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 Chinese Army controls some of the most prolific hackers in the world, an Internet security firm that traced a host of cyber-attacks to an anonymous building in Shanghai reports.
Israel on Wednesday admitted for the first time that it had held an Israeli with dual citizenship under a false name for security reasons, and that he died in prison more than two years ago — details that shed new light on a case ...
Myanmar’s government denied Monday that it was behind a possible attempt to hack into the email accounts of journalists working for foreign and local media who Google warned might have been the targets of “state-sponsored attackers.” At least 12 reporters, including a Yangon-based correspondent ...
It’s computer scrolling, not ancient scrolls, for Jewish culture lovers as the world’s most famous Yiddish newspaper relaunched its website Monday in a bid to stave off extinction. Forverts, founded in 1897 when Yiddish-speaking Jews from Eastern Europe were pouring into America, has been ...
The Obama administration is considering more assertive action against Beijing to combat a persistent cyber-espionage campaign it believes Chinese hackers are waging against U.S. companies and government agencies.
Protestors gathered Monday at the offices of a Chinese newspaper at the center of a censorship row to call for media freedom, in a rare demonstration on the subject in the country. Hundreds of people were protesting outside the Southern Weekly’s office in Guangzhou, ...
Chinese citizens were last year treated to an unaccustomed number of hard-hitting exposes and investigations detailing the private lives and corrupt financial dealings of the most senior Communist Party officials and their family members. Most of the reports have come from what one local ...
New York AFP-JIJI A New York Times reporter has been forced to leave China two months after the newspaper carried a critical report on the wealth of the family of outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao. Chris Buckley, who has worked in China as a journalist ...
