A major hospital has evacuated patients and suspended all but emergency surgery.

In Manipur, locals coyly point out that, unlike many varieties of chilli, umorok burns while entering the body but not on the way out.

China is undergoing an awful wave of frenzied attacks on schoolchildren by knife-weilding men.

A Chinese gymnast, now living in Huntly, has been stripped of an Olympic bronze medal for being too young during the Sydney 2000 Olympics.

Being a large man taking up a space usually occupied by three Vietnamese, writer Walter Mason was obviously an easily noticed foreign visitor in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (aka Saigon).

More than a decade later, Kiwis are still patrolling the streets of East Timor.

Claims that IPL players were pressured to play after bombs exploded outside an Indian stadium are being investigated.

Former NZ Black Cap Simon Doull says it's not worth the risk to your life, after two bombs went off at a stadium in Bangalore where he was about to commentate an IPL match.

A compromise being negotiated by the IWC could save 5000 whales over the next ten years

A report claims 14 and 15-year-olds were employed at a Chinese supplier, working shifts from 7.45am until 10.55pm - for 52 cents an hour.