Like many other Net-savvy Chinese, Beijinger Wu Songzhi has been shopping online for four years. Since March, the human resources manager of a multinational company has been adding something extra into her online shopping cart: organic food.

MUMBAI, Nov 19 (AFP) - No one would ever call Radha Jagarya fortunate. The 45-year-old widow and her four children live on the pavement in an upmarket south Mumbai suburb, scraping a living by selling flowers to passing motorists.

Four months ago, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse looked invincible.

He had ended a quarter-century ethnic conflict with a decisive victory over the separatist Tamil Tigers, a seemingly unbeatable force that brooked no rivals.

BANGKOK (AP) -- Conservationists searching for one of the world's most endangered crocodile species say they have found dozens of the reptiles lounging in plain sight--at a wildlife rescue center in Cambodia.

The afternoon sun shone on a row of old and shabby shophouses in Magazine Road, Penang, and an old couple was busy tying up the bamboo and sewing the banners with a sewing machine.

FERICY, Nov 18 (AFP) - The perfect notes soaring out of the village hall were not produced by your local amateur musicians.

Something got lost in transit in US President Barack Obama's visit to China -- the charismatic rhetoric and dominance of mass communication that took him from nowhere to the White House.

To many, a bagel may be just a doughnut-like bread roll for breakfast. But to Chinese American Lejen Chen, it is something that changed her life.

In the winter solstice 17 years ago, the news of Liao Guo Feng from Kuala Geddes giving birth to triplets of a boy and two girls became a story on everbody's lips.

LONDON, Nov 17 (AFP) - London is one of the most expensive places to live on the planet, but it is also home to tens of thousands of empty properties -- and some people are taking matters into their own hands.