Move over Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore. Seoul is emerging as Asia's new fashion showcase, with the world's top luxury firms seeking to cash in on the regional trend-setting popularity of South Korean pop culture.
At the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, an Elvis impersonator in a black jumpsuit croons as a couple walks down the aisle. Pastor Jean-Claude Chevalme pronounces them man and wife. All in 10 minutes flat.
As I prepared to fly to central Europe recently there was a wonderful, vivid picture I could not expel from my mind.
In April, when a sandstorm-the strongest in more than a decade in China-raged through the country's northern parts, at least two men said they felt little of it.
Nearly a dozen elderly men and women sat in a circle shaking maracas and beating bongo drums while three young women musicians hummed a song. After the song had ended, one of the older women asked guitarist Wang Weijia to create a song about a grandmother and her granddaughter.
Zhu Caiqin spent her entire childhood in a forest of the Hinggan Mountains in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province.
Afghan forces clashed with Taliban fighters in Kunduz on Tuesday as the government launched an operation to retake the center of the northern city, the first provincial capital to fall to the insurgents since their movement was toppled 14 years ago.
The United States and Britain have restricted movements of their diplomats in Bangladesh and cited "reliable" information that more Westerners will be targeted after gunmen from Islamist militants said they killed an Italian aid worker in Dhaka.
Thailand's ousted prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who was pushed from office more than a year ago, hit back at her opponents on Tuesday with her own lawsuit.
The worst violence to hit Central African Republic's capital in a year further deteriorated on Monday as more than 500 inmates escaped from a prison and militia fighters looted the offices of international aid organizations, officials said. The death toll from several days of clashes reached 42 including a teenage boy who was decapitated.
Rescuers were searching on Tuesday for about 20 people feared missing after a boat capsized and sank in a rain-swollen river in remote northeast India, a government official said. The motorized ferry was taking about 100 villagers to a popular boat race in Assam state when it hit a bridge pylon and overturned on the Kolohi river late on Monday, a top district administrator said.
Residents and medics said airstrikes by helicopters flying from Saudi Arabia killed 30 civilians in a Yemeni village on Sunday, but Saudi authorities dismissed the accounts as "totally false".
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