In his Olympic year, Oscar Pistorius steadily became an avid firearms collector, joining a gun-collecting club and purchasing a collection of firearms that included a .500 Magnum pistol and a civilian version of a military assault rifle.
It’s a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chugoku no gunkan (中国の軍艦, Chinese warships) in the Higashi Shina Kai (東シナ海, East China Sea) challenged Japan’s Kaijo Jieitai (海上自衛隊, Maritime Self Defense Forces, MSDF) patrols in a manner deemed kyōiteki (脅威的, threatening). And on Feb. ...
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, ...
Manchester United's Shinji Kagawa is back with a bang, becoming the first Asian player to score a hat trick in the English Premier League.
A defiant Beijing restaurateur refused to apologize Thursday despite removing a racist sign barring citizens of states in maritime disputes with China, along with dogs, following an international outcry. The notice in the window of the Beijing Snacks restaurant, near the Forbidden City, had read: “This shop does not receive ...
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman brought his basketball skills and flamboyant style — tattoos, nose studs and all — to ...
Former NBA superstar Dennis Rodman’s colorful tweets from the heart of Stalinist North Korea appear to have upset South Korea’s ...
Being blindfolded, handcuffed and locked in a dark room under the gaze of a surveillance camera is not everybody's idea of fun. But a new game in high-pressure Hong Kong is playing on people's escapist fantasies.
As Hong Kong prepares to usher in the Year of the Snake, an increasing number of the reptiles are slithering their way into local households, with sales of the uncuddly pet rocketing. Keeping snakes has become increasingly popular in the densely populated city in ...
When the Chinese-speaking world ushers in its new year Sunday, its 12-year zodiac will turn from the dragon to one of the world’s most despised animals, the snake. As undeserved as the snake’s reputation might be, its last two years did not go so ...
A stock market slide, escalated conflict between Japan and China and more “Gangnam Style” success for South Korean singer Psy will shape the Year of the Snake, according to soothsayers. Those who make predictions based on the study of feng shui are influential in ...
Pakistan is planning to build a $30 million amusement park in the town where Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs, officials said Monday. The 20-hectare riverside development on the edge of Abbottabad, where the al-Qaida leader was shot dead in May ...
A senior Chinese police officer has been sacked following reports that he owned hundreds of houses and a false ID card, state media said Wednesday, in the country’s latest corruption scandal. Zhao Haibin was stripped of his public offices for “engaging in business deals ...
North Korea has finally responded to persistent rumors that leader Kim Jong Un had plastic surgery to look like his revered grandfather, issuing an angry denial criticizing what it called “sordid” media reports. Speculation that Kim’s resemblance to the country’s founder, Kim Il Sung, ...
Malaysia has been rated the world’s top Muslim-friendly holiday destination in a survey that listed Egypt, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Singapore as runners-up. The study released Wednesday by Singapore-based travel consultancy Crescentrating used criteria including the safety levels, the ease of ...
