Most Chinese tourists carry instant noodles and packets of pickles with them while travelling, in case they don't take to the food in the countries they visit. But there is one place where such precautions may not be necessary. And that is South Korea, as Korean restaurants are now quite popular in China.

Soaring rice prices in recent months have triggered panic buying in places such as Penang and Viet Nam, leaving empty supermarket shelves where bags of rice used to sit.

You have to spend only a day in Tokyo to understand why the gastronomic bible Michelin guide chose this city for its maiden Asian venture last year.

India’s new generation of directors have the spunk. Most of them are well-educated, extremely articulate, in tune with the latest trends in world cinema and quite comfortable with the new climate of professionalism in Bollywood.

Malaysia's political leaders are rushing to set up blogs and increase their postings on existing ones after recent polls showed how effective the Internet has been.

When Chinese conductor Yu Long stepped on the stage in Vatican City's spacious Paul VI Audience Hall packed with 7,000 on Wednesday evening (7 May), he knew he was going to make history.

With fewer women born and more of them marrying foreigners, a lot of men may be left feeling lonely.

After countless names have been thrown around the World Wide Web and smeared with nastiness, many have expressed fear about people blogging about them.

Call it an attention deficiency or a sudden mood swing, fashion is tricky business. It never ever stays the same, changing with every season, year and generation.

Nur Islam, arrived at the Kutubkhali garage, near Jatrabari, at 2pm to pick up his rented cycle rickshaw--a three-wheeled carriage which can carrry up to three people--for his second shift of the day.