Asean-China relations are not what they seem. Deep down, there are signs of wariness and complacency. China is looking for new ways to engage the regional bloc.

Jean-Francois Janoueix and Jean-Michel Cazes have more in common than producing wine. They share a passion for old limestone and are banking on tourism to revive Bordeaux's crumbling cottages and dying villages.

Spicy food is the main course in restaurants in majority of Asian countries.

When I first arrived in Singapore, a Singaporean friend invited me for dinner. It was at an eatery in the East Coast which served the popular chilli crab.

While American children choose costumes for the customary "trick-or-treating" strolls through neighborhoods to collect candies and pumpkins get carved into Jack O'Lantern to decorate houses along with fake cobwebs, plastic spiders and bats, spooky movies fill theatres with ghoulish and ghastly tales.

Today it would hardly pass muster as a child's plaything, but the telescope Galileo used 400 years ago this week to peer into the heavens overturned the foundations of knowledge, changing our perception of the Universe and our place in it.

More is at stake for Asean and the world with latest evidence predicting alarming future consequences if appropriate action is not taken to combat global warming.

Chishui, located in China’s northwestern Guizhou province, is the city of waterfalls.

In the art world or in the natural world, green usually serves as a supporting colour for red, which blossoms and catches all the attention.

Breast cancer has long been perceived as a crisis that is exclusive only for the women, but in reality the disease can hurt the life of all members of the family.

Cinta, a baby orangutan found lost and alone in a vast Borneo palm oil plantation, now clings to a tree at a sanctuary for the great apes, staring intently at dozens of tourists.

A little thing can bring back to life many "dust-laden" memories. To keep the memory fresh is what a collector does.