Captain Kirk, Fonzie and two legendary athletes walk into a Japanese restaurant and end up eating shredded and skewered bits of pig vagina. There is no punchline to this joke, it actually happened. And the reaction from the stars of NBC’s new travel-reality show “Better Late Than Never” (Tuesday at 10 p.m.) is […]
Congratulations, Trixia Maria Maraña! PH FIRST WIN. Miss Asia 2016 Trixia Maria Maraña gets a kiss from her court after winning the title last August 18 in India. Photo from Facebook/Miss Asia MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines’ own Trixia Maria Maraña won the title of Miss Asia 2016 last Thursday, August 18 in Kerala, India. […]
As the Olympics wind down, it’s customary to argue about which parts of the world performed best relative to expectations. The U.S. is a reasonable answer. Maybe Armenia. Probably not India. Definitely not Russia. Here’s a dark horse candidate: Southeast Asia. Despite a population over 600 million, Southeast Asia hasn’t seen a lot of Olympic […]
Congratulations, Trixia Maria Maraña! PH FIRST WIN. Miss Asia 2016 Trixia Maria Maraña gets a kiss from her court after winning the title last August 18 in India. Photo from Facebook/Miss Asia MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines’ own Trixia Maria Maraña won the title of Miss Asia 2016 last Thursday, August 18 in Kerala, India. […]
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Q. Professor Mahbubani, what is the big picture on Asia? KISHORE MAHBUBANI: The Western countries are in trouble. Europe is drifting. The United States is agonised because they might actually have Donald Trump as their next president. But it’s a mistake to think that just because the advanced, developed countries are going through these paroxysms, […]
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Asia markets were mixed on Thursday, as traders digested another round of Chinese data, as well as interest rate decisions from central banks in New Zealand and South Korea. The Japanese Nikkei 225 closed up 210.15 points, or 1.26 percent, at 16,852.35. South Korea’s Kospi added 16.38 points, or 0.84 percent, to 1,969.33, while Down […]
“Strategic bomber deployments ensure our ability to project power at a time and place of our choosing and develop strong interoperability with our regional allies and partners,” Robinson said. During an appearance in Australia on Tuesday, Robinson called on that country and others in the region to assert their rights to fly over the South […]
LONDON The euro slumped and shares and bonds rallied on Thursday as traders cheered aggressive stimulus measures by the European Central Bank which cut its main interest rate to zero and souped up its QE program to include corporate bonds. Markets had been wondering what Mario Draghi had left up his sleeve but any doubts […]
