It's much harder to get a magic tattoo in Cambodia than it used to be, laments Chey Cham.

I was butting heads the other day with someone who keeps bleating on about what a tough time they’re having, despite enjoying a highly privileged expat existence. We all know someone like this, who moans about everyone and everything in sight, when they actually have it good.

We all love Bollywood. Okay, maybe it’s just me and the one billion plus Indians (also count other South Asians whose staple are Hindi films).

The legendary educational puppet program "Sesame Street," home of Big Bird and Elmo, celebrated its 40th anniversary Tuesday as the longest running children's show on US television.

RAIPUR, Nov 11 (AFP) - Police fighting a Maoist insurgency in the forests of eastern India face a rebel force that knows the terrain far better and is willing to use the local civilian population as camouflage.

If you have S$200,000 (US$142,000) to spare, you could buy yourself a piece of the Hollywood dream.

Singapore-based Indonesian businessman Eddy Syahputra, 35, has done that. The owne r of two skincare product companies invested over US$200,000 with a Los Angeles-based film-maker who is making a biopic of convicted Wall Street trader Bernie Madoff.

Cameron Highlands in Pahang Darul Makmur still has the magic to lure local and foreign visitors despite a two degree Celsius increase in the temperature over the last 10 years.

Hell, we all felt like kids at kindergarten or, alternatively, animals going into Noah’s Ark two by two...But no. We our group was variously aged from the 20s to close to 60 (me) and beyond. We were no kindergarten kids. And this was no kindergarten or Ark, even if it did resemble a zoo at times.

Newly elected governments often come into power with bold ideas for change, particularly if they have been in opposition for some time. But untested ideas and inexperience in government can quickly lead to problems. Recent developments in Japan suggest that the new government in Tokyo is no exception.

Deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia blooms the world's biggest flower -- a massive fleshy orb designed by nature to attract insects by mimicking the colour and stench of rotting meat.