Each year, monks from Shinguji, a temple in the town of Yao, Osaka Prefecture that was founded in the late 17th century, hold a massive funeral service. Last year’s ceremony was to celebrate and put ...

Introduction In 1549, Christianity was introduced to Japan by Francis Xavier. It spread rapidly amid the chaos of the Sengoku ...

Officials had received information about a potential airborne attack as hundreds had gathered in Chaung U township ...

Thailand’s government declared a year of official mourning for civil servants following the passing of Her Majesty Queen ...

Tucked away in their hammocks beneath the dripping rain-forest canopy, the Viet Cong guerrillas could hardly believe their ears. Out of the night sky came an ominous, warbling whine, like bagpipes ...

A three-year-old girl became the sole survivor of a nursery massacre in Thailand - a tragedy that left 36 dead and a nation ...

Queen Sirikit was married to King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Thailand’s longest-reigning monarch, for more than six decades until ...

While he set out to create a traditional Buddhist retreat, a looser version was gaining traction elsewhere. The quarterback ...

At least 24 people were killed and 47 wounded while protesting against Myanmar's military government after an army motorised ...

On major feast days — such as All Saints’ Day, All Souls’ Day, the Feast of the Vietnamese Martyrs, the Month of the Rosary, ...

Thailand's Queen Mother Sirikit, who brought glamour and elegance to a postwar revival in the country's monarchy and who, in ...