Asians seek to break western literary stranglehold
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UBUD, Indonesia  - Indonesian author Vira Safitri is only 18, but already has two novels under her belt.
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âA Bloody Aria,â by the Korean director Won Shin-yun, is a sort of Asian âDeliverance.â
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The authors of Empire, the It book of postmodern philosophy, have a new plan to save the world
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With 6,000 characters to memorize, Westerners shudder at the idea reading even the most basic street signs and instructions in Chinese. A new set of brain images shows why: Reading English-style alphabets and Chinese characters use very different parts of the brain...
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East Asian nations must pull together to boost their global stature but Australia and New Zealand should be excluded due to their Western ideology, former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad said.
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The broad extent of the decline underlined Asiaâs deepening connection to global financial markets.
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New York, December 14, 2004âTwo prominent writers and defenders of imprisoned journalists in China were taken from their homes yesterday, Monday, December 13, and interrogated about articles they had written for overseas Internet sites.
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With China's rise looming large over Asia, building an alliance with the continent's other fast-growing giant, India, has turned into a mantra for Japanese policymakers.
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Economic growth is booming in countries like India and China where American popular culture does not dominate.
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How Asia's booming economies could make you rich.
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ÂOne Way or Another: Asian American Art NowÂ surveys Asian-American art today, a generation after the first waves of multiculturalism and identity politics broke across the art world.
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The influential filmmakers create a $285 million fund for Asian films, hoping to expand audiences and maybe save some money too
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Writers struggling to find a publisher are taking the high-tech, grass-roots approach.
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Asian giants and economic rivals India and China are locked in battle to secure stakes in oil fields and blocks in the new energy haven of West Africa, officials and analysts here say.
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The west is stripping the developing world of its talent. The pressures of ageing populations and the need to be at the frontier of technological change has meant skilled labour is in short supply, so raiding
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Yoshiaki Murakami has become a lightening rod for public ire at JapanÂs tilt toward American-style capitalism.
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A new study reveals that cultural factors influence how dyslexia manifests itself by finding that the disorder affects the brains of Chinese and English speakers differently.