Following the path hewn by Lincoln Tan's groundbreaking column in the NZ Herald last week announcing to New Zealand that Asian men do like boobies as much as other men, perhaps a space has opened up to point out other commonalities between "Asians" and humanity in general.

Sure, the urgent external and internal economic imperative for New Zealand and the media to engage with "Asia" is cr...

The fall sale of the Indian Art exhibition, beginning Sep 14, will feature 21 lots of Indian miniatures from a private single-owner collection. The miniatures, from the Punjab Hills schools, include a series of illustrations from the 'Sunder Shringar', circa 1780, featuring Radha and Krishna (estimated at $10,000-15,000 each) and paintings from the 'Harivamsa' or life of Krishna, circa 1820...

Previous studies had revealed that 70 percent children of alcoholics develop compulsive behaviour about either alcohol, drugs, food, sex, work or gambling, while a half ended up marrying alcoholics.

According to the new study by medical journal 'Priory' that reviewed existing data on crime, abuse and alcoholism, the children of alcoholics were four times more likely to be addicted to dr...

According to contactmusic.com, Shields is set to play a sex therapist in the new series about surgery titled 'Nip/Tuck'. The actress, who had tried Botox in the past, says cosmetic enhancement is not something she would be comfortable with.

She says: 'I tried, like, Botox in my forehead. I got so claustrophobic. I would get claustrophobia if I had breast implants. I'd be like, 'Get t...

Now he needed her to schedule an oil change. So from Guadalajara, Ching dialed Hennessy Lexus in Chamblee.

It's the role Hsia has played since age 9, when her ethnically Chinese family moved to Atlanta from Korea.

She is a member of Generation 1.5 — a term popularized years ago in California's Asian community as a way of describing immigrants who arrive in America as childre...

Less than two months after parliament took a revolutionary decision, saying the king's first-born would inherit the crown irrespective of sex, a Nepali weekly has reported wife-battering by King Gyanendra's son-in-law Raj Bahadur Singh, a commoner who became a millionaire after the royal alliance.

According to the Jana Aastha weekly, Singh, who married Princess Prerana three years ago i...

Throughout the country, municipal governments are thinking about whether to fine landlords for renting to illegal immigrants.

Local laws that target landlords will exacerbate the segregation of illegal Latino and Asian immigrants into enclaves where assimilation is slowed. It will impose an unfair burden on landlords. And the verification process will either burden citizens by requiring t...

The lovelorn Yoshimura signed up last year with Rakuen Korea, a Japanese-Korean matchmaking service, to find her own Korean bachelor. And she is hardly alone. More than 6,400 female clients have signed up with the company, which says its popularity has skyrocketed since 2004, when Winter Sonata became the first of many hot Korean television dramas to hit Japan. Even in Shinjuku ni-chome, Tokyo...

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Thin and gorgeous in a slinky black dress, Mikimoto pearls and a low-slung diamond Tiffany pendant, 26-year-old Kazumi Yoshimura already has looks, cash and accessories. There's only one more thing this single Japanese woman says she needs to find eternal bliss -- a Korean man.