An afternoon snack menu for children in a kindergarten of Shanghai municipality, which offers vegetables to overweight children and milk and meat to underweight ones, has aroused a debate on its rationality, thepaper.cn reported. Differentiated meals out of health considerations The...
A picture of a cupboard with plates stuck precariously against the door is driving the internet mad. Readers in the Sinosphere were stumped when a Taiwanese by the name of Tseng Shao-Tsen uploaded the photo to a 'Bao Liao' Facebook...
SEOUL - South Korea has confirmed the country's first outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu virus and has ramped up quarantine measures in response, agriculture ministry officials said on Friday. The outbreaks occurred at two poultry farms in...
Thailand's monarchy is by many accounts the world's wealthiest. Its investment arm, the Crown Property Bureau, is overseen by a board appointed by the king. But the royal family also has private holdings and is supported in part by...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday said his meeting with Donald Trump - the first by a foreign leader - convinced him the US president-elect was someone "in whom I can have great confidence". "We were able to have a...
Here's why Japan badly needs the trade deal Trump promised to kill Four years after Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office with a promise to revive his country's moribund economy, that pledge is still largely unfilled. The latest blow came...
NEW YORK - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday he was confident of building trust with Donald Trump following a meeting in which he sought clarity on campaign rhetoric from the US president-elect that cast doubt on...
Fans of hairy crabs now have to shell out more for the delicacy - if they can get their hands on them. And changing weather patterns may be to blame. Suppliers in China, one of Singapore's main sources for the freshwater...
Seoul - South Korean President Park Geun-Hye will not be ready to appear before prosecutors until next week despite their demand to question her sooner over a snowballing political scandal, her lawyer said Thursday. Park, who would be the first sitting...
Davao, Philippines - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to follow in Russia's footsteps Thursday and pull his country out of the International Criminal Court, incensed at foreign criticism of his deadly drug war. Russia formally withdrew its signature to the...
