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Legend has it that the Arctic Inuit have hundreds of ways to say “snow.” Linguists now tell us that this is just another urban myth. It’s...

William Beer, Director Information & Cyber Security Practice at PwC talks about the McAfee 2012 Country Cyber Defence Rankings - and in p...

What do you get if you cross a spider with a silkworm? Super socks. Don’t get it? Frankly, neither do we but it’s a fact. A Japanese sock...

South Korean researchers, ever striving to be top in science, have cloned a glow-in-the-dark dog. The little beagle was engineered by ins...

Wither cash? And while we’re asking, wither wallets? If the South Koreans have their way, the answer will be the way of the dinosaur. Sou...

This installment of Postcards from Asia is brought to you by the letters J and K and the number 1 with a bullet. That’s J for J pop and K...

Should monks and modernity mix? This is the question being asked around Henan province now that the head abbot of the Shaolin monastery h...

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. Confucius said that. And fifty years ago, kong zi, as he is known in China, w...

Traditionally, Japan has had two major religions: Shinto and Buddhism with Buddhism supplying the Shinto practitioners with the comfort o...

Is the afterlife, like, the best vacation spot ever or is it just your standard bureaucracy with a rigid power structure and officials ra...