Most Australians only know three things about Christmas Island: it has lots of crabs, a notorious detention centre and is closer to Bali than our mainland.

Memorial Day 2025 is in just over a month, on Monday, May 26. Many people confuse Memorial Day with Veterans’ Day, but they’re completely different. “The holiday was created to honor the many American ...

Sarong Vit-Kory was born in 1982 in the Khao I Dang refugee camp in Thailand. Four years later, her family resettled in ...

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President & PM by their own actions have delivered a slap to the Sinhala Buddhists. Their action suggests they wish to ignore ...

Easter Monday would have been Queen Elizabeth II’s 99th birthday, a milestone that invites reflection on her extraordinary ...

The former imperial capital is both the symbol of Japan's temples and geishas and of globalized overtourism. And yet, blocks ...

A group of more than 270 some men and women, who were rescued from forced labor in scam compounds months earlier but remain in detention in Myanmar, attempted a mass escape Sunday from a guarded ...

One of the world’s most populous cities, Tokyo brings together many of the elements that make Japan so popular with travelers ...

Photograph by Alvin Huang, Getty Images Senso-ji temple is an ancient Buddhist temple located in the Asakusa neighborhood of ...

Buddhist monks chanted verses, praying for the deceased, who had been one of them. One monk, Ashin Javanar Linkhara, then held his dead colleague’s robe to his forehead and whispered the phrase ...

The Buddhist celebration is unique to the Shan people of northeastern Myanmar, hundreds of thousands of whom have moved to Thailand during their country's decades of dictatorship and turmoil.