Professor Kishore Mahbubani, Dean and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy, National University of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy speaks during a press conference at the UNISEF Conference for East Asia and Pacific Islands on Imp…... [more »]

Date: 6 January 2009, 2:47 am

UNICEF EAPRO Regional Director, Anupama Rao Singh speaks during a press conference at the UNISEF Conference for East Asia and Pacific Islands on Impact of the Economic Crisis on Children in Singapore January 6.(AFP/Roslan Rahman)... [more »]

Date: 6 January 2009, 2:47 am

Former police officer Yukio Shige stands on the sheer cliffs of Tojinbo, one of the most known suicide spots in Japan(AFP/File/Harumi Ozawa)... [more »]

Date: 5 January 2009, 9:30 pm

File photo of beer drinkers in central London. As people trudged back to work on Monday bloated from the excesses of Christmas and New Year partying, British scientists warned that buying "detox" products may do nothing to help them recover…... [more »]

Date: 5 January 2009, 7:12 am

A man stands at a bus stop in Manchester in 2006. As people trudged back to work on Monday bloated from the excesses of Christmas and New Year partying, British scientists warned that buying "detox" products may do nothing to help them reco…... [more »]

Date: 5 January 2009, 7:12 am

A patron at a pub drinks a beer. As people trudged back to work on Monday bloated from the excesses of Christmas and New Year partying, British scientists warned that buying "detox" products may do nothing to help them recover.(AFP/File/Nic…... [more »]

Date: 5 January 2009, 4:46 am

Zero-emission vehicles may not be a novel concept for long. Japanese carmakers are racing to develop electric cars(AFP)... [more »]

Date: 5 January 2009, 2:30 am

Mitsubishi Motors' electric vehicle "iMiEV" in Tokyo. As mass-produced electric cars come closer to reality, their makers are trying to polish the image of what experts say could be a hard sell in the current recession(AFP/File/Toru Yam…... [more »]

Date: 5 January 2009, 2:30 am

A Han Chinese tourist snaps pictures of a young Tibetan Buddhist monk carrying water at the Ganden Sumtseling Monastery in Shangrila. China has launched a campaign to attract three million tourists to the Himalayan region this year, after deadly unre…... [more »]

Date: 5 January 2009, 2:22 am

Harrison Ford look-alike Gijs Kennis waits for celebrities to arrive for the Australian premier of 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' in Sydney in 2008. Major Hollywood studios defied the global economic meltdown to rake in…... [more »]

Date: 4 January 2009, 8:18 pm