SEA Games 2023: 10 of the best and worst moments
As the 32nd SEA Games drew to a close, The Straits Times’ men on the ground Deepanraj Ganesan, David Lee and Jonathan Wong relived the highs and lows of the action in Cambodia.
American Born Chinese: An ‘Avengers’ of Asian talent and mythological heroes
Directed by film-maker Destin Daniel Cretton and actress Lucy Liu, it follows shy Chinese-American teenager Jin Wang, who is trying to fit in at school when he meets a foreign…
Australian campaigns aim to lure back Chinese tourists
Prior to the pandemic, China was Australia’s biggest visitor source market, with 1.4 million tourists in 2019 who spent a total of A$12.4 billion.
Visitors to Japan rise to nearly 2 million in April after China eases travel curbs
However, arrivals were still down 33 per cent from April 2019, before pandemic travel curbs were adopted the next year.
Chinese ministry aims to improve domestic tourism
Some companies have been accused of offering unreasonably low-priced tours, while some travelers have complained about tour guides insulting them, or pressuring them to buy things…
Enhanced Hong Kong int’l airport transfer service eyed for Greater Bay Area travellers
The new connections will allow passengers going to and from ten ports in the GBA using SkyPier to transfer at the airport without the need to go through immigration procedures,…
Postcard from Phnom Penh: Tuol Sleng a reminder of Cambodia’s painful past
Now known as Tuol Sleng (hill of poisonous trees in Khmer), it is a genocide museum that chronicles the massacre that happened under the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979.
BTS medal hits record sales for Korea Minting; 2nd edition to follow
The medal was jointly launched by Komsco and the band's label, Big Hit Music, last year in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the band's debut this June.
3rd generation K-pop girl group Twice still adored in Japan
Tickets to the nine-member group’s two-day concert at the Yanmar Stadium in Osaka, Japan were sold out.
Japanese artists bring laughter to Vietnamese audiences
Local audiences for the first time have seen the Japanese ancient comedy art called Kyogen performed by father and son artists Ogasawara Tadashi and Ogasawara Hiroaki.