Herald on Sunday's Michael Burgess joins the 'civilized spectators' at the Asian Games.

Chinese Muslims are sons of the Silk Road, says Jim Eagles.

Set in Mumbai, Saraswati Park is a vivid portrait of intergenerational family dynamics in an ever-changing, modern day India.

The number of Kiwis travelling to Southeast Asia for cosmetic surgery has soared in the past year.

Welcome to another average day of news in China.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and actor Leonardo DiCaprio are an unlikely pairing of figureheads in the fight to save the tiger.

What the international media is saying about North Korea's latest act of aggression.

New Zealand is adding its voice to international outrage over North Korea's artillery attack on South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island.

A cruise is a gentle way to discover the bustle of China, writes Pamela Wade.

Rescuers are racing to reach 28 men trapped in a coal mine in southern China.

The Yemen beach volleyball team have blamed a loss at the Asian Games on bikini-clad Chinese cheerleaders.

New Zealand golfer Mark Brown is quietly confident of upsetting his more fancied rivals and capturing the Hong Kong Open.

England's good form of 2010, winning seven of 10 Tests, comes with a mixed report card.

A competitor in the golf event at the Asian Games had a first round to forget shooting a whopping 58 shots over par.

Bill Clinton is to appear in a comedy film about the debauched antics of a group of friends in Thailand, according to reports.

Five months after Irish No 8 Jamie Heaslip brazenly kneed the All Blacks captain in the back, McCaw barely recalls the incident ahead of presumably their next encounter