BANGKOK: Aid groups arriving in the worst-hit areas of Myanmar said there was an urgent need for shelter, food and water ...

Japan’s parliament, the Diet, voted this week to make public high school free for all children. Tuition fees had been ...

The 7.7 magnitude quake, which hit around lunchtime on Friday, was the strongest to hit the Southeast Asian country in more than a century, toppling ancient pagodas and modern buildings alik ...

The first Buddhist churches of any kind in the country were built in the Bay Area in the early 1850s by Chinese migrant ...

A trailblazing architect and artist, Marion Mahony was among the first employees hired in Wright’s Chicago office and helped ...

Utah's governor intends to sign legislation making the state the first to ban fluoride in public water systems. Republican ...

Boston's mayoral race is heating up, with two campaigns expected to formally kick off this week and one challenger firing ...

Students at Olathang Primary School in Paro will no longer have to endure the harsh elements during assemblies or extracurricular activities, thanks to a new multipurpose hall funded by donors and the ...

Name changed to Tokyo Hogakuin Daigaku (Tokyo University of Law) and then to Chuo University (Chuo Daigaku). Divided into the ...

In an official apology issued by the U.S. government decades later, the federal government admitted the reason for the camps ...

In honor of his mother and others imprisoned at the internment camp, baseball player Dan Kwong has restored a diamond in the ...

Unlike in most nations, where janitors or custodians clean, Japanese students personally clean their classrooms, corridors, ...