History unfolds on the atmospheric streets of old Kyoto during this grand costume parade.

It's Japan's best-loved game and now in its ninth incarnation and third decade, it might finally be catching on in the West. Giles Richards reports.

A nationwide campaign starting today wants to immediately halt sales of NZ farms to foreigners until there has been a robust public debate.

Penang's Hard Rock Hotel, the third of its kind in Southeast Asia, emerged from the gutted shell of the old Casuarina.

Winston Aldworth fails to drive a hard bargain in his quest for a local shirt.

The International Cricket Council is hoping to send an invitational World 11 to play fixtures in Pakistan.

The Taleban have stoned a young couple to death in Afghanistan for 'infidelity'.

From the humble beginnings of butter chicken, curries are now a popular part of the Western menu.

Getting more Bangkok for your buck is fraught with pitfalls for rookie westerners.

Many of Tashkent's streets are built on an impressively generous scale - a legacy of the Soviet era.

Jim Eagles travels a well worn path through a historic landscape and finds plenty of remnants from its fascinating past still in place.