For Chinese tourists who have visited Japan, what has lingered in their minds after their return is not only the cherry blossom at the foot of Mount Fuji, but also the electric toilet seats and rice cookers.
New model of growth isn't just about lower GDP, it's about applying a sound change
Wealthy heiress Stephanie Ho may be something of a fashionista in her spare time, but these days she prefers discussing culinary matters in her role as the founder of two organic-restaurant brands, Green & Safe and Qimin Hotpot.
When Mary Barra started her first job on a General Motors assembly line in 1980, the 18-year-old engineering student was greeted with catcalls and wolf whistles each day from male autoworkers unused to seeing women in their workplace. In January 2014, Barra became the first woman to run GM.
Among sweeping vistas of snow-capped mountains, virgin Himalayan forest and terraced meadows sits the office of Shangrila Farm, launched by New Yorker Sahra Malik and her sister Alia in 2008.
There are fears about China's growth prospects given the recent bad news about weak credit demand, high real interest rates and tight liquidity. But we at Standard Chartered see three reasons for at least some optimism:
UN chief Ban Ki-moon called for an immediate cease-fire in Yemen as he began the hunt for a new peace envoy to the war-torn country, where al-Qaida is expanding its territory.
An Australian court fined two French tourists A$4,000 ($3,100) each on Friday for animal cruelty after they burned a quokka, a small native marsupial, on an island off the west coast.
The SpaceX supply ship arrived at the International Space Station on Friday morning, delivering the world's first espresso machine designed exclusively for astronauts.
Millions of Jakarta commuters will have to struggle through the world's most congested traffic for almost another decade, authorities believe, and they may have to wait even longer if $4 billion worth of new railway projects fail to work out as planned.
Grieving relatives joined political and religious leaders on Friday for a somber German state memorial service for the 150 victims of last month's Germanwings crash in the French Alps.
Turkish Airlines' CEO said pilots may not be as prone to destructive behavior like that of the Germanwings pilot believed to have intentionally crashed a flight last month - if only they get married.
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