TOKYO: All is calm at Satoshi Yamazaki’s rice farm, with its freshly planted rows of vivid-green seedlings, but a row over the cost of the staple in Japan is threatening to deal the government a blow ...

KUWAIT: The Chinese Cultural Center in Kuwait, in collaboration with the Old Kuwaiti Crafts Society, hosted a vibrant cultural event titled “An Evening of Arabic and Chinese Calligraphy”, celebrating ...

LOS ANGELES: Protests against Donald Trump’s harsh immigration policies spread Wednesday across the United States despite a military-backed crackdown in Los Angeles and a threat by the Republican ...

A Beijing auction house has sold a four-foot-tall sculpture of a viral plush toy character for more than $150,000, as global demand for the Chinese-designed Labubu dolls reaches fever pitch. The ...

MANILA: Philippine senators were sworn in Tuesday as jurors in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, with the newly convened court moving to immediately hear a motion to dismiss the ...

KUWAIT: Kuwait Fire Force announced Tuesday, that seven of its teams controlled a fire that broke out in a room in a basement used as a storage area in the Shuwaikh Industrial area, with no ...

KUWAIT: Minister of State for Municipal and Housing Affairs, Abdullatif Al-Meshari, Minister of Public Works Dr Noura Al-Mushaan, and Minister of Electricity, Water, and Renewable Energy Dr Subaih ...

KUWAIT: The Italian Embassy in Kuwait hosted a concert at the American University of Kuwait (AUK) Auditorium, titled “A Musical Journey Through Classical and Contemporary Italian Melodies,” as part of ...

The Los Angeles special screening of “Ballerina” took place at the TCL Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California on Tuesday, featuring a star-studded lineup led by Keanu Reeves. “Ballerina”, a spin-off ...

As a reddish dawn broke over the tiny, coral-rich Greek archipelago of Fournoi, Manolis Mytikas’s wooden fishing boat slowly glided home, his nets almost empty. The modest catch nevertheless quickly ...

KUWAIT: In the presence of His Highness Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Prime Minister of Kuwait, and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, and ...

ABUJA: Flash flooding in north-central Nigeria last week killed more than 200 people, the Niger state humanitarian commissioner said Tuesday, while hundreds more remain missing and are feared dead.