The curriculum vitae of CNN International Asia Pacific managing editor Ellana Lee reads like an aspiring journalist’s dream: graduated from Georgetown University with a double major in international relations and history, graduated from New York University with a master’s in broadcast journalism, started working at CNN in 1997 and still going strong.

It all started a month ago when he was invited to join the team testing Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like service launched by China’s portal giant Sina.com. Tan admits that despite being an active blogger, he had little idea about Twitter or micro-blogging.

Towering statues of the heroes of India's "untouchable" caste, shrouded in blue tarpaulin, provide a surreal sight for drivers speeding along a highway near the national capital.

Young celebrities in Indonesia today are living the good life. They make fantastic sums to star in TV series or for their albums. Teen star Agnes Monica reportedly earned 40 million rupiah (US$4,180) per episode, one of the highest paid actors in the country, when she played a young unmarried mother in the TV show Pernikahan Dini.

Hillary Clinton’s love affair with Pakistan was short-lived. Back in the US she flatly denied the charge that India was sparking unrest in Balochistan. She also observed that since Pakistan could criticise the Kerry-Lugar Bill, the US also had the right to protest Al-Qaeda’s presence on its land and demand action against it.

Asia is rebounding fast from the depths of the global crisis. What explains this remarkable comeback? What challenges does the recovery pose to Asian policymakers?

Armed with maps and guidebooks, hordes of Chinese families set off across the nation this summer—but some had a hidden agenda to their holidays.

When Filipino migrant women workers in Hong Kong have free time on their (otherwise busy) hands, many of them will choose to grab hold of reading matter.

The lethal shooting spree at a US Army base Thursday dealt a blow to an American military already under severe strain from years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan and plagued by a rise in suicides and depression.

"It has nothing to do with sex," insisted Udo Schumacher, 64, as he stood, stark naked, on a beautiful but bracing beach in Prerow in what was once communist East Germany.