My first tea ceremony took place in the world's oldest hotel, Japan's Honshi Ryokan.

An inspired Kelly Lynch finds tension and excitement ringside in Bangkok.

As a journalist, Chris Pritchard found he had to use subterfuge to travel to North Korea.

The rice terraces set amid the swirling clouds around the Vietnamese hill station of Sapa are truly eye watering.

Changi is an oasis of greenery, writes Dionne Christian.

Rescuers with shovels and sniffer dogs combed through collapsed hillsides as the death toll rose to 89 from a strong earthquake in a farming region of northwest China.

"We have made efforts not to cause any leak to the outside, but we might have failed to do so," TEPCO admits a problem with Fukushima's Dai-ichi plant.

A strong earthquake in a dry, hilly farming area in western China knocked down power lines and damaged scores of homes, killing at least 75 and injuring nearly 300, the local government said.

A strong earthquake in western China knocked down power lines and damaged scores of homes, killing at least 47 people and injuring nearly 300, the local government said.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition won a solid majority in the upper house of parliament in elections, gaining control of both chambers and a mandate to press ahead with difficult economic reforms.