A China tourism company has sued Paramount Pictures, the producer of the fourth Transformers film, and its Chinese partner for failing to include the logo of its resort in the film.Wulong Karst Tourism is asking for compensation of 180...
North Korea has released a video appeal by the parents of one of 12 waitresses that Pyongyang insists were kidnapped by South Korean agents from the restaurant where they were working in China.In the footage, uploaded Wednesday to the...
More than 50 years after her American solider father left South Korea, Jang Yeon-hee still longs to meet the parent who she has never known."Whenever I take the subway I see a lot of foreign tourists en route to...
China's tallest building, a 127-storey super skyscraper in downtown Shanghai costing 14.8 billion yuan (S$3.07 billion) to build, opened its first doors to the public on Wednesday.The opening ceremony for the Shanghai Tower's basement, which will house an exhibition...
KATHMANDU - Two European climbers have plunged to their deaths in China's Himalayas while two Asian trekkers have died of suspected altitude sickness in Nepal's Everest region in separate incidents, a tour operator and police said Wednesday.The Swiss and...
SOUTH KOREA - "It's a dying business," Gong In-Young said Wednesday as he watched US activists clear out the cages of the South Korean dog meat farm he has been running for the past decade.Close to 200 dogs, including...
MANILA - Philippine President Benigno Aquino vowed Wednesday to launch a military assault aimed at "neutralising" Abu Sayyaf Islamic militants who beheaded a Canadian hostage and are holding more than 20 other foreigners."Casualties are to be expected. But what...
SEOUL - North Korea is preparing to blow apart a replica of South Korea's presidential Blue House on an artillery range outside Pyongyang, in an apparent propaganda exercise, the South's military said Wednesday.An official with the Joint Chiefs of...
One can be a little upset if a flight to a dream beach holiday or honeymoon is delayed.But three plane passengers were so upset, they reportedly turned ballistic at China's Changsha airport after their flight was delayed due to...
In a bouffant blonde wig and outsize eyelashes, Yu Xiaoyang flamboyantly parades across a Shanghai stage, his fake breasts filling his skintight golden jumpsuit.Yu was among 20 contestants taking part in a cross-dressing competition in China's commercial hub."At work,...
