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Bride or brothel

Dec 9, 2014

The choice for duped Vietnamese women trafficked to China in thriving industry
High-tech toys attract adults as well as kids

Dec 9, 2014

With Christmas approaching, many children are filled with joyful expectations for this year’s presents. But today’s toys have become increasingly high-tech, attracting not only kids but adults as wel...
Little India riot: One year later

Dec 9, 2014

Every Sunday, from the living room of his third-floor Housing Board flat in Little India’s Buffalo Road, Singaporean Jumani Hori can see foreign workers playing cricket on a grass patch along Tekka L...
Colors of the mountain

Dec 2, 2014

Doi Tung in Chiang Rai province will be ablaze with color next weekend and for once it won’t just be the flowers in Mae Fah Luang Garden providing the stunning hues. Visitors will also be able to en...
Remembering fellow heroes

Dec 2, 2014

Researchers help shed new light on precious parts of shared WWII history between China and U.S. allies
Tales of a taxi ‘uncle’

Dec 2, 2014

On my fourth day as a taxi driver, I drove for six hours at night with just one five-minute toilet break. It was past midnight when I headed home and absent-mindedly got into the wrong lane at the j...
China cuts coal use for clear skies

Nov 18, 2014

Liu Jinming had a tough time handling the high-tech equipment and coping with the complex information on the computer screens in front of him. Liu, 50, has been working at the coal-fired heating pla...
Is that cake on display fresh?

Nov 18, 2014

There they sit, scrumptious looking baked goodies that tempt the taste buds. But just how fresh is that quiche or cake or pie or all manner of tantalizing treats behind glass displays? Housewife Ja...
We say white coffee, you say latte

Nov 18, 2014

“When I was young, I had to walk to school.” How many times did our parents grate us with tales of their old “hard times” and how lucky we were to have buses and cars? Well, guess what? We might ju...
Wisdom of experience

Nov 11, 2014

As the deadline for the drafting of the new constitution approaches, the political parties of Nepal persist in their old habits. They continue to treat the Constituent Assembly calendar with indiffer...
APEC: Common dream of prosperity

Nov 11, 2014

Behind the Asia-Pacific dream that president Xi Jinping proposed at the APEC CEO Summit on Sunday lies China’s wish for as large a proportion of the global population as possible to benefit from econ...
U.S., China to avoid worst-case scenario

Nov 11, 2014

It is not the bad bilateral bond between them but history that calls for China and the U.S. to build a new type of major power relations. With history beckoning, the way to handle China-U.S. relatio...
Navigating sexual harassment in Pakistan

Nov 11, 2014

I learned to drive when I was 16 years old. It was essentially my first foray into a world outside my rather conservative home setting. Insisting that I learn to drive the “correct” way, my father h...
Poor and hungry

Nov 4, 2014

The presidential office’s response to the release of a Social Weather Stations survey showing that 43 percent, or about 9.3 million Filipinos, considered themselves hungry, and 55 percent, or some 12...
Shifting focus on Xinjiang

Nov 4, 2014

Xinjiang’s image has been tainted with negative perceptions. No thanks to the merciless terror attacks and violent clashes carried out by some people from the autonomous region, Xinjiang natives are...