawasaki, died Saturday at a nursing home in the city, municipal officials reported. Okubo, born Dec. 24, 1897, assumed the title of oldest woman alive in December following the death of a 114-year-old woman in the ...
Singapore on Friday made it costlier for foreigners to buy property and imposed other measures to cool down a market in which home prices have continued to rise despite an economic slowdown. Starting Saturday, foreign buyers will have to pay total stamp duties of ...
Moviegoers in China spent $2.7 billion on tickets last year, turning the country into the second-largest film market in the world, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Sales rose 30 percent from 2011, Xinhua said Wednesday, citing the State Administration of Radio, Film and ...
With its glossy pages of pouting models and racy romance tips, Myanmar’s first sex education magazine has got the usually demure nation hot under the collar as it cashes in on newfound cultural freedoms. The magazine Hyno has sparked fevered debate since hitting Myanmar’s ...
